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Entries Tagged as 'Can't Pick-and-Choose One's Alienation'

We Can’t Pick-and-Choose Our Alienation

February 11th, 2010 · No Comments

As people become more their realselves they become less alienated ontologically, and they develop a deeper and closer bond with reality and with the natural world—the life that exists other than our own. Men and women who reach this ontological state realize that the natural world is in fact their true home, and they develop [...]

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I Am Anti Catholic But Not Anti-Catholic

January 7th, 2010 · No Comments

There appears to be two main categories of people who dislike the Roman Catholic Church. The larger of these includes all the Protestant conservatives and fundamentalists who disagree with the RCC over theology. Tim LaHaye, John Hagee, Jehovah’s Witnesses, etc., with their talk of “a false religion” and the “Great Whore of Babylon,” all fit [...]

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Tags: Bad Alienation · Can't Pick-and-Choose One's Alienation · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · Ontology Trumps Everything · RELIGION · Socialself Life · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Culture War

We’re Off to See the Wizard

March 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m not much of a fan of devoting one’s life to changing “the world,” for several reasons.
First of all, focusing mainly on the world can be an easy out. It’s much easier to think “My life would be great if only the world would change into what I think it should be” or “My life [...]

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Tags: Can't Pick-and-Choose One's Alienation · Defending Alienated Life · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Worlds · The Realself World · The Socialself World