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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Touches on what I have been thinking just latterly.

People are fashionably alienated from their bodies. They forget that their bodies are intrinsically part of themselves.

For many, mention of a *soul* is forbidden talk as too religious.

So I must phrase such conversations as the body is part of one's identity, or being, or personality or individual nature.

For them I liken it to a dog. A dog tends to be in touch with its body. A poodle doesn't think that it is a rottweiler.

This also leads me to declare that people who clip their dogs and dress them in clothes and ribbons are messing with the dog.

Other dogs can spot these transdogs and such transdogs will sense the response that they get from other dogs as hurtful to their sense of self confidence. It confuses the dog that has been toyed with.

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Rightful Freedom's avatar

"A way of thinking which is reductive, mechanistic has taken us over..."

Yes. Physicalist reductionism is a philosophical doctrine, i.e. materialism, not the 'consumerism' kind but the idea that only physical matter is real and exists. The average person does not know what physicalist reductionism is or that it exists, let alone that it is accepted as "the truth" by almost all philosophers and theoretical physicists. But it is the basis of leftism from Hobbes to Marx to the present. And it permeates all thought now.

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