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<blockquote data-quote="Jiengleberreies" data-source="post: 2172896" data-attributes="member: 730452">This is the beginning of my ideas for a Jewish Psychology.I was wondering why G-d would give us competitiveness, and I realized that it is most likely connected to the drive to perform that competitiveness creates.Competition between individual humans , when placed in a Jewish society, will drive them to compete to perform the most commandments, and to find the best way to serve G-d.Also, the human identification with groups, and our emotional attachment to the perceived worth of our groups, is what drives us to make Israel as ideal as possible. We are given our group ideals by G-d, and we are driven to make Israel reach those ideals, to satisfy our self-esteem by thinking we are #1.When things like competition and group identification go bad, it is because the rest of the mitzvot are not being performed. The other mitzvot have to be performed to keep society from making our natures backfire, like if our society idealizes stupid things (which makes us compete not in serving G-d, but driving the best car).perry: what an a&#039;ssholeJ.P. : could you explain a little bettertrish:&nbsp; i didn&#039;t say it was limited to Jews, but i think it&#039;s purpose is for Jews.trish: i didn&#039;t say anything about a jewish flavor either.&nbsp; smh</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jiengleberreies, post: 2172896, member: 730452"] This is the beginning of my ideas for a Jewish Psychology. I was wondering why G-d would give us competitiveness, and I realized that it is most likely connected to the drive to perform that competitiveness creates. Competition between individual humans , when placed in a Jewish society, will drive them to compete to perform the most commandments, and to find the best way to serve G-d. Also, the human identification with groups, and our emotional attachment to the perceived worth of our groups, is what drives us to make Israel as ideal as possible. We are given our group ideals by G-d, and we are driven to make Israel reach those ideals, to satisfy our self-esteem by thinking we are #1. When things like competition and group identification go bad, it is because the rest of the mitzvot are not being performed. The other mitzvot have to be performed to keep society from making our natures backfire, like if our society idealizes stupid things (which makes us compete not in serving G-d, but driving the best car). perry: what an a'sshole J.P. : could you explain a little better trish: i didn't say it was limited to Jews, but i think it's purpose is for Jews. trish: i didn't say anything about a jewish flavor either. smh [/QUOTE]

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