[["In the Christian stage of my journey, I figured this meant stifling the spiritual experience of other people, or stifling other people's interpretations of those experiences"]]
Interesting take. I expect it means entirely different things to each person. It's pretty much "The Most Horrible Thing you can Think Of" (TM) LOL!
[["I have no trouble with having opinions, expressing them or debating, but so often organized groups of people will stiffle the experiences of individuals by coercisan or just plain manipulation (maniulative people can be extrodinarily "nice"). This, and here's another opinion, stems from a false notion of the group and the individual being in conflict. This is faulty logic because a group is nothing more or less than a collection of individuals. Further, every individual is a part of a group, connected to larger systems. "]]]
Yeah, it gets way to complicated to make blanket statements like I did above. Ignore me. I'm in a "mood" today (cackle)...
[[["This idea is very "American" (as in how Americans have been taught to procieve our ideals) in it's feel... Socialist (and Communist, if you want to go to that extreme) ecconomies fail to realise that humans are already interconnected (thus making our resources interconnected), so there is no need to inforce a collective style of distributing resources."]]]
I agree - I never could stand the idea of being a slave to a collective. I am not a hive entity...
Re: Ramblings
[["In the Christian stage of my journey, I figured this meant stifling the spiritual experience of other people, or stifling other people's interpretations of those experiences"]]
Interesting take. I expect it means entirely different things to each person. It's pretty much "The Most Horrible Thing you can Think Of" (TM) LOL!
[["I have no trouble with having opinions, expressing them or debating, but so often organized groups of people will stiffle the experiences of individuals by coercisan or just plain manipulation (maniulative people can be extrodinarily "nice"). This, and here's another opinion, stems from a false notion of the group and the individual being in conflict. This is faulty logic because a group is nothing more or less than a collection of individuals. Further, every individual is a part of a group, connected to larger systems. "]]]
Yeah, it gets way to complicated to make blanket statements like I did above. Ignore me. I'm in a "mood" today (cackle)...
[[["This idea is very "American" (as in how Americans have been taught to procieve our ideals) in it's feel... Socialist (and Communist, if you want to go to that extreme) ecconomies fail to realise that humans are already interconnected (thus making our resources interconnected), so there is no need to inforce a collective style of distributing resources."]]]
I agree - I never could stand the idea of being a slave to a collective. I am not a hive entity...