How do I refer to myself in the third person without feeling like Gollum?
Instead of feeling like Gollum you could feel like "The Rock" (Dwayne Johnson).
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#162I wonder when it will become taboo to know one's birth name.
can't tell if you indeed don't know about taboos about birth names or you are being ironic... It's hard to detect irony online
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but I hope the parent comment's author doesn't refer to himself as "we" while speaking in public
What I described is more of an internal monologue thing, not even at linguistic level but as an attitude and stance towards stress with anxiety. Should have phrased it better.
You phrased it alright
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Two ideas: * Create duplicate account with different persona and make them talk. Fun on reddit. * Start roleplaying and mostly dming. One of my favorite experience in life.
I feel like the former is a lot of the Internet in the late nineties. People pretending to be someone they’re not. Nobody knows you’re a dog in the Internet.
The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.
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#165In high school, it was wearing a three-piece suit (because if you're not wearing a vest, are you really wearing a suit?) for all of my speech and debate events; now, it's wearing one of my kilts. For those of us with anxiety, esp social anxiety this entire article isn't necessarily surprising, as many of us use some form of externalizing our confidence to get through big presentations, meetings, etc. If I've got an i…
This sounds like "peacocking" from the pick up community. Yes, it's extremely sad I know this.
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#166Hip hop artists use alter egos to explore different stage personas and styles. e.g. Daniel Dumile as MF Doom, King Ghidra, Viktor Vaughn or Eminem as Slim Shady.
Oh sweet I don't see many MF DOOM fans in the wild!
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#167I've long been fascinated by the complex imaginal techniques of tantra in Tibetan Buddhism, in which you vividly imagine yourself as a yidam, or tutelary deity. Via intense concentration on elaborate self-visualization, repetition of the yidam's mantra, and ritualized hand gestures (mudra), you take on the form, attributes and mind of the yidam for the purpose of transformation - to recognize that one's own mind is n…
From my reading + limited experience, it’s “manifesting” the deity, melting into / with it.
So not about an egotistical desire to become something great but more like becoming / embodying the manifestation.
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#168I need an alto ego... Frederick König. I am a man who can sit for hours working productively at his computer. I am a man who is not affected by boredom. I desire nothing more than to sit, and code. My productivity is off the charts and I am being considered for a promotion. I have excellent coding ability and can apply it with ease by sitting, and coding, for hours, and hours.
I am Roberto Sebastian.
Instead of coding for long hours, I invent elegant solutions solving complex problems simply and fast.
Also sometimes Ben M. Faulkner, a charming gentleman who effortlessly guides multiple people into his grand vision.
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Why would you respect someone for sacrificing and fighting for what they think is just? Osama Bin Laden wasn't too different either. Many Islamic terrorists were engineers before sacrificing their careers and fighting for what they believed in. You're right that they are true inspirations to others, but you seem to imply that's a good thing. Gangsters are obviously also a true inspiration to others (hence glamorizati…
> I suspect that what you really mean is Guevara fought for what you think is just. But that's a weaker statement. You might have mistaken me as a supporter of communism. I don't support communism. Osama Bin Laden exploited the religion for his personal gain. His goal is to become the caliph which is roughly equivalent to being the single military leader for entier Islam as said in the quoran. He did not bother about…
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you respect someone for sacrificing and fighting for what they think is just? Osama Bin Laden wasn't too different either. Many Islamic terrorists were engineers before sacrificing their careers and fighting for what they believed in. You're right that they are true inspirations to others, but you seem to imply that's a good thing. Gangsters are obviously also a true inspiration to others (hence glamorizati…
> I suspect that what you really mean is Guevara fought for what you think is just. But that's a weaker statement. You might have mistaken me as a supporter of communism. I don't support communism. Osama Bin Laden exploited the religion for his personal gain. His goal is to become the caliph which is roughly equivalent to being the single military leader for entier Islam as said in the quoran. He did not bother about…
That's are pretty complicated boundary between good and bad you've defined there. Political ideology is OK but not religious ideology? Being a 2nd in command is OK but not a national leader?