Author Topic: Jed Rant: About Maya  (Read 2430 times)

Neverx2x2

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Re: Jed Rant: About Maya
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2018, 11:59:08 am »
Thanks Jed.

I experienced a damn good laugh with that one... the rhetorical words that eventually came to mind were, "Help! I'm trapped in an out of body experience!"

I once scrutinized the subject of 'third person' when overhearing a conversation at work. It went something like, "I did blah blah blah blah... what was I thinking?" And somebody else says, "What were you thinking?" (with a somewhat scornful tone).

Aside from the evidence pointing at use of past-person to acquire reference to separation, the "What were you thinking." seemed to take on another meaning.... as in, "Get back in your body. That's 'you' that you're talking about."

I've often contemplated speaking of myself in the third person (an audience, a 'me', and a speaker narrating about the 'me'). I adopted the use of the word 'one'.

I have tried speaking of myself as a name. It seems to make others around me uncomfortable (including the 'me' that is getting talked about). It does seem to elicit that 'Get-back-in-your-body' response - or even a language saying, "Don't use me that way."

I've considered 'we'... but that's a little too obvious, and resembles a Gollum/Smeagol configuration - it confuses the identity of the speaker. The audience gets disturbed pretty quick.

So I returned to just using 'one' (accepting the risk of identifying with over-reaching authority). It just seems to go right under the radar, possibly because 'administrator' seems to be the normalized identity that all are taught to seek.

You caught it though  :)
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