> People seem to get a little too hung up on their labels, I think.
> Especially among people who give up their Selves and conform themselves
> to some outside faith, like forcing a square peg into a round hole just
> like everyone else has. If the hole is big enough or the peg small
> enough, it'll go through, but it still keeps an odd, uncomfortable sort
> of quality about it. But if everyone else is doing it, it must be okay
> and expected of you, regardless of what misgivings you might have.
> That seems to be the mentality of religionists from where I sit. Kind
> of gone off on a tangent there, but my original thought was that to
> some people, many things just cannot seem to "properly" exist until
> it's labelled.
I can see where this is coming from although I do not know that entirely
agree with it. I suppose you are speaking largely of the world's major
known religions. I've always felt a freedom NOT to conform in my own path
and that I should be who and what I want to be.
As for labels, I can also see your point although don't know if I agree.
I
don't really see why there's such a movement and hangup AGAINST labels.
So
what's wrong with saying "I am this"? I can see where labels can create
strict boundaries within a person's mind or even become a crutch. I still
don't entirely agree. Are our own names not labels thrust upon us by
parents at birth?
Or what about the labels we give to the inanimate things in our life? If
I
tell you that a table is a daisy but yet you insist it's a table, does
this
mean that you are hung up on the label given to that object and unable to
see beyond that word to what the object truly is?
> Here's something to ponder: did time exist before we decided to
> measure it?
Did the sun not rise and set? Did the moon not rise and set? Did the
moon
not wax, become full and wane? Did days not happen one after another in
succession?
Here's something else to ponder: did we as humans really exist before we
began calling ourselves by a word to identify ourselves (i.e., naming
ourselves) or were the earliest existence of humans simply unsophisticated
animals incapable as any other animal of ever acting on anything but
instincts and without thought? Should such ability to think and reason
and
evolve in a mental and emotional sense be shunned and humans return to
such
animalistic behaviour simply for the sake of shunning labels?
L
|
