Personhood

I can tell you something generalized.

I was thinking along these lines as I walked me dogs, blessed with the physical sciatic pain in my walk.

Nobody is that person.

I’ll repeat. Nobody is that person. That you know.

I mean, of course, in both senses: nobody is that person that you think you know. And *that* you should know.

Of course, all these people out there that you observe, that you know, that you’ve made acquaintance with, that you like, that you dislike, the ones you have done, the ones you have failed to do: they’re all playing a role, putting on an act, a pretense. Sure. And, sometimes, on a good day (or a particularly heinous bad one) you can even recognize in yourself the role that you are pretending to play. Image, Imago, imagine!

It runs deeper than all that, though. We are playing a deeper role and pretending even bigger in a big way to be a person at all. I am not. You are not. None of us are. You should know this. What good knowing does, who can know?

And it doesn’t matter, your beliefs. Believe what you will. Put on the personhood that you will. Free Willy!

Your beliefs are more tangible to you than the God that you profess to believe in. I should say that again but I won’t because I don’t have to or shouldn’t have to. You love your beliefs! I’ll say that again. You love your beliefs! They are part and parcel with your personhood. None of it is real. Nothing to get hung about.

Moreover it is this tangible thing you are truly in love with. There is no way you, a non-person, can love or experience the base connection you need for love except on what is the tangible level for what you know to be a tangible thing also, your personhood, I mean. It is not real. No matter if the “tangible” and the “real” is all you can understand. No matter at all. Nothing matters and what if it did? Except black lives, of course! (non-sarcastic [sic] humor warning) So take heed of what you “love” literally to “death”.

Live as a spirit and connect with spirit and treat other spirits as spirits and transcend this unreal “reality” that ties you into binds. There are no tiers of people. There are no hierarchies of beliefs. Value and valuation are false constructs. Now is forever and forever is now and your personhood life “span” doesn’t even register on the measuring scale of eternity.

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