On Aug 28, 8:24 pm, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > You are somewhat of a riddle Slip. I like it! <
Well thanks, Ash, actually the Riddler in the movie Bat Man is based on one of my fictitious past lives. Now for my next riddle: What is ornamental but has a very small mind? For the answer click the link below. http://www.australianfauna.com/ornamentalsnake.php That's right, this poisonous slithering creature despite it's decorative appearance doesn't do much except eat and just attack frogs; now there is an ego for ya. Sounds like a very picky eater. Well gotta go before Bat Man and Robin find out I'm here. Adios Amigo! On Aug 28, 8:24 pm, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > You are somewhat of a riddle Slip. I like it! > > On 8/28/2010 7:58 PM, Slip Disc wrote: > > > I think existence itself is ego, that is, ego that is manifest in > > physical form. Gwill is right by addressing the various uses of term > > ego in this thread, such as inflated or deflated ego, ego trip, ego > > maniac etc. I see the ego being the core of life itself, the core of > > who we are, the internal that is expressed outward. Animals also are > > ego displayed by domination, alpha, acquiescence and deferment to the > > top dog etc. Ego at the moment of conception defines who and what we > > are but after one has developed within the environmental world ego > > branches off into splinter groups of ego, alter ego and such and at > > which time the term ego takes on all mundane aspects. Ego lives > > beyond our physicality, beyond anything we can imagine. Ego is a part > > of cosmology. All physical beings are on a "ego trip", literally. > > > On Aug 28, 3:23 pm, rigsy03<[email protected]> wrote: > >> It might be confused with pride or self-preservation. I agree with > >> your definition. > > >> Here is another angle: "Does Your Language Shape How You Think?" by > >> Guy Deutscher http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html > >> I was thinking, while reading this article, that there are even more > >> culprits than language such as gender, class, religion and so on. > > >> On Aug 28, 10:55 am, [email protected] wrote: > > >>> One of the serious confusions in this thread is the alternative > >>> definitions of the concept of ego. The common understanding of ego is > >>> equated with conceit - as in egotistical. Used in psychoanalysis the > >>> concept of ego (along with the superego, the id and the self ) are > >>> components of the structure of the self. From this perspective the > >>> concept of ego functions like a traffic cop mediating between the desires > >>> of the id (I want what I want when I want it ) and the super ego (the > >>> voice of laws: shoulds and should nots). > >>> In short the ego psychoanalytically is the voice of reason - > >>> thoughtfulness. > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: gruff<[email protected]> > >>> To: "Minds Eye"<[email protected]> > >>> Sent: Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:09 am > >>> Subject: [Mind's Eye] Re: Understanding: Mind, Consciousness, Thought > >>> Allow me to introduce Occam's Razor, which was first articulated by > >>> William of Occam in the thirteenth century. It postulates that all > >>> else being equal, simpler explanations should be preferred over more > >>> complex ones. > >>> What is being explored here sounds more like religion than science. > >>> Can we slice it down to it's simplest form? > >>> Ego! I suspect all animals have it to one degree or another but with > >>> regard human beings, we could not live without one. Scaling ego, I'd > >>> have to say that the more insecure the individual the greater the > >>> ego. I suspect there is a level or range of ego which allows us to > >>> exist but when our consciousness goes below that level, we shrivel, > >>> and when it goes above that level we swell up like an over-inflated > >>> balloon and burst.- Hide quoted text - > >>> - Show quoted text -
