Thank you, Bob.
It’s more of an implication than an alternative.
There are many variations.
Is self=other a “contradiction”?
To this:
Good is defined as a self recognizing the other as another self, and so negating double standards.
Each self aligning all imaginations with the good will solve all the problems you have with imagination.
Once in alignment with the good, there is no limit to the imagination. Against such things there is no law (made for errant persons, not persons for law).
The Good (self=other) is the only unmade law. Any law out of alignment with it is no law at all.
@PZR replied:
How can there be another self if self=other? Wouldn’t it all just be one self? One’s self? … very simply noted … obvious … contradiction
I replied:
God is the omnitemporal/transtemporal union of three selves. The only true panentheism.
The rest of us are three (in his image), but there is an imbalance that breaks the unity, which can only be balanced/restored by willfully resuming the original position (formal/final cause). One Being (in three persons), many beings (in Being’s image). That’s not something we do, it’s just an invitation we accept.
There are no natural born citizens of the kingdom. Only invited citizens who accept. God is not a dictator, but he doesn’t need your vote.
In a different thread, I said this in different words:
Two ways to upset the balance of consent respect/recognition and treat or be treated like some special/other kind of special/other:
above and beyond everybody else’s specialness/otherness
below and beneath everybody else’s specialness/otherness
Replace every “body else’s” with every “selves”.
Answering @Ecmandu on self not equaling other… differing capacities & preferences make us unique, so each self has essence in common, but also otherness… summarizing from Double-Edged Golden Rule: Double-Edged Golden Rule (self=other) - #11 by Ichthus77
every self/other is an other/self to another self
Answering FJ: Look at your constructs around you. - #101 by Flannel_Jesus
You’re still avoiding the question, ightthas!
I have not avoided it. I showed you how I already answered it repeatedly. What I showed you was not even exhaustive.
This is very simple. Yet you have not answered it.
Yeah huh.
Assolutely.
Still waiting for you to show me how “a self recognizing an other as another self“ Is a contradiction.
It’s a contradiction is you wish to simultaneously claim that
Does this help clarify?
No, it is completely idiotic.
Isn’t that your official position on everything?
Imagine if it wasn’t, but it was only my position on idiotic things, but when you looked at it you thought it was everything?
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Summing-up the shoddy thinking, right there^
You don’t even try to put anything forth… perhaps it’s time?
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Ok armchair whatevs.
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Keep…
won’tcha!