What do you think is there in the top of the pyramid?

[A New Day]

 

[Eudaimonist]

eudaimonia

Verena von Pfetten (09-4-08). "5 Things Happy People Do". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2010-06-05. "But researchers now believe that eudaimonic well-being may be more important. Cobbled from the Greek eu ("good") and daimon ("spirit" or "deity"), eudaimonia means striving toward excellence based on one's unique talents and potential—Aristotle considered it to be the noblest goal in life. In his time, the Greeks believed that each child was blessed at birth with a personal daimon embodying the highest possible expression of his or her nature. One way they envisioned the daimon was as a golden figurine that would be revealed by cracking away an outer layer of cheap pottery (the person's baser exterior). The effort to know and realize one's most golden self—"personal growth," in today's vernacular—is now the central concept of eudaimonia, which has also come to include continually taking on new challenges and fulfilling one's sense of purpose in life."

 

[znr]

Da heeee da haaaa, Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk yeeehawwww

 

[SolomonVII]

I would say spirituality, which is the ultimate form of creativity, and fulfillment.

 

[seeingeyes]

Love. Or the ability to put your own pyramid on the back burner while you help someone else cook up theirs.

 

[Autumnleaf]

A comfy couch, potato chips and mountain dew.

 

[Ana the Ist]

It's one of those radiant eye-thingys, right? Like on a dollar bill?

 

[elephunky]

Bananas

 

[SolomonVII]

A comfy couch, potato chips and mountain dew.

That is on the bottom.

 

[Eudaimonist]

It's one of those radiant eye-thingys, right? Like on a dollar bill?

All your radiant eye-thingies belong to us.
-- Your friendly neighborhood Illuminati

 

[Ana the Ist]

All your radiant eye-thingies belong to us.
-- Your friendly neighborhood Illuminati

Ahhh...the Japanese and their lackadaisical translations.

The classics never go outta style.

 

[PsychoSarah]

At the top of the pyramid is 1 lonely individual regretting getting that far without anyone else to share it with. Oh wait, wrong pyramid.

 

[seeingeyes]

At the top of the pyramid is 1 lonely individual regretting getting that far without anyone else to share it with. Oh wait, wrong pyramid.

Is that the food pyramid you were thinking of?

 

[pyramid33]

The pyramid is bunch of lofty waste of time.

Consider the washington monument, the monument at rome, lofty. God is against lofty.


The washington monument is called the lofty pyramid. Watch Angels and Demons.

 

[pyramid33]

Isaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

May the fire of God cleanse the righteous in His eye's.

 

[FireDragon76]

That hierarchical pyramid seems more influenced by a certain cultural- and gender-specific experience (white western secular males). It assumes human happiness is focused around the "self", and things like "mastery" are not necessarily important to everyone (I think this is more of a male concern).

 

[SolomonVII]

That hierarchical pyramid seems more influenced by a certain cultural- and gender-specific experience (white western secular males). It assumes human happiness is focused around the "self", and things like "mastery" are not necessarily important to everyone (I think this is more of a male concern).

The babes aren't much into talent, creativity and fulfillment?


What is the oppsite of mastery? .....
mystery perhaps?

 

[seeingeyes]

The babes aren't much into talent, creativity and fulfillment?


What is the oppsite of mastery? .....
mystery perhaps?

Wouldn't you like to know?

 

[SolomonVII]

Wouldn't you like to know?

I am being serious.

Y'all really are pretty much a mystery to me.

 

[Eudaimonist]

That hierarchical pyramid seems more influenced by a certain cultural- and gender-specific experience (white western secular males). It assumes human happiness is focused around the "self", and things like "mastery" are not necessarily important to everyone (I think this is more of a male concern).

It is a human concern. Perhaps males have championed this cause, but that doesn't mean that females are excluded. If I were a woman, I would be insulted by the claim that self-actualization is the exclusive concern of males, and I know plenty of self-actualizing women who would agree with me.

Granted, not all cultures nourish a desire for self-actualization, but that makes it no less a human concern.


eudaimonia,

Mark