I worry... about the occult...

[wolven7]

The Beatles vs Nine Inch Nails - [Come Closer]--- I like what i see on Key23, but I worry, about the nature of the interaction.

Everone hears what they want to hear, you know, and that is more true in circles of intense practice and faith, than anywhere else. Scientific methods have their own strictures in place to prevent this, but, even still, people fit their data, to their wishes and experimentation. But religion, science, magic, your daily life, whatever, you will be tempted to turn them to your wants.

That being said, LVX23 has some interesting things to say about the self.

"The strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." - Kipling

Comments

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. Even there, there is the mutual backpatting form of cerebral masturbation I hate so much on online forums. It seems to be a rule of them; either that, or so much flaming and disagreement, but either way hardly anything useful gets done. They at least manage to channel their cliquishness productively, most times.

On that article: No man is an island, but neither is he his peers, his greaters or lessers. We are all facets of Everything, just as we have them. As above, and all that. That vast emptiness can be a solace, and independence only means having the choice to rely, to interact, rather than Needing to.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I see it, there, too. But the format enables more focus on individuals, and i can pick and choose who/what I want to read. Who's not a Jerkface.

2) Precisely the thing I'm going for, in the majority of my human interactions.

[celestial-fluke.livejournal.com]

as is maybe but i have learnt from experience of many years that the only person i can trust completely in this life is myself. luckily i enjoy my own company immensely - and it's nice, after so many years to finally have myself all to myself, without feeling guilty for not devoting all my time to trying to make other people happy. happiness comes from within and, when i have no interaction with others i am totally and utterly content. i suppose that is true selfishness.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

True, but even your concept of self is now formed by other factors in the world, and anything you do to you ripples outward. You change, it changes. It changes, you change, it changes, and so on.