RE: The Fantastic Human Capacity for Transformation.
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I enjoyed reading your perspective on this topic my friend, thank you for sharing with us. Nicely written!
I can identify as a changeling I think ;D
In that I've always harbored this ingrained belief that no outside source of authority was or ever is to maintain authority over my being and what I choose to do or who I choose to be.
I think a genuine person will go through slow progressions of change if they are able to identify areas of their life they would like to improve.
Someone who may not be as genuine may quickly make "role player" changes and be quickly identified as phony by their social circle(s).
Overall perceptive awareness of oneself and otherly awareness (as I like to call it) may be the distinguishing factor between someone who is more grounded in who they think/know they are, and someone who doesn't.
At the beginning stages of adulthood I chose to be identified as an alcoholic drug addict. It wasn't until I could see that I was making the ultimate choice to live this identity, and it wasn't until I realized that the social circles enjoyed victimhood grounded group recovery sessions that I said "screw this, I want to be someone else.", and was able to make the appropriate lifestyle changes, that true changeling transformation occurred. There's a lot of "Stone him!" that comes with this type of thinking of course. Misery loves company :D
Sometimes choosing to identify as something can have permanent impacts. In so many ways, because of the lifestyle choices that come with the identity choice.
The LGBTQ group from my perspective is one that fights for recognition, validation, and acceptance.
Imagine if a pubescent is manipulated into a sex change, only to later realize it was the worst decision that someone else made for them of their life.. This person has a choice if they have changelinged their stance on the social group. They either fight against it, in defense of protection of children and natural development or from some other standpoint, or instead they forever defend it, likely from a victimhood standpoint.
Then there's the aspect of whoever that persons parent is. They have similar choices to make in another context entirely. It would be quite a burden to bear to a self aware parent to realize they assisted in altering their child in a way they can never fix back to normal. But then again a self aware parent would probably never allow their child to get a sex change.
The rabbit hole goes very deep on this one, especially noting the agendas behind socially retarded political agendas.
I think I'll leave it there for now.
This was enjoyable to consume with my morning coffee,
Greetings friend.
Thank you so much, I am pleased to have given you and your coffee a good morning time :)
Have you watched the Startrek clip? Even better would be the whole episode. I was fascinated by this narration because it clarifies something I needed many words for:)
I remember my adolescence where I made the decision to replace my glasses with contact lenses and adopted a certain - copied from others - cheekiness that I practiced from then on. Not that I did it very elegantly, more a growing into adulthood through trial and error. This "from ugly duckling to beautiful swan" was a deliberately chosen role, because I saw that as a young woman one could definitely have advantages in life that I had not been able to use as a child up to that point, because I was a child.
My first real boyfriend was a "jack of all trades". At the age of twenty, he had already acquired a lot of general knowledge and developed a sense of trends. There are people like him of whom one says "you can put them in any society and they will fit in without any problems". He was like that and I learned a lot from him. The same was said of me later. It is not so irritating for friends or the social circle who meet you like that if you are already a changeling when they meet you.
Are you sure? Couldn't it be that you tried drugs and alcohol and enjoyed them at first? Identity not as a conscious decision, but maybe more out of a sense of comfort? From my own experience, I would say that "getting into a scene" is more out of curiosity and a desire to try things out, and "getting out" of it is more of a conscious step because you realise that the scene is holding you too tightly in its claws.
HaHa! Well said! I can relate to this. You don't get popularity points if you move away from a shared identity because the others would like to keep you habitual. A political party is an example par excellence in this respect, as deviation is hardly possible there. In external presentation, "unity is a must".
A decision is not ultimate in my view, unless you die shortly after one :) Since we are in the constant process of experiencing and it is indeed the case that we often change identity without realising it, "ultimate", for me, is something thought rather than lived. But if one really believes that one belongs to this or that category, it becomes a problem. Then people experience each other as immobile. "To be real" is, on the basis of my content, "to interact changeably according to a situation". To be inauthentic would be to commit oneself to a role or to become so attached to it that one wants to force one's fellow world to treat one only according to the chosen role. It may seem upside down but I think it's upside down the other way :D
I split my response in two parts. The next is following.
Technology always presents new challenges that reach into the world and create facts. For example, the fact of organ transplantation. Or the fact of sperm donation. Now we have people with transplanted organs and children who don't know their fathers as sperm donors, for example.
We will have people who have had their sex changed surgically and hormonally and they will not all - by guarantee - be happy and content with that for the rest of their lives. Just as new once was the finding of trauma (physical and mental). No matter what you take, when you reach adulthood you have no choice but to come to terms with what you have decided for yourself or what others have decided for you.
In relation to my text, I wanted to express that it doesn't necessarily take a surgical or biochemical change to recognise that people have a need for identity change and that you want to feel like a woman and like a man, like a hybrid or whatever fantastic being, without immediately resorting to very drastic means. Carnival, for example, I have always seen as a suitable opportunity to slip into other roles that one often already imagined inwardly.
This time of year is called the "fooling season" in our country. Where you can take it to the extreme and try things out without being socially ostracised because everyone is doing it. It's truly a colourful time. The Love Parade was another such affair. Instead of abolishing such festivals, badmouthing them or underestimating them culturally, we are in the process of abandoning this kind of tradition and individuals don't know exactly where they go with their needs of this kind. That's why I find places like Las Vegas so significant, because the change game is socially acceptable there.
The rest would be the exception that proves the rule.
From my point of view, LGBTQ is not a homogene group. So I find it wrong to use this term because it's unspecific.