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There is this one line of thought I had where giving someone a name "the christening" was an ancient spell of a type of 'possession and framing of the mind' as
by pyinstallwoes 4y ago
There is this one line of thought I had where giving someone a name "the christening" was an ancient spell of a type of 'possession and framing of the mind' as it enforces possessiveness and ownership over "things" vs a language and culture that never named anyone at birth. This led me to realize that it is entirely feasible, and you'd simply develop "nicknames" for every relationship on a graph. It actually becomes much more intimate and at the same time you may in fact connect 'personally' with every thing and everyone the same way you don't name your body parts.
My left hand, my right hand, and so on. Food for thought.
Then the whole thing about spirituality and ego, and how a persona is etymologically linked to mask and being an actor in a play. It starts to get a bit interesting, especially in light of a 'cosmic theater' participating in Maya on the backbone of Brahama.
Then there is the poignancy of contemplation where one realizes one cannot eliminate the ego at any point of time because every interaction is done through an act, however one does have the power to switch that mask at any time. Perhaps this is the true meaning of the biblical free will.
Perhaps at one time we did not have the ability to change our persona, ego, mask. Perhaps at one time we were subject to the same type of nightmare of hell of torture, birth, rebirth, and maybe without any memory due to a self-similar creation event of "virtualizing a universe" from another layer. Perhaps that event was similar to our moment now when the creators were in effect, parents of a new kind not knowing the consequence of their actions. Then, through the realization of what was happening over who knows how long something happened through love, and free will was enacted over the domain.
Forgive me if that is too imaginative, for some reason, it resonates more strongly than anything I've ever come across. It seems to me that the stories of old really do make sense in a technological age rather than a mythological one. After all, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistuingishable from magic. I'd like to add "or myth."
- alexpetralia 4y agoVery thought-provoking comment!