The ego is purported to be part of our psyche. It's supposed to be the *I*, and is normally seen as more a vice than a virtue.
A separate theory I am going to consider and only post here is because I am looking for other viewpoints (otherwise it would be ego-tistical to keep it locked up, wise eh?)
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Spiritual viewpoints on what the ego is, states the ego is a false reality. It's made-up. The purpose? To live in a false world. Religious/spiritual dabblers will say that it's because the ego (or you) split from God or some higher being. Other's will say that it's done to EXPERIENCE this realm, for reasons unknown.
Let's just set down the fact that the *ego* split from something, somewhere, for any reason we don't, and probably won't know just yet. But it split.
And this split causes a search. For answers, in all aspects of life. From women, finance, work, family, life, friends, jobs sports, food, money, nature, science, and so on. In each aspect of life, we seek answers to the never-ending question. Each answer is really the search for God, or the light, or the source of what we came from.
What then?
We'd work forever, like a dog chasing its tail trying to find the end, the source, a final conclusion, when all along it's right there in front of you. You're fine. You're either a piece of some source, some Light, some God, or still with him. But you're not in any harm, the answers cannot be found because you are here to experience the answers, not know them.
And what if the ego is the attachment to the physical plane? The ego feels. It feels high, and it feels low. Never in the middle. It's emotional. The more emotional and influenced you are by this plane of existence, the more real the pain seems. The more real it seems.
It's like connecting wires, pumping things into you. It dumbs you down. The ego tells you you are THIS person, THIS body, THIS job, THIS screenname, THESE interests, THIS d!ck, THIS sex. Each thing is you, and it weighs you down.
Yet all along, the more you feel this, the more you forget a self locked inside. The more you give into the ego, the more you lock away the spiritual self, because the 2 cannot co-exist. One must be washed away. One must be blown apart.
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The ego wants you to fear, because fear is emotion, and emotion is connection. It's part of the senses, and those sense make this real, much like a 3-d game, or like virtual reality would. Much like a dream encompasses MANY of the senses of the mind, that make them seem partially real while we sleep, yet not totally. While sleeping, it appears like sight is employed, because you see things. And it also makes you feel things, but you retain a detached sense of self, because the subconscious KNOWS you went to sleep. If it did not, then theoretically, it could believe it happens.
And the very fact guys and girls have 'wet' dreams highlight how powerful this truly is. How tapping into the mind in certain, powerful ways can influence our bodily functions. Or how it feels like we are falling off a building, or falling in general, and we shudder awake.
The ego itself is everything you seek to protect. It's a mask covering up a person or being who came here for a purpose unknown. If you believe in a post-life, do you believe in a pre-life? To leave as spirit, should you not have come as spirit into this world?
Would that not then make you infinite and untouchable by definition?
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You see, when shut down the nergy that gives power to the spirit side of life, we do not benefit by it, we do not connect to it, and we are not made possible to be part of it. The spirit-world, non physical realm, requires belief. Ideas require belief.
People who see no goodness in life, no riches, do so for that very reason, they don't see it in their life.
Tell me, when you're sitting around, and an idea pops into your head, do you claim ownership of it, or do you just act on it?
I find it funny, because now and then an idea I jumps into my mind, and I have no clue where it would come from, and how it go there. It was like my mind is plugged into some mind-river, and it happened to float along and determined I was the best person for the use of this idea. And so, I used it. And some don't use them, so they pass along.
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I once heard the saying that a baby cries not because it's born, but because a soul has realized it came to the earth plane to learn some lesson, and that's a cry of pain and agony, because it left it's home. It's not a cry of anything else. Seems to make sense given the fact that the baby has little to no idea of what consciousness is. And while some might say the Dr spanked it to get it alive or breathing, how does a newborn being even know to cry???
The ego is what binds us to emotion, pain, conflict, want, desire and so on. It isn't that this is bad or good, it just is. Reliance outside ourselves makes our separation from any infinite intelligent all the more impossible. Why? Because we all have our own pathes. And by following another's, we preclude our own. We fall off our own.
Examples of that are, following in your family's footsteps just because 'it's the family thing to do.' Or doing something for a woman, only to have her leave and you have no identity of what or who you are or where you are going. Many guys end up here for that reason alone.
Indecisiveness is a trademark of the ego world. Uncertainty abounds, because it makes search for a God, or source, all that more elusive. A source is sought in drugs, friends, money, drinking, games, sports, everywhere but right here, or there. Everywhere but inside you.
