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"Brian Fletcher"  wrote in message
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> "Sean"  wrote in message
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>> "Brian Fletcher"  wrote in message
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>>> "Joseph H"  wrote in message
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>>>> What is this thing called self?
>>>>
>>>> Is it.......
>>>>
>>>> A collection of personality-traits?
>>>> or..
>>>> Some special gift or skill?
>>>> or..
>>>> Some unique personality?
>>>> or..
>>>> A particular compendium of the beliefs and attitudes available locally?
>>>> or..
>>>> An I one pampers and indulges as much as possible?
>>>> or..
>>>> Some metaphysical and/or legal entity?
>>>> or..
>>>> All of the above - i.e. a vague identity to be called upon as and how
>>>> thge occasion demands?
>>>>
>>>> And if it so happens that a person has no unique gifts, or none that he
>>>> knows, and is unable to submit to the conventions of the moment and has
>>>> no interest in pampering himself...does that mean that this person has
>>>> no self?
>>>>
>>>> Or if a person has some physiological or psychological condition -
>>>> autism, say - that prevents him joining in the great swig of the moment
>>>> does that mean this person too is devoid of self?
>>>>
>>>> And might we not say that human history is an ongoing theatre of self,
>>>> a never-ending frieze of error and insistence and assertion and favour?
>>>> And where stands the no-man, the man with no self, in this frieze? Does
>>>> he have any useful role to play? Might he - because of his inability to
>>>> join in the jolly lie -  be driven to find an underlying truth? Might
>>>> not the vast spectaculars of our capacity to sustain self - the ability
>>>> to create, to believe, to submit to form, to beauty - push us along a
>>>> path of error and illusion? And might the no-man, in this scenario,
>>>> have something to offer....?
>>>>
>>>> Ah, shure, I'm only hoping.....
>>>>
>>>> Joseph H
>>>>
>>>> www.humanisation.org
>>>>
>>>
>>> From where did the hope spring?
>>>
>>> BOfL
>>>
>>
>> Eternal ... of course! :)
>>
>>
> 10/10 *****
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> :-)
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