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To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face; Darksheare
My subconscious works harder than I do

Same here, but my subconscious doesn't seem to get tired, or have aches and pains.

I hope our subconscious is who we really are. Being stuck in a body gets old really fast.

273 posted on 02/05/2012 12:40:34 PM PST by fanfan (This is not my Father's Ontario. http://www.ontariolandowners.ca/)
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To: fanfan

Well, Sis, we will all leave behind our Mortal Shells when the times come, and all we have to do is “endure” and have faith that we will, indeed, go to a much better place that knows no aches, no pains, no gray hair, no wrinkles and no more worries.

This earth is the time to struggle. The other side is the time to relax because we WILL be perfect.

*hug*


274 posted on 02/05/2012 12:44:14 PM PST by Monkey Face (Stop repeat offenders. Don't re-elect them!)
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To: fanfan; Monkey Face; Darksheare
"... my subconscious doesn't seem to get tired, or have aches and pains.

I hope our subconscious is who we really are. Being stuck in a body gets old really fast."

No, you don't hope that. In "Forbidden Planet" we learned that the subconscious is subject to all the irrational grievances our better selves would cast aside.

The subconscious is our servant, much like the house elf Kreacher in the Harry Potter books, a bitter, muttering discontent condemned to obey, but who does so only through compulsion.

Another description is that it is the residence of our "lizard brain", which obeys only appetites.

Aches and pains are similar servants, ever attentive, but only of use in sapping our will.

"Being stuck in a body gets old really fast."

It's not the being stuck in the body that gets old, it's the body itself. The body ages, but the mind can be what you want it to be. I want mine to be happy, so I tell it that it is in charge of all these muttering minions.

When Pain shows up, my mind just says, "Well, all right! We're getting the band back together!"

279 posted on 02/05/2012 1:11:14 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
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