It is interesting to note that “human being” … the thing itself … is not a thing. Human “being” is a happening, an ongoing event, a constant revealing. The word "being" is a verb, not a noun. Shocking!
We human beings are an interesting lot. We put ourselves together with words. We interpret ourselves with conversations that we have with ourselves about ourselves, and then we act out those conversations; we express and hence, experience those conversation as "real about me." Have you given that any thought? No other critter on this planet can do that.
Are you willing to stand in the possibility that you interpret yourself with words, and your life-work is an expression of those interpretations? Are you willing to try that on and look at your life from that perspective?
Your self is your "ways of being," it's no specific way of being. You are a clearing for myriad "ways of being". That's pretty far out stuff, yet it's the truth. Truth and reality are one and the same. What's real for you is true for you. Yet, what's real for you may be a far cry different than what's real for someone else. Wow!
So, that's what I have to say for now. The self has no specific qualities or specific abilities. It is unqualified and unlimited ways of being.
What it means to be a human being
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And yet society demand we chose, and be, only one version. It really is a pity.
This is why they call it one's 'subjective reality'. For it is the truth as we experience it. I once had a professor who who explained that how we experience life is all to do with our worldview. That we are confined within it. Our worldview from the bars that determines our outlook on the rest of reality. The worldview of each being different to the others, and that we cannot perceive reality without having to look through the bars that our subjective life experience and, subsequently, our worldview has constructed, in order to perceive the world.
Many argue that the one cannot be realized without the other, that they innnately influence our perspectives on life and how we place and center ourselves in it.
It is, truly, unfortunate that we do not (normatively) allow ourselves to be anything and everything we are truly capable of.
This is why they call it one's 'subjective reality'. For it is the truth as we experience it. I once had a professor who who explained that how we experience life is all to do with our worldview. That we are confined within it. Our worldview from the bars that determines our outlook on the rest of reality. The worldview of each being different to the others, and that we cannot perceive reality without having to look through the bars that our subjective life experience and, subsequently, our worldview has constructed, in order to perceive the world.
Many argue that the one cannot be realized without the other, that they innnately influence our perspectives on life and how we place and center ourselves in it.
It is, truly, unfortunate that we do not (normatively) allow ourselves to be anything and everything we are truly capable of.
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Quite Interesting mean of "Human Being" a culture-bearing primate classified in the genus Homo, especially the species H. sapiens. Human beings are anatomically similar
