Someone must conquer the Now, and make it available to all.
Seems to be my self-appointed task.
For purely personal reasons: I simply want to enjoy life again, as I dimly remember being able to do as a child………..
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Everyone, including me, is always saying “Oh, you project too much,” or “You are projecting that”.
Once in awhile, not often , I actually think about what people are saying to me, or I am saying back to them. When I do this, it results in a vertiginous spiral of speculation. Due to my philosophy training, I am able to handle the heights.
What exactly is projection, I asked myself out of the blue yesterday, due to my having just told my sister that she “projects too much, ease up!” in an attempt to mollify some extremely important issue for her that I have since forgotten.
My first instinct as a scholar was to go online and research the hell out of it, but my second instinct as an immensely lazy faux-intellectual kicked in, so I consulted Wikipedia instead, which said:
“PROJECTION is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies
his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world,
usually to other people.
Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings.
Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted unconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them.”
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Psychologists are big on ‘’defense mechanisms’’, aren’t they?
What the hell is it I am defending, is what I ask.
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I need purpose. I have none. I wish to gain some.
I suppose that building up this shadow persona I show the world might be entertaining.
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So I do, then I doubt in it. Is it good enough? True enough? Beautiful enough?
Not hardly, I tell my self.
Gotta do better tomorrow, or later today…or, now.
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I hate projecting all these faults on this person, this self I have made.
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All this ρrojection talking, is a blocking thinking, I think. Just be, your being, in the best way you can be, that is what I tell my self. I think living, is a hard work, to be described only with words!
And the truth is, for me also...
"I need purpose. I have none. I wish to gain some."
Be great, as always!
I too wondered what I have been defending. I had lost my purpose. I have been a very purposeful person. For a very long time. A very good girl, very good.
During art class with mama I suddenly realized I wasted most of my life being very productive. Hahahaha! It's a good thing that I have never been wasteful.
If I took away the limits of the manisfest world the correct time would not be then, later, yesterday, tomorrow or even now. The correct time would be "always." My problem has always been the limits.
Wonderful post! Thank you.
blocking what? blocking anxiety. we hate anxiety,, will do anything
to get rid of it.
where is james today, oh well, ha, he is always here.
in his own now.
as u are in yer now.
now .
ha, now it is my purpose to create a more brilliant now,
thanks to yr kind words.
beyond our poor imaginations.
this is the real shit:
" suddenly realized I wasted most of my life"
how? well it varies for everyone, but i bet PROJECTION is behind it.
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u say :
" being very productive. .." the only product
worth really considering is the fallout from what you just
did, thought, or felt.
it will imbue the next moment.
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If I took away the limits of the manisfest world the correct time would not be then, later, yesterday, tomorrow or even now. The correct time would be "always." My problem has always been the limits.
there are none. that is our curse as spirits encased in
flesh,
which indeed has limits..
the flesh..not the spirit.
a cruel trick.
u already spewing poetry at me:
"pain in my right shoulder that won't go away,
wondering if I can muster up the gumption to write a post today."
drug the pain.
or experience it in its nowness.
i would advise the former, not the latter.
I would burst forth into the world and let it all out."
doesnt take a puff, i dont think.
it was all in there to begin with, i hope.
whatever gets you to the holy ground.
where no one, i guess, is ever ''remembered'' and praised,
or downgraded, by self or
others.
i suppose that life is just...now. and that now is not
a stable subatomic thing.
or a meta atomic thing, eh?
dont worry i will be as stupid and dim and dull as usual
tomorrow, and yet make the climb up..yet again..
like sissy-fiss
Or am I just projecting :-)?
no need to interfere,
experience.
our own.
the disjunct must be held in respect, for this is you.
how you think..
how we all
think.
another disjunct: we are , all of us, one..individuals..and yet we are also all..universal. ouch. my head hurts.
and spirals infinitely down,
projecting things ont o others,
and then onto the self
which i suppose in grace
or holiness or
now,
or enlightenment,
is another
other, ya?
So, which you are we seeing?
Take it easy on yourself James.
I have to reconsider my defense mechanisms now!