The Ontological War

The war to define the human self and human existence

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Entries from September 2007

Changing the Ontological World

September 10th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s harder to change the ontological world than I thought it would be. When I was deeply involved in thinking about ontological ideas and questions, I thought others were thinking about the same ideas and asking the same questions. After all, the ideas and answers are just there, within us, and all it takes to [...]

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Tags: Bad Alienation · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Fear · Ontological Worlds · Socialself Life · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Socialself World · The Transition

A Post: Laing and Far Horizons

September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

This post is a reply to a poster who had written that, among other reasons, he didn’t like R. D. Laing because he wrote some of his books mainly for the money, he had sex with numerous women, he had sex with some of his patients, and so on. The poster also quoted William S. [...]

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Tags: Ego-boundaried Beliefs · Everything Can Be Spun · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Fear · SEXUALITY · Sex · Sex Is a Realself Event · The Best One Will Ever Be · The Ego Boundary · The Transition

A Post: Is Mental Illness Incurable?

September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

I post to various discussion groups, and I’m going to include a few of those posts here, with possibly minor changes to them. For copyright reasons, I will not include the full post of the other poster.
In this post I reply to a poster who had written that people who have schizophrenia do not have [...]

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Tags: Bad Alienation · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · Good Alienation · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Mental Illness · Ontological Fear · Ontologically Lost · The Best One Will Ever Be · The Transition