Originally posted by
lcam88
oops. Sorry for the off-topic. I suppose I misread the OP. I feel compelled to post something meaningful now.
I seem to have ignored the aspect of the possessive personality that is more apparent in the OP. I'll confess that my first intuit was to comment on the possessive aspect, but the quote below make the posting I made more meaningful, I think.
And in terms of possessive personalities, its certainly fitting to say the idea of possession creates a world more fragmented and illusionary than the mere attributions of self I initially comment on. But there is more to just fixing the perception of separation, the path taken is important too.
Pedagogs theorize how babies understand themselves and their mothers to be the same, and how they need to be taught they are individuals separate from their mother.
It is fitting to suggest that "our" thoughts are part of a personal experience. [Western] society completely nurtures the idea of separation and polarity since early childhood, "your toy, not your toy", "pink is for girls, blue if for boys", "your room, my room, living room...". And it goes one and one, "Do you know who I am?"...
Many years passed as they are shaped into socially acceptable individuals who respect. Society doesn't function well with disrespect and so in that way maybe individual identification as a distinction from others is necessary to a certain extend.
But then it makes sense to ponder how further growth should be shaped. I was taught with mathematics, studies of society and "history", science, language, concepts of art then later a small set of arbitrary generalities and also specifies in an area of interest where I would later spend my time working for a type of freedom you call money.
But I did what you are doing, started questioning presumptions.
The issue of separation takes its first step to being solved the moment you do that. It is in our nature to be social. I comment on a different thread regarding an issue of trust that touches on the nature of our separation.
The question worth asking is how to get more people to question things around them and I do like the issue you raised: Why the obsession in owning or possessing everything in our midst? Why is it so important?
And the question cuts deeply into society. Do you think the drivers license in your wallet is you? Do you think it is yours? -- for all intents and purposes it is. But what intent and what purpose?...
Many people here on this forum are doing just that. An examination of sorts in what is real to them.
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