01-01-2013, 12:48 PM
(01-01-2013, 11:56 AM)GentleReckoning Wrote: Would you pick a different term than lust given the chance?
I feel that all connotations with lust are negative.
Lust is synonymous with passion. Which is positive.
Of course, the common use of the term is more synonymous with the will to possess, which is much like control.
He is free to perceive online identities in whatever light he chooses. The confusion of identifying an internet persona is not much different than the confusion of identifying the real self. it is on the other side of.......yet another wall.
I have already done the work of removing every memory and experience going back through time, just to see what else there is to make up my "self". What I found is that the personality is a program, artificial intelligence derived from comparison of experience. Such a well designed program that it believes in itself. I would say that the core OS of the program is belief.