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BigJohn 22-10-2019 06:03 AM

EGO: BELIEF SYSTEM CREATOR?
 
Do our egos create new belief systems or at least modify existing belief systems?

ocean breeze 22-10-2019 07:12 AM

Is not our own egos just a belief? How did the ego come to exist? Where does it exist? Who or what created the ego?

Busby 22-10-2019 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by BigJohn
Do our egos create new belief systems or at least modify existing belief systems?



No, our imaginations do.

sky 22-10-2019 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Busby
No, our imaginations do.




Imagination is ego...

sky 22-10-2019 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by BigJohn
Do our egos create new belief systems or at least modify existing belief systems?




Yes, and the ego of others also created the belief systems that we are trying to modify :biggrin:

MAYA EL 22-10-2019 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by sky123
Imagination is ego...


Not exactly.
The imagination creates all the things that we think about that are not yet here and now as well as 99% of are thinking process in general.
The ego is Latin for I meaning identity/ personality which is created as a tool by the imagination but it is a byproduct of the imagination therefore not the same thing

Busby 22-10-2019 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by sky123
Imagination is ego...


Your ego (and mine, and Fred's) is sitting in a small corner of our imagination. It's a tiny light in the planet's human imagination and one teeny-weeny twinkle of the universe's imagination.

hallow 22-10-2019 12:25 PM

When we're thinking about "ego" are we talking about the actual definition of it? Or ego as something else? Just want to make sure because sometimes words change definition.

sky 22-10-2019 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by MAYA EL
Not exactly.
The imagination creates all the things that we think about that are not yet here and now as well as 99% of are thinking process in general.
The ego is Latin for I meaning identity/ personality which is created as a tool by the imagination but it is a byproduct of the imagination therefore not the same thing




Let's agree to differ :smile:

Lorelyen 22-10-2019 03:10 PM

Ego gets such bad press here. Without one an entity has no identity. They'd have no public face.

When you speak of ego and imagination remember that they exist only because of the sum total of your life experiences (and if you so believe, past lives) and how you assimilated them, much of the action stored well away from the "conscious mind" if you use Freud's model of mind.

Bibo ergo sum. :smile:


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