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The questions are 'where are we going,' and 'what are we searching for.' If we knew that life was experience, or that we already were infinite, then going forth in life would be the goal. However, if we view life as completely physical body and mind, then we are loathe to risk anything in this seemingly real plane of existence.
If you knew every piece was in place, every person in your life, and every occurence to befall you was for a reason, and your only power was CHOICE, what would that do to your life???
What if there never was a wrong answer? That there wasn't a WAY you could fail? Many have the thoughts deeply embedded in their minds of heaven or hell, and not religiously. But that action or inaction leads to personal feelings of heaven or hell. That a bad choice is hell, and the right choices heaven. That we make or don't make a choice for the sake of the outcome. For the sake of making a heaven, or avoiding a hell. What if neither was possible? What if those were of no consideration?
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The ego itself is judgemental. It collects all experiences, compiles them, as uses what it beliefs to relate to other egos. Only problem, egos hate other egos. Two powerful egos cannot exist together. One wants to feel as if it owns the world. It seeks control. The ego minded person does not see spirit in body, it sees body, so it relates as if body is all their exists. It judges. It tries to find quirks, and tries NLP, and tricks, and body language assessments to connect.
Well, if we are already connected, what connection must occur? Our bodies separate us, but our minds and spirits bind us. You might see a fat person, or a goofy person, or a colored person, and immediately judge them, or not judge them. We might create assumptions based on them. And vice versa, they do to you, without considering it. First impressions are generally based on physical, and not spiritual/mind presence.
When a woman is placed on a pedastal she is done so based on her physical sense. In doing so, you've given her dominion in the physical realm. If you relate in the spiritual/mind realm, you will likely connect.
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My feelings are that, many things that crop up, particularly on dating/pua sites are common sense, and are required survival skills on this plane, that cannot be learned from nameless people hiding behind impersonal technology. Most people sound like a bunch of clueless ego seeking answers, and their constant search for answers precludes an evolution of mind or soul, because they don't learn the main purpose of being here: Self-Reliance.
The ego is a funny thing. It's understood from a variety of angles. I know I'll get responses telling me what it is or isn't, but those are uselss anyways. I post on possibilities and new thoughts, not on supposedly concrete explanations of a world and an existence for which we don't grasp. And so 'shut down' posts are useless anyways. Not only do they kill your possibility thinking, but they stifle advancement of an idea.
A-Unit
A separate theory I am going to consider and only post here is because I am looking for other viewpoints (otherwise it would be ego-tistical to keep it locked up, wise eh?)
----------------------------------
Spiritual viewpoints on what the ego is, states the ego is a false reality. It's made-up. The purpose? To live in a false world. Religious/spiritual dabblers will say that it's because the ego (or you) split from God or some higher being. Other's will say that it's done to EXPERIENCE this realm, for reasons unknown.
Let's just set down the fact that the *ego* split from something, somewhere, for any reason we don't, and probably won't know just yet. But it split.
And this split causes a search. For answers, in all aspects of life. From women, finance, work, family, life, friends, jobs sports, food, money, nature, science, and so on. In each aspect of life, we seek answers to the never-ending question. Each answer is really the search for God, or the light, or the source of what we came from.
What then?
We'd work forever, like a dog chasing its tail trying to find the end, the source, a final conclusion, when all along it's right there in front of you. You're fine. You're either a piece of some source, some Light, some God, or still with him. But you're not in any harm, the answers cannot be found because you are here to experience the answers, not know them.
And what if the ego is the attachment to the physical plane? The ego feels. It feels high, and it feels low. Never in the middle. It's emotional. The more emotional and influenced you are by this plane of existence, the more real the pain seems. The more real it seems.
It's like connecting wires, pumping things into you. It dumbs you down. The ego tells you you are THIS person, THIS body, THIS job, THIS screenname, THESE interests, THIS d!ck, THIS sex. Each thing is you, and it weighs you down.
Yet all along, the more you feel this, the more you forget a self locked inside. The more you give into the ego, the more you lock away the spiritual self, because the 2 cannot co-exist. One must be washed away. One must be blown apart.
--------------------------------
The ego wants you to fear, because fear is emotion, and emotion is connection. It's part of the senses, and those sense make this real, much like a 3-d game, or like virtual reality would. Much like a dream encompasses MANY of the senses of the mind, that make them seem partially real while we sleep, yet not totally. While sleeping, it appears like sight is employed, because you see things. And it also makes you feel things, but you retain a detached sense of self, because the subconscious KNOWS you went to sleep. If it did not, then theoretically, it could believe it happens.
