What if you didn't have a name?

Catwoman · 09-07-2004, 04:58 AM

Try to imagine yourself without a name. Who would you be?

Remove egoistic associations from past experience, accumulated pieces of transient personality, your contrived sense of 'self'.

I have learnt that the self likes to strengthen itself through conflict. By argument, debate, identity; by pursuit of greater experience/knowledge/attractiveness, even sadness, all to strengthen your idea of who you are, or who you want to be.

This happens collectively too. We don't like peace, because we lose our collective identity. This is particularly relevant to recent events in Russia/Iraq - in fact all of human history - but I thought I would bring it up here to see what happens when we address the question individually.

What if you didn't have a name?

09-07-2004, 04:58 AM	#1
Catwoman stalking a Tom Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: on the edge of the english channel Posts: 1,000	What if you didn't have a name? Try to imagine yourself without a name. Who would you be? Remove egoistic associations from past experience, accumulated pieces of transient personality, your contrived sense of 'self'. I have learnt that the self likes to strengthen itself through conflict. By argument, debate, identity; by pursuit of greater experience/knowledge/attractiveness, even sadness, all to strengthen your idea of who you are, or who you want to be. This happens collectively too. We don't like peace, because we lose our collective identity. This is particularly relevant to recent events in Russia/Iraq - in fact all of human history - but I thought I would bring it up here to see what happens when we address the question individually. What if you didn't have a name? __________________ I've decided I'm not going to have a signature anymore.

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