"Your perfection will be your downfall"

Ok, i need some help with a quote that has troubled me a lot...

What would you think if someone out of the blue told you "Your perfection will be your downfall"?

Is ones "perfection" (as seen from anothers point of view) a lack?

Is it a virtue when kept for him/herself and a curse when shared with others?

Is it really ones problem or a reflection of the other persons problem(s)?



Your thoughts on this would be valuable for me.

Thanks!



PS: Note that perfection is relative from person to person. I'm not suggesting that the person receiving that comment believes is perfect.


Edited by Flipper - 31-Aug-2007 at 05:21

The person who said that, obviously was jeolous, and lacking any flaws to point out resentfully made the quoted remark.

Heading towards perfection is like approaching to  the asymptope

Originally posted by Zaitsev If one strives for perfection, can one be perfect?

Perfection is like infinity-impossible for a naturally imperfect being to achieve.

If a person has achieved "perfection," then what they've actually achieved is great success-and probably great arrogance, at least if they consider themselves to have achieved perfection. Or constant overestimation if others do, and ego inflation by society. The end result is a successful, but arrogant and delusional individual, at least to a degree.

And more of humanity's mistakes and cruelties are caused by some form of arrogance then perhaps any other personality trait in history.

Therfore, what you get in a "perfect" person is a bundle of power, skill, and problem-solving capacity run by a unrealistic, self-righteous, and/or selectively moronic intelligence. not a good combination.

this is true, but the very definition of "perfection" seems an impossibility. and individual idea of "prefection" is still too limited, generally, to be truly considered "perfection."

Originally posted by pekau Heading towards perfection is like approaching to  the asymptope

or like trying to set everything over denominator zero...

DANGER WILL ROBINSON! UNDEFINED! DANGER!

YES! the joke worked....

on another note. the definition of "alive" is constantly growing. therefore, a "perfect" being is an inanimate one. not even a computer, since computers routinely make mistakes.

...essentially, there is only one moment in time where everything is perfect.

Death.

At that point, everyone is equal, in power, morality, and every other respect.

There is no growth, and a person has at that point achieved everything they will ever achieve in their life.

And they have reached maximum entropy for their intelligence, and maximum entropy-the moment of such disorder that everything is perfectly ordered, of such chaos that there is only nothing-is more or less the only "perfect" thing in existence.


Edited by TheARRGH - 09-Oct-2007 at 02:04

"Perfection" is based upon perception. One man's "perfect" is absurd to another. 

Originally posted by Ponce de Leon I know I am perfect in every single way. And I havent tripped once! Not even on a crack that coulda broken my mama's back!