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Labeling Another is the Same as Rejecting Them
We limit another s value to the world with our judgments.
What is your favorite brand to put on people? Epithets like redneck, communist, socialist, asshole, lowlife, uneducated, high-maintenance, and loudmouthed are common ones I hear. There are others that don’t seem so offensive but put boundaries around the targeted person’s character; blue-collar, conservative, liberal, progressive, or overly religious. When we label others, we unfairly restrict them to this description.
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Your Purpose is not Defined by Your Titles and Achievements
There is more to life than wealth, power and fame.
Even if you accept that every person is just one of countless microcosms in the Universe, nature shows you daily that even the smallest organism has a purpose. Let’s take the human body as an example. Scientists have proven that your body replaces every cell roughly every seven years.
I am what I am
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A literal translation of the Jewish Name Of God, YAHWEH or YHVH. Supposedly this name was revealed to Moses by the deity in question when he appeared to him in the form of a blazing bush.
Interestingly, this name takes the form of a strange loop or self-referential description as described by Douglas Hofstadter in
Godel, Escher, Bach. One of Hofstadter s proposals in this book is that the phenomenon, or epiphenomenon, of consciousness, is the result of strange loops in a complex system (e.g. the human mind) which generate higher and higher levels of self-reference. Robert Anton Wilson also refers to this idea in