Coolness... yes that helps. I haven't seemed to place much value on the semantics involved with my system. Yet, in another conversation I was having, I had an Ah-Ha moment about the importance of getting our words as close as possible to the concept we are trying to describe. Itsa all com'n togetha now.
So, it seems to me that my system is made of both people and parts - and I'll futher define parts to mean consciousnesses that are separate unto themselves but have not experienced enough to be fully functioning people. (IE: a fragment or splinter that was awake and in time for a 10 minute moment and that is his or her entire experience of reality.)
You mentioned a difference between inside people that come from splits off a core identity and other people. Please elaborate.... Most of my people are pieces that split off and then became fully functional in their own right. There are "others" in the system, but they really serve in the function as guides or guardians and I don't consider them to be sharing the body or the life in the same sense as my people.
Whew!
And... it appears that you have a separate icon for each voice that speaks, yet your user name remains the same. Is that an easy trick to explain?
(Not that it would do any good in a practical for Us at this time... while I can usually tell when the voice changes, identifying the speaker is impossible 9 times out of 10.)
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Re: Regarding terminology
Date: 2004-02-13 08:06 am (UTC)So, it seems to me that my system is made of both people and parts - and I'll futher define parts to mean consciousnesses that are separate unto themselves but have not experienced enough to be fully functioning people. (IE: a fragment or splinter that was awake and in time for a 10 minute moment and that is his or her entire experience of reality.)
You mentioned a difference between inside people that come from splits off a core identity and other people. Please elaborate.... Most of my people are pieces that split off and then became fully functional in their own right. There are "others" in the system, but they really serve in the function as guides or guardians and I don't consider them to be sharing the body or the life in the same sense as my people.
Whew!
And... it appears that you have a separate icon for each voice that speaks, yet your user name remains the same. Is that an easy trick to explain?
(Not that it would do any good in a practical for Us at this time... while I can usually tell when the voice changes, identifying the speaker is impossible 9 times out of 10.)
Danke for your patience und help...
Mirth!