XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.supp   
   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   Noah wrote:   
   > ansaman wrote:   
   >> Noah Sombrero wrote:   
      
   >>> Being rational does not make life worth living, Mr.   
   >>> Spock, and it does not make humans content to live in   
   >>> cities and spend a large part of their lives working   
   >>> for a paycheck.   
   >>   
   >>Did you earn this position of speaking for everyone?   
      
   Some writers and speakers use pronouns ad hoc. You   
   might say you, not you of course, someone, when he   
   or she means his or her own self as if selves were.   
      
   You, in this case, meaning, ansaman.   
      
   Noah may choose to use the word, we, when he   
   could be speaking for his own personal self and   
   generalizing, assuming he is not the only one.   
      
   >>Is it conferred in some sort of ceremony?   
      
   Some people like groups. Group-think reinforces   
   what was forced on children given: language.   
      
   Thinking of being a being, an individual being   
   for example, most if not all are given: names.   
      
   Identification and alienation, us/them occurs   
   when thought streams converge and diverge.   
      
   >>Why aren't you in charge if you read the mind of   
   >>the animus mundi?   
   >   
   >You, of course, are free to be the exception.   
      
   Aye was content, living in a city, working for decades   
   until being able to retire. Then, suddenly, when asked   
   if to return to visit where working took place, what then   
   emerged was a very strange kind of anger. Aye hated it.   
      
   >  I think it is valid to   
   >explore patterns in human behavior.  Not that everybody conforms.   
      
   Being content, knowing how being alive, a form of Life,   
   might require work in some form, even if only as a bum,   
   enabled me to endure a work-place environment, aye.   
      
   - for a spell ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)