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I very much appreciate all of you for devoting more importance to understanding games than to being enthralled in them. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, hehehehe!
The two stories, Alessandro's and Robin's, show how smooth and simple our lives can go when we grant others beingness. The morale of the story I took away from reading that post is to choose one's interactions wisely. For example, after interacting on Facebook for a couple of years I decided to politely delete all my over 200 "friends", go private, and join and interact in only carefully selected groups. Whenever I receive a friend request I check the person's timeline and most of the time I politely decline telling them I only join select groups and that we can always message with each other. I join groups that support my current importances and are well monitored for complementariness and sometimes I can give help or support when it is asked of the group. The less I need to be a "somebody" to others or need others to be a "somebody" to me makes me a happier "nobody". And isn't that where we are going - No Body? And it is not that not having a body is what frees us like completing Level Five does. Freedom can be had with or without a body. Colleen
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