Aswad
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ORIGINAL: KnightofMists To me there is a huge distinction to be made saying "the beast" as compared to "my inner beast" I don't like this concept of disassociating oneself into parts that are like a seperate entity. This is not different that slut role or etc etc. I believe sometimes this dissassociating is almost on the verge of resisting responsibility for ones choices. We are indeed complex individuals with many parts to ourselves... beast, slut, etc. but using the labels in a way that disconnect them from ourselves is not to me a constructive... in fact I think it inhibits a deeper enjoyment of this part of ourselves. Accept that part as you and enjoy it.... and try to do it responsibly would be my hope. Before our language evolved to a stage where we had distinct words for parts of the mind, it was quite common to use external, anthropomorphized figures to express things that we needed to express, yet lacked the vocabulary for. Hence, your conscience becomes the Accuser (hebr.: Satan'el) that prosecutes you for breaking the social norms that make up your moral code, or your primal rage becomes a bear spirit that overtakes you, and so forth. There may be a benefit to this manner of relating to things, but I would rather tend to agree that it is too easy for some to deflect responsibility onto such proxies. As I've said elsewhere, the "monsters under the bed" tend to stop being a problem when one turns on the light. To ascribe agentive capacity to an urge, instinct or desire, is to imbue it with an autonomy it does not have, and to give it power over the rest of us, as well as providing a million different ways to divorce oneself from the actions that are seen as originating with that fictive agent. One wonders how many people have "lost it" over the years, due to this sort of indirect repression of urges that should be admitted as intrinsic elements of one's being. To say nothing of how many lack an awareness of what the exact extent of this "thing" they refuse to face might be. Health, al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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