“being yourself”:
A metaphor for a feeling which is so far removed from modern language’s ability to describe, that it’s a local impossibility for all but a tiny portion of the people in the world to taboo it.
It’s purpose is to illicit the associated feeling in the listener, and not to be used as a descriptive reference. It is a feeling that is so deeply ingrained in 50% of people, that those people don’t realize the other 50% of people don’t know what it is; and so had never thought to even begin to try to explain it, much less taboo it.
tabooing the word as if it describes an action is an inadequate representation of the true meaning of the word. The same is true of tabooing the word as if it describes an emotion, a thought, a belief, or an identity.
“being yourself” is a conglomeration of two concepts. The first, “being”, requires the assumption that there is such a thing as a “state of being”, as an all-encompassing description of something that describes it’s non-physical properties as a snapshot of a single moment; and that said description is unlikely to change over time. The second, “oneself”, requires the assumption that there is such a thing as a spark of consciousness at the source of any mental processes, or related, of any living creature. This concept is reminiscent of the concept of a “soul”.
I personally find the concept of “being oneself” to be of the fallacious origin of the assumption that the spark of consciousness is separate from the current state of being, and that said state and spark do not flux and change continuously.
However, the context of the phrase “being yourself”, in this instance, requires not that this phrase be tabooed, but instead that “changing your emotions” be tabooed, along with “useful”.
The question in regards to “changing your emotions” is if the author meant that truly changing one’s emotions would be “not being oneself”; or if the author meant something else, such as putting on a facade of an emotion that one is not experiencing is “not being oneself”.
“Useful” is a word that has different definitions for many people, and often changes based on context.
The comment in question is likely a misunderstanding of what is meant by the word “useful”. This implies the possibility that many people have misunderstood what is meant by the word “useful”, perhaps even including the original poster of the quote.
So, the useful thing to do would not be to taboo “being yourself”, but to instead taboo “useful”.
In my case, I am using “useful” to mean an action which produces a generalized and averaged value for all involved and all observers. In this case, I consider the “value” in question to be an increase in communication ability for all posters, and a general increase in all readers’ ability to progress their own mental abilities. I could taboo further, but I don’t see any proportionally significant value in doing so.
“being yourself”: A metaphor for a feeling which is so far removed from modern language’s ability to describe, that it’s a local impossibility for all but a tiny portion of the people in the world to taboo it. It’s purpose is to illicit the associated feeling in the listener, and not to be used as a descriptive reference. It is a feeling that is so deeply ingrained in 50% of people, that those people don’t realize the other 50% of people don’t know what it is; and so had never thought to even begin to try to explain it, much less taboo it.
tabooing the word as if it describes an action is an inadequate representation of the true meaning of the word. The same is true of tabooing the word as if it describes an emotion, a thought, a belief, or an identity.
“being yourself” is a conglomeration of two concepts. The first, “being”, requires the assumption that there is such a thing as a “state of being”, as an all-encompassing description of something that describes it’s non-physical properties as a snapshot of a single moment; and that said description is unlikely to change over time. The second, “oneself”, requires the assumption that there is such a thing as a spark of consciousness at the source of any mental processes, or related, of any living creature. This concept is reminiscent of the concept of a “soul”.
I personally find the concept of “being oneself” to be of the fallacious origin of the assumption that the spark of consciousness is separate from the current state of being, and that said state and spark do not flux and change continuously.
However, the context of the phrase “being yourself”, in this instance, requires not that this phrase be tabooed, but instead that “changing your emotions” be tabooed, along with “useful”. The question in regards to “changing your emotions” is if the author meant that truly changing one’s emotions would be “not being oneself”; or if the author meant something else, such as putting on a facade of an emotion that one is not experiencing is “not being oneself”.
“Useful” is a word that has different definitions for many people, and often changes based on context. The comment in question is likely a misunderstanding of what is meant by the word “useful”. This implies the possibility that many people have misunderstood what is meant by the word “useful”, perhaps even including the original poster of the quote.
So, the useful thing to do would not be to taboo “being yourself”, but to instead taboo “useful”.
In my case, I am using “useful” to mean an action which produces a generalized and averaged value for all involved and all observers. In this case, I consider the “value” in question to be an increase in communication ability for all posters, and a general increase in all readers’ ability to progress their own mental abilities. I could taboo further, but I don’t see any proportionally significant value in doing so.