NeantHumain wrote:
]My analysis of why you are sometimes excessively serious and sometimes excessively silly is that you occasionally like a little wine with your meal. Dionysus and Bacchus are your friends.[/color]
I sometimes feel as if I have an as-if personality. That is, I feel I act as if I have a personality but only as if.
i have two friends! riches beyond compare! but what about all the little faeries who live with me? are they not my friends, too?
NeantHumain - "as if", or - as it was orginally termed - "Ahseev" (from the Sanskrit), is, in fact, an ancient medatitive process by which transcendence can be achieved by separating out one's ego/persona/personality, leaving only the pure essence of one's being. it is practised by the most advanced sadhus, along with splitting one's tongue in two, and lifting very heavy weights with one's penis. a person who has achieved such a state of sublime bliss - one who, to all intents and purposes - appears to have no personality whatsoever, is called an "Ahsol", which loosely translates as "opening to the portal of the nethermost regions", a reference to the Ahsol's ability to commune with the underworld.
you may have noticed that this is less of a psychoanalytical approach, and more of a linguistic and spiritual one. some things are just ineffable...