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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (78607)4/21/2000 9:54:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
our "highest selves"??? What does THAT mean. You are fracturing apart the total human personality- splitting one part off, and giving an unsubstantiated value judgment that this part is somehow "higher" than the other parts.

If you were being chased by a pack of wild dogs your most "valuable" part of yourself would be your more primitive urge to protect yourself (just one example). I don't want to split myself apart and call one part "higher" than another. My hands are very useful- they let me type on this computer, but I wouldn't call them "higher" than my feet (except perhaps spatially). Here is just ONE instance of a sweeping value judgment backed up with not a shred of proof- for you really can't supply proof as such for value judgment- it IS a value judgment.

I used to think that reason was the best part of my being- but now, I realize, that without all of me, I wouldn't be me. All parts are highest, imo. We are a totality. I'm talking here about the personality, about the internal person- I'm not talking about those silly discussions people have about which finger they'd cut off for a million dollars.

I'm not even sure what you mean by highest self. Do you mean the part of our self that is capable of contemplating philosophy and religion? The self that is capable of contemplating itself? Do you mean, could you mean, the self that is most highly evolved?
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