Tag: philosophy
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Incorporeal
Sitting across the room from my counselor, I remember him telling me that I’m an “agnostic Christian”, and that the apostle Paul had “agnostic Christians” killed for their heretical worldview. I remember smirking and raising a parenthetical eyebrow. If my parents knew the “Christian counseling” they pay for led to this they’d probably pull me […]
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Baseless Dogma.
Where the rising ape meets the falling angel. A perfect phrase, from a movie where Death (the reaper) has to fill in for Santa and deliver gifts in his absence, and Santa’s off doing god-knows-what. Who knows what the origin of the phrase is; if that is the origin or if it’s somewhere else. I’m […]
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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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Emergence
‘Autonomy’ The systems of the body are not autonomous in and of themselves, but they permit autonomy of the larger system. Autonomy is both an attribute of the systems and a product of the systems. The heart pumps. The frame is maintained, and the suspended musculature remains cohesive. Cells beget cells, those cells beget cells; […]
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Actualization
What I mean by ‘actualization’ and ‘becoming’ I will preface this post with what is meant by actualization, and by becoming. The widely-accepted definition of Self-Actualization is the idea of completion of one’s goals to the point of complete self-autonomy; the completion of an individual. An individual singular actualization, however, is simply a goal that […]
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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 […]
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