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Originally Posted by greywolf90  wow great stuff og. i love your whole concept of self, sacrifice, and core. i never really thought about self sacrifice really being an extension of self preservation, but it really makes sense to me now. your point on how the brain sacrifices the arm in order to protect itself reminded me of apoptosis, where billions of your cells kill themselves for the benefit of the core. it also never occured to me that your self can be extended beyond your body (i vaguely remember you mentioning this sometime before, but i didn't understand it). your ideas really gave me some food for thought.  |
You do not understand sacrifice if you think this.
This explanation of self sacrifice is put forth by people who can not see beyond themselves. The ego raises itself, or lowers everything around it, to try and equal itself to all things. In effect it puts their ego as divine because their ego can not see anything bigger than itself. The ego can not justify its death and thus it explains this to itself as such to make sense of that witch it does not understand … killing itself for something else. Ego does not understand this, for to the ego, there is nothing else but itself. There is nothing else but the body.