Sluts

[satinbutterfly]

no we cant, unfourtnunitly its society...reality...call it what you want to call it.
its a sad sad part of life.

Well... I can choose to just be... and to let others be.

I will not be part of society's downfall.

 

[satinbutterfly]

because labeling things is how our brain works.

Yes... but we are more than our brain.

 

[All Else Failed]

Yes... but we are more than our brain.

....if you like




However labeling things is just what humans do. There's no way you can't not label.

 

[satinbutterfly]

....if you like




However labeling things is just what humans do. There's no way you can't not label.

I can choose to override my need to label. Everything is a choice... including our habits.

 

[All Else Failed]

I can choose to override my need to label. Everything is a choice... including our habits.

not so sure if you could do that because the way our brain identifies things and relates them is through labeling. Like mom, dad, chair, table, computer, food etc etc. i don't see how you could ignore those things, even if you tried there would still be those labels in the back of your head.

 

[satinbutterfly]

not so sure if you could do that because the way our brain identifies things and relates them is through labeling. Like mom, dad, chair, table, computer, food etc etc. i don't see how you could ignore those things, even if you tried there would still be those labels in the back of your head.

I can choose. Think of it as... making a choice to see everything the way a child that cannot speak does. They don't have words for them... things just are.

Our need to label everything is strictly ego-based. It's possible to override the ego.

 

[All Else Failed]

I can choose. Think of it as... making a choice to see everything the way a child that cannot speak does. They don't have words for them... things just are.

Our need to label everything is strictly ego-based. It's possible to override the ego.

uninformed and un-experienced?


Our need to label things is simply there to make things simpler to identify.

 

[Boomer]

A party aint a party without some sluts.

 

[satinbutterfly]

uninformed and un-experienced?


Our need to label things is simply there to make things simpler to identify.

No - it's our ego telling us we must name everything in our existence.

Can you not see the value in looking at something, say for instance a tree, and see it not as just a tree, but as everything it is? To truly be able to see things, and not label them as just this or that, opens your eyes to life.

I didn't make this stuff up on my own you know... try reading Eckart Tolle's book A New Earth.

 

[All Else Failed]

lol so basically you read a single book and started using his lingo?

My freind who is a psychology professor read it and said it was utter garbage and he doesn't even know what an ego is. He goes on about how an ego is an outside entity when its NOT. Plus, from what I understand, he basically just rips off Buddhism and renames it.


I can appreciate a tree for what it is, and everything that it is without getting all new age about it. However, you're using labels even now! You better not call it a tree because thats a label!

 

[Peter Parka]

A slut is a girl who sleeps around, what's the problem?

 

[Boomer]

A slut is a girl who sleeps around, what's the problem?

I dont see one! *HIGH FIVE*

 

[luumu]

A slut is a girl who sleeps around, what's the problem?

Wizard's sleeve. Clown's Pocket.

 

[satinbutterfly]

lol so basically you read a single book and started using his lingo?

My freind who is a psychology professor read it and said it was utter garbage and he doesn't even know what an ego is. He goes on about how an ego is an outside entity when its NOT. Plus, from what I understand, he basically just rips off Buddhism and renames it.


I can appreciate a tree for what it is, and everything that it is without getting all new age about it. However, you're using labels even now! You better not call it a tree because thats a label!

Everyone has an opinion. I, like many other people, like the book, and I agree with a lot of what he says. It's not your place to tell me what is and isn't possible in my head, or in anyone else's for that matter.

You don't have to like it, but please try to respect someone else's way of thinking, even if you don't agree.

And btw, perhaps you could read something for yourself instead of depending on someone else to tell you what it's all about. Just a suggestion.

 

[All Else Failed]

I respect and trust my psychology professor's analysis of the book.

It just seems to me that you're buying into this new age stuff too easily. Kind of like how people read The Secret and thought they walked away with some sort of arcane knowledge.

 

[satinbutterfly]

I respect and trust my psychology professor's analysis of the book.

It just seems to me that you're buying into this new age stuff too easily. Kind of like how people read The Secret and thought they walked away with some sort of arcane knowledge.

I like his ideas. :shrug: Label me, or what the book speaks of, however you wish.

 

[All Else Failed]

well see the theory of the book fails because we label things every day.


but whatever

 

[satinbutterfly]

well see the theory of the book fails because we label things every day.


but whatever

We certainly do. The key is, to look past our need for labels, and see more than that. To choose to see more than that. To want to see more than that. And of course, to be more than that.

 

[All Else Failed]

We certainly do. The key is, to look past our need for labels, and see more than that. To choose to see more than that. To want to see more than that. And of course, to be more than that.

give me an example.

 

[satinbutterfly]

give me an example.

Was the tree thing not enough for you? C'mon man... it's past my bedtime and I'm tired.