To: K-list
Recieved: 2000/06/12 03:59
Subject: Re: [K-list] stifled
From: David Bozzi
On 2000/06/12 03:59, David Bozzi posted thus to the K-list:
DodopATnospamaol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/10/2000 5:13:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> david.bozziATnospamsnet.net writes: Do we need the neediness?
>
> >> Yes, I think we do.
Maybe until we are ready to throw it out ...
I used to believe a monster lived under my bed.
> This is the thing that draws us to another individual
Yes, on a selfish level. This is ok. But growth does not end with the personal.
There is a deeper understanding and experience that reveals we are everyone.
> to create that intense pair bonding that can transform your life and (if you're
> lucky) last a lifetime.
Depends what your time frame is.
For some, what you refer to as a 'lifetime' is but the blink of an I.
> It's also how we make new people. Without the need,
> you wouldn't make the effort.
Have you struggled to find oxygen today? : )
If I were to convince you there was none, perhaps you might suffocate...
(only in a dream)
> You'd relate to everyone about the same way as
> you relate to the people at work--in kind of a friendly, beneficient
> way--without any intensity.
I disagree. You need to understand that this is your understanding and does not
apply
to those who are not limited by it.
> By the way, that neediness and longing is built into the species--it comes
> with the territory and the hormones.
Is fear good enough for you?
Neediness is fear.
But we grow. We heal. Fear can be 'transformed'.
> hormones make you
> lonely, horny, angry at your parents, feeling misunderstood, etc. Eventually
> you end up looking for a mate.
But then it gets discovered that this can't fill the infinite hole either and
then...
> I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. If it didn't work, we
> wouldn't have 6 billion people on the planet. Maybe it works a little too
> well! : D
The human species is indeed in need of either enlightenment or a predator.
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