Would you be your own best NEMESIS?

[Reverse Transcriptase]

Question stands.

Potential sub-components of the thread:

1. Would you be likely to become a nemesis to a copy of yourself?
2. Would you be likely to be a successful nemesis against a copy of yourself?
3. Would great poets write about the legendary conflict between you and yourself?

 

[Wish]

Myself would not care enough to get into any conflict with myself

 

[flow]

I am my biggest fan, and my worst critic.

 

[Kuu]

Would you be likely to become a nemesis to a copy of yourself?
I don't need a copy of myself to be my own nemesis.

Would you be likely to be a successful nemesis against a copy of yourself?
Noone is a worse enemy to you than yourself.

Would great poets write about the legendary conflict between you and yourself?
They already do.

 

[Cognisant]

I consider truly devout theists a sort of nemesis, in plural.
Not a personal conflict, just an incompatible vision of how the world should be.

The worst-kind-of-enemy-I-could-have kind of nemesis wouldn't be myself, all my life I've been fighting battles against myself and of late I've been gaining the upper hand, the thing is I know myself well enough to handle myself, though defeating him would prove to be the single greatest achievement of my life thus far.

My true nemesis, the sort of opponent that could destroy me utterly, would be someone who could poison me with apathy, turn me in against myself, and leave me with no way out.
May I never meet such a monster

 

[Da Blob]

Actually for many, it is our Internal conflicts that prove to be our downfall. We each are our own worst enemies - our own nemesis. The problem is, of course, that internal conflicts often lead to external conflicts...

and then there is this...

James 4 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God

 

[Ashenstar]

*break from si-kology homework*

Hmmm, if I were to split in half and give my half that works against myself it's own life I most certainly think that he would be my best nemesis and I his.
The other person would be me, but I would suspect a polar opposite. We would be locked in a stalemate, a useless game of chess against myself. Which I believe is the dictionary definition of a nemesis. I would probably try to sexually seduce him. Might as well have fun with myself.

My true nemesis, the sort of opponent that could destroy me utterly, would be someone who could poison me with apathy, turn me in against myself, and leave me with no way out.
May I never meet such a monster

Reading this........ the only person who could do this to me is myself.

Would anyone write about it besides myself? pffffft no. Who wants to write of the internal struggle of a crazed little girl?

I think I can honestly hear the Viso talking.

 

[Fukyo]

I already am my worst enemy and opponent.

 

[Irishpenguin]

If I had a copy of myself we would both be to busy having our internal conflicts to even think about having an external conflict.

Besides, if we ever did start to have a conflict it would probably start and end within 2 minutes.......

Me: "Okay what tha fuck dude stop eating all the chips"

Copy of me: "Hey!! you don't even like these chips that much......and trust me, I know you...... I'm your clone, and I don't even like these"

Me: (already starting to lose interest) Yea but that's not the point. The point is.......it's....

Copy of me: "Dude.....do you really wanna do this?"

Me: (looking away)......No......this sucks.......wanna get a pizza, we actually like those"

Copy of me: "Fuck yea dude"



......and thus was the end of a not-so intriguing struggle between the two twin penguins.


(that might not be the kind of "Conflict" you were going for, but that's what I imagined)

 

[Chronomar]

Potential sub-components of the thread:

1. Would you be likely to become a nemesis to a copy of yourself?
2. Would you be likely to be a successful nemesis against a copy of yourself?
3. Would great poets write about the legendary conflict between you and yourself?

1. I think I would. I am already the nemesis of myself, in some ways. However, I think that we would be really close collaborators...that is, until something went wrong. Any disagreement and we would betray each other.

2. I would assume so.

3. Maybe. Considering that both of us would prefer blowing the other up in a gigantic chemical reaction...which would certainly be...epic.

In a semi-related note, I've had a dream about myself being broken into two pieces, two polarized versions of myself. They proceeded to fight to the death.
(see below):

Spoiler

The dream was very long...plenty of foiled schemes, attempted murders, alliances, complex battles.

The premise was that we had divided the world between us and then became jealous of each other.

My sisters tried to stop us, but both versions of myself briefly worked together to kill them and anyone else who got in either of our ways.

In the end, the two decided to make a "truce", so they agreed to meet, without weapons, in a secret location.

Well, of course, both of us lied, and one stabbed the other. The one who was stabbed kept a blank, calm expression, although she was in considerable dream-pain.

She then pulled out a gun, laughed, and put the gun to the head of the other.

She hesitated for a moment. Then, tilting her head and laughing again, her face twisted into an expression that I would name "vengeance".

Her eyes...as best I can describe it...fell backward into her head, leaving black eye sockets.

Still laughing, she fired the gun and killed her other self...who seemed to be paralyzed with fear (and...regret?)

After they were both dead, I (in my third person perspective) watched as they both melted back into one person, who then just sat blankly: all personality erased.

This combined person held the dagger in one hand, and the gun in the other, comletely confounded (and innocent) of their uses.

However, a glint of impending understanding was visible in her eye... and at the end of the dream I knew the same process would occur again.

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

In a semi-related note, I've had a dream about myself being broken into two pieces, two polarized versions of myself. They proceeded to fight to the death.
(see below):

I know what you're doing. People often say that "dreamed" something fantastic like that, when in fact they were just tripping balls. Was it weed, shrooms, lsd, dxm or dmt? (But awesome dream!)

So I think:

Rule Seven - Others are only mirrors of you. You love or hate something about another person according to what love or hate about yourself. Be tolerant; accept others as they are, and strive for clarity of self-awareness; strive to truly understand and have an objective perception of your own self, your thoughts and feelings. Negative experiences are opportunities to heal the wounds that you carry. Support others, and by doing so you support yourself. Where you are unable to support others it is a sign that you are not adequately attending to your own needs.

Is relevant. Imagine if you had the perfect scapegoat. Someone who makes all the mistakes you do, has all the arrogance that you do, covets all the things you do, thinks all the bad thoughts that you do.

How could you not get pissed off at that person?

I think that our internal struggles (which a lot of you referenced) would finally have something physical and real to project our problems onto. The copy, of course, would too.

However, since I'm cautious and value information-gathering, I think the first thing to do with a copy of yourself is get really fucking drunk.

 

[Chronomar]

Seriously, it was a dream...induced by REM sleep. Well, REM sleep preceded by lots of caffeine and drawing. I generally find I have unusual and detailed dreams after drawing.

Rule #7....I've thought about that before without quite knowing what it was.