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Old 01-22-2004, 10:27 AM  
jungar
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Drawing back from my philosophy 101 course, I believe it was Nietzsche who said that all living beings have a natural tendancy to gravitate toward the unattainable state of perfection.

What stops us from making progress toward this state is when we restrain our natural animal instincts. In order for us to restrain ourselves, we have to develop ideas, or concepts, about the real-world.

Eventually, we develop so many concepts that it skews our perception of reality. We act according to how we percieve our world. This will end up influencing how we think of ourselves which effects our identity!

And so, we walk around with a skewed, or phoney identity! To rid ourselves of this phoney identity, we have to turn back to our animal instincts!

Deep thoughts, by Joshua Ungar

Regards,

Joshua Ungar
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