The Ontological War

Several times since I wrote the last entry here, Ontological Abilities, I’ve wonder if I wasn’t being too harsh in it.

In the past, other than in Being and Life, I’ve almost always tried to limit my writings to the positive side of increasing one’s degree of being. During the few times I have talked about it, most people have liked hearing about it. At least initially. But once they realized “uh-oh, you mean I have to become who I truly am?” they took off, never to be seen again. I learned a long time ago that complaining about others ontologically is not productive.

Therefore, my last entry was a big change in my expressed thoughts about ontology.

I don’t know how many people have been on all the groups and lists that I’ve posted to in the past, but it is in the thousands. In one or two of those groups, I have posted enough that the members were able to get a good sense of what realself ontology is and what increasing one’s degree of being involves.

But for all those people, I can’t say for certain now that even one of them has moved a single millimeter forward down the ontological path toward his or her realself. A few people have been curious for a little while, but no one has ever said, “This is all very interesting. Let’s explore it for awhile.”

I’ve sometimes wondered what I would have done if the person I was when I first started thinking about ontological questions–when I was 18 or 19–were to meet the person I am now, with decades of thought spent on these questions. Would I be enthusiastic and ask the person I am now questions? Or would I be too self-conscious and wouldn’t say a thing?

I can’t say for sure, but I think I would ask many questions. Unfortunately, this means that my thoughts in my last post aren’t that far off.

Come on, folks! You have to do something–no one is going to increase your degrees of realself for you.