The Ontological War

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Entries Tagged as 'DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING'

Sex Is a Realself Event

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Quite a few people think sex is “just biological,” or “just physical,” or even “just chemical.” But as men and women increase their degrees of realself, they see that sex is actually linked inextricably to the realself.
Why is this? The main reason is probably that even though we can become alienated ontologically—we can fool ourselves [...]

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Tags: DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE · Good Alienation · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Fear · Ontological Friendship · RELIGION · Realself-to-Realself · SEXUALITY · Sex · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Culture War · The Transition

Who’s This Blog For?

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

It may be obvious, but in case it isn’t the main reason for this blog is to help make humankind less alienated ontologically and eventually to end our ontological alienation completely.
In working toward that goal, The Ontological War is concerned with two main groups. The first group is made up of ontological sensitive people, and [...]

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Tags: Being and Life · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Realself Life · Socialself Life · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Transition

Ontological Ebbs and Flows

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

In realself ontology terms, the Transition is the ontological path or road from one’s socialself to one’s realself.
Most of the time when increasing realself ideas are explained here they will be described as if people who are increasing their degrees of realself take an ontological step forward, then another, and another until they finally reach [...]

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Tags: DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Fear · Ontologically Lost · Socialself Life · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Best One Will Ever Be · The Transition

Rev. C. John McCloskey and Richard Land: We hate liberals

February 11th, 2010 · No Comments

Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), and Rev. C. John McCloskey III, Catholic evangelist and Opus Dei member, both hate liberals.
In an ERLC statement about its public policy battles of 2009, Land and ERLC VP Barrett Duke write:
As we predicted, we spent most of last year resisting [...]

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Tags: Alienation Is Contagious · Alienation by Attrition · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · Ontological Fear · Ontology Trumps Everything · RCC INC · RELIGION · Rewriting Reality · Southern Baptists · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Culture War · The Socialself World

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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Tags: Alienation Is Contagious · Alienation by Attrition · Can't Pick-and-Choose One's Alienation · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · RELIGION · Socialself Life · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Culture War · The Environment

Graham: “How do you like being married?”

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Most of the people who increase their degrees of realself start from the socialself world, being mostly their socialselves, and having mostly socialself-to-socialself relationships. Biographies show that there are a few people who apparently had a strong sense of their realselves for as long as they can remember, but most people start out life as [...]

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Tags: Alienation Is Contagious · Alienation by Attrition · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Movies · Ontological Worlds · Sex Lies and Videotape · Socialself Life · Socialself-to-Socialself · The Socialself World · The Transition

Ann: “All I’ve been thinking about all week is garbage”

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

On first hearing about them, some ontologically insensitive people may think that the socialself is the same as the realself, only a little deeper. This is not true. The two selves are structured differently, and because of their different structures they perceive themselves and all of human life and existence in different ways. The socialself [...]

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Tags: DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Mental Illness · Ontological Illness · Realself Life · Realself-to-Realself · Sex Lies and Videotape · Socialself-to-Socialself · The Transition

Who We Are Ontologically Determines Where We Live

February 5th, 2010 · No Comments

The ontological world each of us lives in is determined by our degree of realself: those of us who are being mostly if not almost entirely our socialselves live in the socialself world, and those of us who are sensitive to our realselves live in ontological worlds that are made up of more of the [...]

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Tags: Alienation Is Contagious · Alienation by Attrition · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Worlds · Realself Life · Sex Lies and Videotape · Socialself Life · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Realself World · The Socialself World

“Realself Ontology” and “Ontology”

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

I recently commented on an article at The American Catholic and found almost no surprises to the kinds of responses to my comments. Several people stopped replying to my comments, which is very common: we are all afraid of increasing our degrees of realself—of who we might truly be—and so for many people when they [...]

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Tags: Bad Alienation · Being and Life · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Fear · Ontological Worlds · Ontologically Lost · RCC INC · RELIGION · Rewriting Reality · The Socialself World · The Transition

Help! The World’s Too Big For Me! Make It Smaller!

January 31st, 2010 · No Comments

Several of my posts here have been critical of Catholics, and the main reason for that is that Catholics and the Vatican have pushed themselves to the front of those who are working to get all of us to become more alienated. But there are other organizations besides the RCC that are working to accomplish [...]

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Tags: Alienation by Attrition · Bad Alienation · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · Movies · RELIGION · Socialself Life · THE ONTOLOGICAL WAR · The Culture War · The Socialself World · The Transition · The World's Too Big