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[Anonymous No.13588561]

What is power?

[Anonymous No.13588564]

>>13588561
Power is constituted through accepted forms of knowledge, scientific understanding and ‘truth’:

[Anonymous No.13588565]

>>13588561
Someone or something who brings actions into manifestation.

[Anonymous No.13588645]

Power is not will, it is a phenomenon of physically making things happen

[Anonymous No.13588649]

>>13588645
So is it time?

[Anonymous No.13589655]

>>13588561
voltage times current

[Anonymous No.13589673]

genetics

[Anonymous No.13589804]

>>13588561
Being able to do things for yourself and not give a shit what other people think of you. You must also be very self disciplined.

[Anonymous No.13589807]

>>13588564
absolutely based

[Anonymous No.13589858]

making people do things they usually wouldn’t

[Anonymous No.13589920]

>>13588561
Power is an attribute of God

[Anonymous No.13590057]

>>13588561
in what context?
all the previous answers have a form of merit.

[Anonymous No.13590076]

>>13588561
Influence

[Anonymous No.13590243]

>>13588561
The ability to exert your will on the world and others in it

[Anonymous No.13590360]

power is human potence (potence as in potence and act)

[Anonymous No.13590364]

>>13590360
potency* not a native english speaker, my bad

[Anonymous No.13590370]

from Anglo-French pouair, Old French povoir, noun use of the infinitive, "to be able," earlier podir (9c.), from Vulgar Latin *potere, from Latin potis "powerful"

[Anonymous No.13590385]

>>13590370
"quality of being able, ability to do or act, power," Middle English might, from Old English miht, earlier mæht "bodily strength, power; authority, dominion, control; ability," from Proto-Germanic *makhti- (source also of Old Norse mattr, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch macht, Old High German maht, German Macht, Gothic mahts), a Germanic suffixed form of the PIE root *magh- "to be able, have power."

[Anonymous No.13590397]

>>13590370
>>13590385
It’s obvious from these definitions that those who are obsessed with power are extremely wanting

[Anonymous No.13590939]

Dynamis.

[Anonymous No.13590957]

>>13588561
>Metaphysically
Control over will (self and other's).
>Physically
Control over Nature's will (physical reality)

[Anonymous No.13591100]

>>13590957
Will is physical.

[Anonymous No.13591153]

>>13591100
I'm sure it is for materialists.
Regular people don't believe that shit though when compared to lived experience.

You're not going to convince many people that they're will is an illusion of chemical reactions.

[Anonymous No.13591229]

>>13591153
It's not an illusion. Yet they believe in that your head being blown off is "real".

[Anonymous No.13591440]

>>13590397
Yeah we're not really that kind of retard, you'd probably find that garden variety of narcissist on /pol/. We're still retards, but less averse to reading.

[Anonymous No.13591443]

>>13588561
Over others.

[Anonymous No.13591461]

>>13591443
That's the opposite of power: the view of power from powerlessness, the view of the infinitely self-limited point.

True power is with others: love.

[Anonymous No.13591481]

>>13591461
>the view of power from powerlessness, the view of the infinitely self-limited point
Calling me a peon in itself does nothing to invalidate my point, true power is power over others.
>True power is with others: love.
Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.13591484]

>>13588561
Despite all the meme beliefs, power is the core of human life. There are two kinds of people: those who decide, and those who obey. Life is a struggle for dominating or being dominated. And it's all, obviously, meaningless and futile, given the eternal non existence that awaits us all and transient nature of everything.

[Anonymous No.13591737]

All these fucking replies yet I can't get a single uniform answer.

[Anonymous No.13591739]

>>13591443
DUDE

[Anonymous No.13591764]

>>13588561
the ability of doing things, not necessarily things you want to do.