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   Message 169,186 of 170,335   
   Richmond to oldernow   
   Re: The shortsightedness of differentiat   
   23 Apr 24 18:25:41   
   
   From: dnomhcir@gmx.com   
      
   oldernow  writes:   
      
   > Isn't it amazing how few understand that differentiating   
   > themselves from others - especially employing/embracing   
   > a label to emphasize that differentiation - invites   
   > the perception of the others that those differentiating   
   > themselves are *distancing* themselves from them - which is   
   > half a hoppy skip from the perception that the distancing   
   > is due to those differentiating themselves considering   
   > themselves superior to the others.   
   >   
   > Is that really such rocket science?   
   >   
   > Apparently.   
   >   
   > The sad hilarity is even greater when the distancers   
   > talk of wanting unity/oneness whilst insisting they are   
   > different!   
      
   Considering human evolution, how would you organize yourselves to hunt   
   and kill a woolly mammoth, without such notions of self and other?   
      
   Though we are many, we are one body, because we all share, in one woolly   
   mammoth.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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