
@socrates
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Bumped for relevance.
Bumped for relevance.
Isn’t it great when shit gets resolved like this? :smugblue:
The story seems to have the same sort of structure as most creation stories we see from Gnostic texts, or QBL.
Ontical doesn’t want you to go, nobody here wants you to. Everyone is entitled to express their own points of view, but those views are subject to scrutiny too.
Many forums outright ban topics pertaining to gender, but we don’t want it to be like that here. We welcome all weird and wonderful ideas, from Analytic to Continental and Religious to Atheist with everything in between.
Have you seen the copy of Beginners Mind in the reading area?
That which makes self-creation and reassembly necessary.
I read it already, I am sure I will add more to my responses soon.
A word of advice – don’t bring up anything you don’t want to talk about and if you don’t get along with any member (including admins) you can use the block function.
Like it. Freedom requires recognition from the other.
Good to see you back.
What I will say as an interjection, is that biological sex defining gender in terms of reproductive capability is a social construct that has been performed from Christianity onwards, see Monique Wittig’s work ‘The Straight Mind’.
The meaning of life is reaching heaven for some, or enlightenment for some. It is not universal but independent in its attempt to be fullfilled. It maybe to pass a class or just to live to the age of 85. In other words, its whatever you want it to be…like a goal…this is why goals are important to have. if you dont have a goal then you are lost. But everyone has a goal, regardless if you think you have one. If you are reading this….and are a noob then your goal is to reach the end of this paragraph. Congratulations.
Your writing has lots of teleological references, but I am not sure life is this linear. I like what you say here in a way, that we set goals depending what it is we apply ourselves to, which is the best we can do, but some of our ‘ends’ are very unrealistic and can hold us back from achieving far more beneficial practices.
I’m a very ‘here and now’ kind of person.
No ego = acceptance of perspectives with no hesitation of the acceptance/understanding. Unconditional love to seek that which can not be obtained. Perceptibly hard to obtain but ultimate salvation when you reach it.
*Like running up a very steep hill and then getting to the top and feeling relieved to reach the top to go down hill for some much earned rest. Like you cursed gravity and then praised it. That feeling*
If you are accepting of perspectives, then how come you can’t talk about women? The unconditional love part definitely sounds like the ideal, much like the metaphysics of Gnosticism and Vitalism.
This will be next: http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/16/every-flat-in-new-london-estate-has-been-sold-to-foreign-investors-6577715/
Looks like another episode of London Eye is in the pipeline here.
Gender would be something that Heidegger would say is ready-at-hand.
Can’t wait to see the longer version.
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