Tag: philosophical
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Human
For so long now I’ve been trying to discern and separate the ‘human’ thought from the biological instinct, constantly taking myself apart like some kind of machine, trying to find schematics that don’t exist. Over the course of the past couple of weeks, somehow I realized the “animal” is not separate from the human; our […]
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Ancient and primitive.
Pure, involuntary passions: rage, arousal, fear. Pre-neolithic. Ancient and primitive. Reduce the concept of a person to its most basic elements. Bring them to the point of raw expression. Boil a person down to nothing. Vivisected. Naked, exposed. Remove the husk; strip away the excess, the humanity, and what is left? This is something I’ve […]
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The Purgation of Ego
Ego in this context In order to understand what I mean when I say “I want to eliminate my ego”, I need to clearly define what I mean by the term “ego”. The Merriam Webster defines ego as “the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world”. Elimination of ego in this context […]