Yeah, thanks. I read your other comments and find myself agreeing with you alot. Don't worry about alienation, at least not from me. I don't even really get that upset with people who flat think I'm crazy or stupid, and you didn't come anywhere near saying anything offensive, let alone like that.
For the last part, its interesting for us because I think I can say, without fear of being contradicted, that none of us who are living in our body today, feel attached to it, or even feel as though it is theirs in any real way. The one guy in here who most closely identifies with our physical body is mostly that way because it just sorta happens to be closer to the body he has in our head-world than anyone else's is.
He's relatively at home in it but even he finds it uncomfortable and restricting at times, mostly because he is(inside) and would be(outside if he got out to excercise enough) in really good shape. Unfortunately, he's the only person in here who would really be willing to excercise much and he doesn't because he doesn't come out that often.
As a result, we generally just comply with whatever our wife wants us to look like because she(they) care more than any of us. I generally just see the body as an interface with the outside world anyway, and thus, the way it looks and operates is only important in how well it allows us to interact with the outside world.
So it still has value, and still gets taken care of... just more from a pragmatic set of reasons than because any of us really identify with it or really care for it in our own asthetic sense.
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Date: 2004-10-19 11:45 am (UTC)For the last part, its interesting for us because I think I can say, without fear of being contradicted, that none of us who are living in our body today, feel attached to it, or even feel as though it is theirs in any real way. The one guy in here who most closely identifies with our physical body is mostly that way because it just sorta happens to be closer to the body he has in our head-world than anyone else's is.
He's relatively at home in it but even he finds it uncomfortable and restricting at times, mostly because he is(inside) and would be(outside if he got out to excercise enough) in really good shape. Unfortunately, he's the only person in here who would really be willing to excercise much and he doesn't because he doesn't come out that often.
As a result, we generally just comply with whatever our wife wants us to look like because she(they) care more than any of us. I generally just see the body as an interface with the outside world anyway, and thus, the way it looks and operates is only important in how well it allows us to interact with the outside world.
So it still has value, and still gets taken care of... just more from a pragmatic set of reasons than because any of us really identify with it or really care for it in our own asthetic sense.