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16_09_21

If you have too much (needs rework)



1. If you have too much, you have no thing to lose 

2. i.e there is nothing you can lose (since you have too much)

3. you can no longer really reject anything in your possession

4. things become attached to you

5. you become a thing-being, an object-subject

6. you lose the capacity of removal

7. and gaining has lost its sense

8. there is no longer a goal in winning

9. or a need for this goal

10. and minor, fun risks have become actually dangerous: you can either die, which is losing too much, or not lose at all.

11. Dying means losing too much in the same way as losing too much means dying.

12. Having too much is like being on a cliff: losing means falling, hence having too much also means losing too much automatically, and implies dying. A poor person cherishes their possessions but does not die from losing them. There is a unit of measure for possessiveness which acts like mass acts with gravity.

13. Like gravity, having too much transforms you into a black hole, possession being attracted to possession, like mass and gravity.

14. The possession unit contains a psychological dynamic of joy:

  

15. If you have too much, you forget the struggles and the sense of life.

16. By losing incentive, you lose desire.

17. By losing desire, you lose identity.

18. You lose the capacity to really lose but gain all meaningful losses: the Big Loss(es).

19. Paradoxically, by gaining too much, you also reach something really meaningful.


The above came as a flash. It's really an cryptic allegory, it doesn't correspond to anything real. If this was taken as a description of what commonly means to own too many of something, one would logically say this never happens, that owning some category of things in large amount do not reach such a terrible state. So what does? I am of the opinion than if we can think it, it must exist.


Perhaps it's the concept of possession that should be replaced with something else, for instance being immortal:
 - if you are immortal, you have no thing to lose...etc
down to:
 - Dying means being immortal in the same was as being immortal means dying.
And the unit of measure would be our capacity to survive.
This works quite well.

What about: living fully every second of the day:
 - if you live fully every second of the day, you have no thing to lose...etc
This works well in a way, a more positive way than the dying one.

What else?

Perhaps it's a play on the words "too much". What does "too much" mean in the concept of ownership? "Too much" means breaking the rules. If I break the rules of ownership, it means I cannot own anymore, I no longer own, I don't have the capacity OR THE RIGHT to own. 

What else?


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