The Ontological War

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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

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

“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

Sex, Lies, and Videotape: An Ontological Assessment

January 31st, 2010 · No Comments

Recently I saw Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 film Sex, Lies, and Videotape for the first time. I’ve never paid much attention to movies in the past, but as much as I can recall now Sex, Lies is the most ontologically sensitive and insightful movie I have ever seen.
I’m going to use it as the framework to [...]

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Tags: FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE · Good Alienation · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Movies · Ontological Fear · Ontological Love · Realself-to-Realself · SEXUALITY · Sex · Sex Is a Realself Event · Sex Lies and Videotape · The Transition

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

359° of Psych

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Psychiatry is unrelenting in its search for the causes of mental illness.
For instance, in its section on schizophrenia Science Daily has articles on “brain synapses,” “neuron activity,” a “damaged gene,” “white-matter defects,” “dopamine abnormalities,” “cannabis,” “abnormalities of the mouth,” “gene mutations governing a key brain enzyme,” “changes in brain density,” and “abnormal proteins,” along with [...]

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Tags: DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Mental Illness · Ontological Fear · Ontologically Lost · Rewriting Reality