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multiplicity_archives2005-08-09 02:31 pm
withfangs.livejournal.com) wrote in multiplicity_archives2005-08-09 02:31 pm
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Mooooooore skeptism
Please bear with me. My boy, Max, posted here a while ago, in regards to me, and he's trying to push me more into having conversations with others about my own doubts with multiplicity.
When I was young, I began studying other religions, and I really became interested in spirituallity. Along the way, I discovered two others living within. Really, this is just background information, so no know thinks I'm trying to troll or rag on the community. I've been aware of my own multiplicity for a number of years. I also see my multiplicity as a means to my own personal spirituallity. That is, I don't have a set religion, but I see the presence of and communication with my system as being a self-enlightening, holy experience.
I see this huge resurgance of multiples on the internet, and it makes me skeptical. NOT, because of the fact that their multiples. I wouldn't call someone out on being a "fake". But, the way some of these systems carry on, it makes me wonder how they can reasonably function.
I'm going to point the finger at soulbonding, because it seems to be the means of multiplicity that houses the greatest number of loonies. I can accept, per se, that another has entered your system, and is a bad influence, and perhaps is forcing your body and system down a bad path. I can not, however, accept that this entity causing harm is, say, Sephiroth from the Final Fantasy games. That, is insane. Final Fantasy is fiction. It may very well be an entity that projects images OF Sephiroth into your mind, but part of gaining some feasible aspect of functional control over yourselves, is seeing through the bullshit.
I have trouble with people who play INTO that bullshit, by extension. Not only do they seem to be the loudest group of loons, but they're also impossible to have a reasonable discussion with. Everything boils down to "it's different for everyone", which is great for upholding any kind of deluded fantasy that you might have, but really, isn't productive for conversation.
Especially...if you're attempting to learn something, or see if they have a reason to act the way that they do.
Are there any rational, sane soulbonds, here? If so, do they honestly believe that they're fictional characters? This seems to be the most levelheaded community about plurality on LJ that we can find, so I figure it would be the best place to start.
When I was young, I began studying other religions, and I really became interested in spirituallity. Along the way, I discovered two others living within. Really, this is just background information, so no know thinks I'm trying to troll or rag on the community. I've been aware of my own multiplicity for a number of years. I also see my multiplicity as a means to my own personal spirituallity. That is, I don't have a set religion, but I see the presence of and communication with my system as being a self-enlightening, holy experience.
I see this huge resurgance of multiples on the internet, and it makes me skeptical. NOT, because of the fact that their multiples. I wouldn't call someone out on being a "fake". But, the way some of these systems carry on, it makes me wonder how they can reasonably function.
I'm going to point the finger at soulbonding, because it seems to be the means of multiplicity that houses the greatest number of loonies. I can accept, per se, that another has entered your system, and is a bad influence, and perhaps is forcing your body and system down a bad path. I can not, however, accept that this entity causing harm is, say, Sephiroth from the Final Fantasy games. That, is insane. Final Fantasy is fiction. It may very well be an entity that projects images OF Sephiroth into your mind, but part of gaining some feasible aspect of functional control over yourselves, is seeing through the bullshit.
I have trouble with people who play INTO that bullshit, by extension. Not only do they seem to be the loudest group of loons, but they're also impossible to have a reasonable discussion with. Everything boils down to "it's different for everyone", which is great for upholding any kind of deluded fantasy that you might have, but really, isn't productive for conversation.
Especially...if you're attempting to learn something, or see if they have a reason to act the way that they do.
Are there any rational, sane soulbonds, here? If so, do they honestly believe that they're fictional characters? This seems to be the most levelheaded community about plurality on LJ that we can find, so I figure it would be the best place to start.
Re: Part One
Ohhh yes. My young friend-with-benefits said that very thing when I first told him about my 'brothers' - big mistake, because he thereby placed himself in Kír's category of "people who are not to be trusted with personal information". Kír's attitude was that he doesn't wish to associate with those who don't acknowledge him as a person; however, this is his house and he wasn't going to hide from my little boyfriend.
This means that when said "little boyfriend" would come to visit, there's times he'd encounter Teh Warrior... who would greet him courteously enough, him being a guest, but wouldn't converse with him, and wouldn't identify himself. LOL, Kír doesn't have to identify himself; he doesn't even have to move or speak for people who know him to know he's there, and people who don't know him to get uneasy because they sense the difference. (My kid says his aura's different, which Kír finds a little unnerving because he doesn't really *believe* in auras.)
Anyway, the "aspect hypothesis" broke down under the weight of evidence - my friend finally acknowledged that it was ridiculous to keep trying to pretend that we're all one person. He and Kír even have sort of a friendship now, or at least cordial acquaintanceship, formal and intellectual though it is.
LOL, and Crist-Erui? He loves it when our young friend comes to visit; snuggles him, plays with him... there again, 'weight-of-evidence'; Crist-Erui's quite a bit stronger than me, and also not ticklish. Hard to explain how one 'aspect' of a 48-year-old woman's mind wrestles like a 20-year-old guy, and keeps winning....