15-03-2015, 04:57 PM
(15-03-2015, 07:42 AM)MissC Wrote: I do not consider myself schizophrenic in the least. I am an integrated person of indefinite gender....I think this means we are only differing on semantics. If you believe in a spirit, you are saying you have a single spirit, not two, and that your spirit doesn't have two sides. It has its itself, and that self is not stuck in any role, and does not have to switch between them to deal with the experiences of life. Of course, one of the cool things about stuff like spirits is that anybody can define them any way they like.
On the buddha reference, it never fails to cause me incredulity that anyone who acts like they really believe there is some kind of being or conscientiousness invisible to us, untouchable by us, incomprehensible to us, that they can somehow name it, give it a role, define it societally, and create rules for living based on these names, roles, and rules.