Do you ever have concepts 'fade out'? The concept of 'soul' used to be one I used a lot, and now it's kinda dissolved - it's just not an object that shows up a lot in my processing. Similarly, 'love' has faded out for me, replaced by something like 'looking' or 'self-dissolution'
Like them giving it a name suddenly made the thing you felt, 'real'? Like it became something you could hold onto and handle, like it made your thinking clearer? Words are really, really powerful in this way, and can shape the fundamental way our mind reasons about things.
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I mean that 'soul' felt like it corresponded to Definitely A Thing, almost like an object, in a similar way I think the word 'chair' corresponds to the thing I'm sitting in. Getting rid of soul as a function meant that it stopped feeling useful for the reasoning I was tryin to do
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Like, when I was religious I believed in Definitely Real Theological Terms - they were words that created a form that I used to handle things, to answer questions, to create patterns. After I lost my faith, stuff like the Hypostatic Union suddenly felt empty, like ghosts.
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