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Seekers on Unique Paths

rrneck

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3. Feelings used to mean something.

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 01:26 PM

Jul 2012

They would prompt us to actually do something, and by doing we could examine the product of our desires. But now, we're so rich our feelings are just entertainment because our physical survival is more or less assured. So we feed on our own emotions, and ego runs riot inside us.

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Addiction to the concept of "me" [View all] GliderGuider Jul 2012 OP

"For me to from me..." rrneck Jul 2012 #1

One of the keys seems to be fixing the "subject-object problem". GliderGuider Jul 2012 #2

Feelings used to mean something. rrneck Jul 2012 #3

Thoughts and feelings have always been actors on the stage GliderGuider Jul 2012 #4