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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (5230)	12/20/2000 12:22:26 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

strong sense of individualism I hope I didn't communicate this indiviualism as a necessary component of the "me". Even when one is deferential to one's community or throwing oneself on a grenade it can still be in the context of "me". I really want to reassert that this is different than the "no true altruism" argument path (which I find plausible, but many people don't). Let me cite an example. I view consciousness as a person at a movie theater. You are watching the screen and feeling the Sens-surround! But even if the "movie" is about "me" doing a tribal dance with others, it is the "me" that is watching the movie, feeling the rhythm and finding the meaning (making Mom and Dad happy, maybe). Are you alone in the theater? For me the answer is YES. I know someone who claims they aren't alone in the theater and they don't have multiple personality disorder (as far as I know ). To me this is unimaginable. But that is their claim and they stick to it. They hear "both" sides of issues in their head in a dialog while watching a single screen from a single perspective, almost like the little devil and angel dueling it out in the comics. For me, it is a monologue or even a separate movie (the "real" screen is turned "off") where I'm an observer or an actor.