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Someone said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You.” But Jesus answered the one who was telling Him and said, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, “Behold My mother and My brothers!"Īnother disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.” "While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him. Ni is a hodgepodge, paradoxical, and urges a new vision or adopting new standards for what community even means. Ni is mobile and future oriented rather than immediate. They reflect the community in an immediate sense. "Progress" is whatever champions a sense of timelessness, the past, the familiar. Someone who reflects their culture, family, locale, etc. Si's concept of community is based on the user's more particular concept of standards and form. I also find some ideas of ascension rather close to religion and that is another topic in itself. Before you set your sights on the lights beyond ours, perhaps a little love for those that are presently here, or else run the risk of self-indulgence rather than actualisation. I'm talking of those who preach of their grandness and the greatness that their ascension will bring, but who are as empty as those promises, like the barely glimmering core of a dying sun.įrankly I was being, perhaps, a bit more literal than yourself, for me the issues of humanity run right through the core of us and they are both material and immaterial. My definition of what an individual defines as 'ascension' is different to yours. I understand this better than you might give me credit for. But, there are a lot of false prophets and sooth-sayers who peddle easy answers in pursuit of this goal but who, in reality, are stunting peoples growth towards this. Self-actualisation is a great goal and one which does help an individual and others around them. But too many people idealise ascension incorrectly as a form of achievement akin to becoming a god. I wasn't challenging the aimless pursuit of materialism vs self-actualisation.

I'm not sure what this has to do with what I or you said.