And the very fact guys and girls have 'wet' dreams highlight how powerful this truly is. How tapping into the mind in certain, powerful ways can influence our bodily functions. Or how it feels like we are falling off a building, or falling in general, and we shudder awake.
The ego itself is everything you seek to protect. It's a mask covering up a person or being who came here for a purpose unknown. If you believe in a post-life, do you believe in a pre-life? To leave as spirit, should you not have come as spirit into this world?
Would that not then make you infinite and untouchable by definition?
------------------------------
You see, when shut down the nergy that gives power to the spirit side of life, we do not benefit by it, we do not connect to it, and we are not made possible to be part of it. The spirit-world, non physical realm, requires belief. Ideas require belief.
People who see no goodness in life, no riches, do so for that very reason, they don't see it in their life.
Tell me, when you're sitting around, and an idea pops into your head, do you claim ownership of it, or do you just act on it?
I find it funny, because now and then an idea I jumps into my mind, and I have no clue where it would come from, and how it go there. It was like my mind is plugged into some mind-river, and it happened to float along and determined I was the best person for the use of this idea. And so, I used it. And some don't use them, so they pass along.
---------------------------------
I once heard the saying that a baby cries not because it's born, but because a soul has realized it came to the earth plane to learn some lesson, and that's a cry of pain and agony, because it left it's home. It's not a cry of anything else. Seems to make sense given the fact that the baby has little to no idea of what consciousness is. And while some might say the Dr spanked it to get it alive or breathing, how does a newborn being even know to cry???
The ego is what binds us to emotion, pain, conflict, want, desire and so on. It isn't that this is bad or good, it just is. Reliance outside ourselves makes our separation from any infinite intelligent all the more impossible. Why? Because we all have our own pathes. And by following another's, we preclude our own. We fall off our own.
Examples of that are, following in your family's footsteps just because 'it's the family thing to do.' Or doing something for a woman, only to have her leave and you have no identity of what or who you are or where you are going. Many guys end up here for that reason alone.
Indecisiveness is a trademark of the ego world. Uncertainty abounds, because it makes search for a God, or source, all that more elusive. A source is sought in drugs, friends, money, drinking, games, sports, everywhere but right here, or there. Everywhere but inside you.
----------------------------
The questions are 'where are we going,' and 'what are we searching for.' If we knew that life was experience, or that we already were infinite, then going forth in life would be the goal. However, if we view life as completely physical body and mind, then we are loathe to risk anything in this seemingly real plane of existence.
If you knew every piece was in place, every person in your life, and every occurence to befall you was for a reason, and your only power was CHOICE, what would that do to your life???
What if there never was a wrong answer? That there wasn't a WAY you could fail? Many have the thoughts deeply embedded in their minds of heaven or hell, and not religiously. But that action or inaction leads to personal feelings of heaven or hell. That a bad choice is hell, and the right choices heaven. That we make or don't make a choice for the sake of the outcome. For the sake of making a heaven, or avoiding a hell. What if neither was possible? What if those were of no consideration?
---------------------------------
The ego itself is judgemental. It collects all experiences, compiles them, as uses what it beliefs to relate to other egos. Only problem, egos hate other egos. Two powerful egos cannot exist together. One wants to feel as if it owns the world. It seeks control. The ego minded person does not see spirit in body, it sees body, so it relates as if body is all their exists. It judges. It tries to find quirks, and tries NLP, and tricks, and body language assessments to connect.
Well, if we are already connected, what connection must occur? Our bodies separate us, but our minds and spirits bind us. You might see a fat person, or a goofy person, or a colored person, and immediately judge them, or not judge them. We might create assumptions based on them. And vice versa, they do to you, without considering it. First impressions are generally based on physical, and not spiritual/mind presence.
When a woman is placed on a pedastal she is done so based on her physical sense. In doing so, you've given her dominion in the physical realm. If you relate in the spiritual/mind realm, you will likely connect.
----------------------------------
My feelings are that, many things that crop up, particularly on dating/pua sites are common sense, and are required survival skills on this plane, that cannot be learned from nameless people hiding behind impersonal technology. Most people sound like a bunch of clueless ego seeking answers, and their constant search for answers precludes an evolution of mind or soul, because they don't learn the main purpose of being here: Self-Reliance.
The ego is a funny thing. It's understood from a variety of angles. I know I'll get responses telling me what it is or isn't, but those are uselss anyways. I post on possibilities and new thoughts, not on supposedly concrete explanations of a world and an existence for which we don't grasp. And so 'shut down' posts are useless anyways. Not only do they kill your possibility thinking, but they stifle advancement of an idea.
A-Unit
