The Ontological War

As with all increasing realself people, Ann and Graham in Sex, Lies, and Videotape express their current ontological thoughts and emotions through their sex lives. One example of their doing this is when they each say they are the most sexual when they are by themselves.
Ann tells her therapist:
Ann: I mean, I’m sure he probably [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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Most people don’t have any idea what a realself ontology emotion or idea is. Because of this, I’m going to explain these emotions and ideas when I see them expressed in movies.
In The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dr. Miles J. Bennell says “I never knew fear until I kissed Becky.” This fear is a [...]

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A long time ago, when I was either 19 or 20, a friend and I were discussing life and the way people work. After we were done talking, I thought he was wrong in about half of the things he said, and I knew the reason for this was that he had not been thinking [...]

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OK. When I first started this blog I had a lot of ideas for subjects, but as I became fully aware of how poor the ontological understanding and ability of most people are, I lost interest. Why spend the time writing the blog if everyone is too afraid to take even a single step forward [...]

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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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