Mooooooore skeptism
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multiplicity_archivesPlease 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.
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(mostly) off the soulbond thing...
Date: 2005-08-10 12:20 am (UTC)For me this goes for about anything on the 'net, although I don't know if I'd call it a -re-surgeance per se. I think the internet encourages specific modes of interaction (one being the journal/blog with or without comments enabled, and the other being the alt.* Usenet ethos that's bled over into LJ communities and other corners of the net) where it's a lot easier to find the people who are either newly-emerged whatevers (breastfeeding mums, polyamorists, multiples, Harley lovers) or the radical heavily involved sort-of - elite.
'Cause that tends to be when people are really *really* verbal about things; once one's life settles down to fairly regular every day living, the attraction of arguing about it decreases some. Of course there are a lot of people in the middle simply by virtue of being mouthy and liking that style (like me!) but they don't always set the *tone* of things.
Also the 'net remains skewed somewhat young, demographically - particularly something like a LJ community.
It's one reason I think it's a two-edged sword that people are now learning about multiplicity from the 'net. Yay, that it doesn't always have to go through the survivor/sensational publishing/media mill. Yay that people can interact. But at the same time, if people don't realize that the tone of online communities doesn't always match the reality of multiples within the broader real-world community, it can just create new stereotypes. Sigh. Minorities suck that way, to be in one. :-)
On another tangent - I know there's a lot of crossover between multiplicity and soulbonding, but I know about that >< much about soulbonding. I don't think you were saying they are always together but I thought I'd say so. :)