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| Anger VS outrage | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 13 2016, 03:32 PM (118 Views) | |
| SorenL | Oct 13 2016, 03:32 PM Post #1 |
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Anger and outrage can seem alike, but they are in fact two totally different states. Anger is not a deadly sin. It can be good, and it can be bad, but it all depends on the context and intensity of the state. Whether anger is an appropriate response to a given situation, or a catastrophic one, all depends on what's actually going on, and the degree of anger involved. This is what will determine the relative righteousness of your anger. The balance of the state and the situation. Outrage, on the other hand, isn't really anger. It sure can look like it, though. And outrage often appears to be, not only anger, but righteous anger. The best kind of anger there is. Therein lies the great cosmic chasm between the two states: Outrage appears as righteous anger. As an anger in service of the good. But it isn't. In this case, it is in fact the exact opposite. Anger is always what it seems, because when it shows up, it is simply there to deal with. With outrage, there is always an ulterior motive. Maybe the outraged person really is angry at some level? I don't know. But if he is, it is not the sort of anger that he puts on display via his outrage. In his outrage, he seeks to make a point out of his anger, that point always being that he is righteous because he is angry. Thereby he makes a display of his anger, to make sure that everybody gets just how angry (and righteous) he is. To display anger, and to deliberately make a show of it, is never a healthy way to manage anger in any situation (that matters), because you'll only bring fuel for the fire by introducing the unnecessary element of you showing off your private emotional state, into a, perhaps, already heated situation. If it is indeed anger at all, I would therefore say that outrage is probably one of the worst forms of it. It always seek to appear as the best kind. It will always try to persuade you that it is real. But it's fake. It is the anger of an actor. Good anger, on the other hand... It may be intense, and maybe even explosive - but it will make the situation calm down. Such is the true power of anger - and that is what the outraged cannot understand. |
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| Oscar | Oct 13 2016, 03:58 PM Post #2 |
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Tack Sören! Water will love this. |
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| Ardy | Oct 13 2016, 06:01 PM Post #3 |
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Anger, in it's outrage format is mostly the domain of the young. There is something almost holy about seeing something you are sure is wrong and moving to outrage about it. I used to do this often as a teenager and early 20's. As a committed socialist in my youth, there was plenty to get UP about. Vietnam war, atomic bombs, women's rights, authority figures who never fitted my idea of what was right. Looking back I can't imagine anything that got me going in those days that would even raise an eyebrow these days. But it is easy to see outrage, just hit the horn when someone cuts you off in a car and see how they fire up. Righteous indignation to the maximum! |
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| SorenL | Oct 14 2016, 01:03 AM Post #4 |
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Outrage can be many different things: To the young it's often just feistiness, and being feisty when your young is by no means a bad thing in itself. It seems to me that outrage is often the more toxic, the older the person. Many older leftwingers, for example, seem to conceal a deep well of general bitterness and resentment in their outrage in a way, that makes me wonder if they even enjoy being alive at all. The common denominator of all outrage is, that it is anger that is made into a social signifier of sorts. Young people are excused, because they have probably yet to realize how fundamentally unimportant it is, what other people think of them. Older people (35+) really should know better. Suffering perpetual indignation and building a social identity around it will not only make you miserable: It will attract other miserable people as well, and all will work together to perpetuate the cycle. Edited by SorenL, Oct 14 2016, 01:09 AM.
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| Ardy | Oct 15 2016, 04:28 PM Post #5 |
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Hi Soren, hope you are getting some sleep? I see this level of deep anger and disillusionment within old socialists and I agree it is ugly but is it outrage? My take on outrage is that it is the outburst of the ego acting in a way it absolutely loves. Everything out of control. The Oxford dictionary describes it this way: 1 ▸ a Lack of moderation, intemperance; extravagance, exaggeration. ME–L16. ▸ b Foolhardiness; presumption. LME–M16. 2 Violent or disorderly action or behaviour; tumult of passion, disorder; violence of language, insolence; (an) uproar, a loud cry. arch. ME. Whoever indulges in this level of anger, whether old or young it is normally for their own pleasure, driven by the ego of course. As you suggest most young people will grow out of this adult temper tantrum. The tragedy of it is that most people cower before it and do not stand up to it. |
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