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That is not very different from any philosopher claiming to have had a key insight after introspection (or study of the external world, or both) and developed a new philosophical system.

But not everybody is a philosopher.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:06:48 PM EST
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I agree, but one does not have to be a philosopher to change your myth. I assume the philosophers are the ones we hear about or read from - but there are more people out there who have been able to change their narrativ.

by Fran on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:19:39 PM EST
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I think you tend to hear from people who change their structural narrative because it results in such a fundamental change to the self and so it is perceived by them as an event worthy of being communicated to others.

Think of all the born-again Christians who can't stop trying to save others by convincing them to accept Jesus Christ as their personal saviour.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:22:38 PM EST
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Some, but I know quite a few who have no desire to try to convince others to of their new structural narrativ.

And not everyone who changes their narrative become a born again Christian. :-)

by Fran on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:25:56 PM EST
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And not everyone who changes their narrative become a born again Christian. :-)

That's not what I said, I said that everyone who is a born-again Christian has changed their narrative.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:28:48 PM EST
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Sorry, my heavy-handed way of teasing you.

by Fran on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:29:58 PM EST
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Tsk, tsk.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:30:19 PM EST
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You make a lovely couple... :)

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:36:27 PM EST
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And not everyone who changes their narrative become a born again Christian. :-)

Thankfully.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 04:40:07 PM EST
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Fran:

not everyone who changes their narrative become a born again Christian

Here's a conceptual metaphor for you: "falling off the horse on the way to Damascus".

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 28th, 2009 at 04:34:38 AM EST
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not everybody is a philosopher.

yet!

everybody lives by some kind of philosophy, consciously or not.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Aug 30th, 2009 at 08:41:49 AM EST
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