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Couple word definitions need correcting.
(But it's a Popular mindset, I'll grant) -
The only difference is humans have this thing called sentience which allocates the knowledge of guilt and poking your neighbor who has a rod like yours is deemed unsound practice by most other sentient creatures.
Sentience has damn-all to do with toddler-conditioned mindsets of the sort which inculcate the idea of
guilt! .. or more precisely:
The idea of
Tribble-like born-pregnant Born Guilty of Original Sin\ufffd. In fact this particular masochistic priest-invented rod for managing the flock: is a peculiarity of the bellicose, Gold-besotted er 'Western School' of mangling the nascent psyches of innocent children.. often for life.
*Most* of the people on this planet do not share such aberrant practices - though many millions have developed their own and other disgusting rituals .. to try and keep their offspring too! from climbing much further from the caves than has Daddy. (That last may be one commonality among all those who deem a child to be [merely]
*My Chance* for Immortality cha cha cha.)
No indeed -
sentience is about the capacity to contemplate abstractions like 'ideas', and to recognize [for want of a simpler term not sure to be misunderestimated]
The Fact That I Am. We suppose ... ... that most other 'animals' lack that self-mirror, though recent experience with Chimps: leaves the matter wide open.
Sentience, however - doesn't guarantee that one shall become very good at discriminating the differences among sucky-ideas, marketed or just plain silly- ideas and.. Other-ideas. But this word assuredly does not come freighted with your Judeo-Xian-Puritan aberrations. THAT kind of language-fucking lies behind the endless God-Wars.. I thought you already knew that ?!
We are infinitely malleable beings.. only some -not all- tend towards encasing that state within Ready-Mix concrete. These encased ones are the lawful prey of priests (who mix and pour).
Oh.. the short form: I demur in your definition of Me.
There's a Lot of that Defining of Not-Me/Others going on... seems to have started about the time that the First Marketer appeared. In a robe of some sort, or was it a smock? (Pssst - want Eternal Life\ufffd\ufffd? OK. Here's the terms - don't forget my vigorish!.. every week now, y'hear?!)
Ashton
I Am That I Am
and I don't need your assistance in spinning that into,
I Am What You Think/Insist/GotTold I Am
thankyouverymuch