There are these 3 orientations of the self:Towards itselfTowards othersTowards GodPeople usually have a mixture of these with one or two predominating the others.Romans 12:1-2 reminds that pleasing God can only be possible through a living sacrifice of the body and a transformation of the mind to be able to discern God's acceptable will.Galatians 1:10 challenges is to please God and not the world.Jung talked of the mass man who falls prey to the images of the collective consciousness (what the world is demanding as ideal) rather than listening...
Shaping a Scientific Sense of Self
SCIENCE
SELF
Causality (determinant factors)
Self-determination (freedom)
Essentiality (defining features)
Social disguise/identity (façade/front)
Objectivity (definite facts)
Subjective dispositions (feelings)
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Grammar, Culture, and Transgender
October 15, 2019
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Accepting an anomaly into the grammar of social-culture might introduce meaning confusions and so humans naturally resist any disturbance of the prevailing system of meaning which is crucial for any proper communication/socialization to take place. That is an important factor why in traditional Asian societies like India, the transgender had to group away into a community of their own with their own socio-cultural grammar system that was different from the others. However, with the rise of liberalism, individualism, and postmodernism, systems of...
