does it still count as a note-to-self if you don& #39;t write it in 2nd person?

seems to me it doesn& #39;t count

but anyway, this turned into a thread exploring some new thoughts I& #39;ve been having about partswork, so keep reading for that https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŸ„°" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŸ§”" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1316431198407651328">https://twitter.com/nickcamma...
I& #39;m thinking I want to do more writing to myself, and also feeling like it would be fun to have a fractional second person pronoun for that.

y& #39;all :: you : you : ___

(here& #39;s a ridiculous idea: repurpose "thou" for that) https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1313009429403627523">https://twitter.com/Malcolm_O...
I& #39;ve been reaching whole new levels of self-integration recently and part of me is raising the concern that somehow having fractional pronouns would cause fragmentation.

I appreciate thou, part, for raising that concern https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😛" title="Face with tongue" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tongue"> https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/876984251283103748">https://twitter.com/Malcolm_O...
And... I find myself noting that the same argument could be applied to claim that people would be more united if we got rid of "I/me/mine", and that& #39;s literally one of Ayn Rand& #39;s communist dystopias (Anthem—only novel of hers I& #39;ve read, and it& #39;s quite good)
Anyway, I seem to also think having fractional pronouns may be less problematic than having *names* for given parts. Internal parts are slipperier than individual people, whose neurons don& #39;t tend to migrate between craniums.

(Not saying naming parts is bad, to be clear!)
The self-integration work I& #39;ve been doing lately hasn& #39;t involved reifying any particular parts in any ongoing way. I simply recognize that each of my thoughts represents the output/process of some subsystem. These systems evolve, and also may overlap. Can& #39;t neatly carve them up.
I refer to the parts contextually, eg "Ahh, there& #39;s a part of me that is fending off blame here. It& #39;s fighting. Hello fighty <3 Yeah, you& #39;re trying to insist that I& #39;m completely powerless and blameless, because you really don& #39;t want me to feel blamed."

No ongoing "fighty" part.
In this case, the next day I ended up going a lot deeper in dialogued with this part.

Turned out it cares a lot about me not being blamed, & sometimes blames other people, but doesn& #39;t particularly *want* to. Just wants to not be blamed—okay! Blame nobody. https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1316460346106929153">https://twitter.com/Malcolm_O...
(The perspective from which it& #39;s actually coherent to blame nobody is a whole treatise in itself, but as far as I can tell, blame as a framework for explaining behavior is outdated in the same way geocentrism is outdated. Study Systems Thinking for initial sketches at helio.)
Another example: "the part of you that wants space right now"

Later, that "part" might want something else, and/or another "part" may want space.

These arise and pass. We relate with what is here to be related with.
Sometimes I feel a sense of unity around what I& #39;m thinking. It feels like the whole picture. Often it& #39;s not tho!

In fact, invariably no perspective is ever the whole picture, even if I have a unified sense of myself in a given moment.

Others still see things I don& #39;t.
In particular, I& #39;ll also note that anger & frustration, being very left-hemisphere lateralized, tend to block out the presence of other perspectives, including whatever fears or shames or panics they& #39;re guarding.

Can welcome them and also ask "what else is present?"
Anyway! Rather than thinking about myself as "having" parts, ie "whatever thoughts of mine I don& #39;t identify with" (aka egodystonic) I& #39;m trying to not identify with any thoughts in particular, and to identify myself with the process that observes and organizes these thoughts.
The "observe" part may sound like I& #39;m talking about some nonconceptual awareness, and I think that& #39;s sorta true inasmuch as I& #39;m probably referring to something right-hemisphere lateralized.

But it& #39;s also, I think, what IFS calls Self. Not denying self.

my "selfing function"
This seems to me to be very compatible with the dharma as I understand it, although many people approach the dharma in ways that may not be compatible with this. https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1303713863989448713">https://twitter.com/Malcolm_O...
In particular, "no-self", ie anatta, might actually just *be* the thing I& #39;m referring to when I say I don& #39;t reify or identify with any parts of me!

Would love to hear thoughts on this from @xuenay, @mattgoldenberg, @meditationstuff, @Meaningness

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Realizing that this thread of @mattgoldenberg& #39;s from the week before, is very relevant/resonant.

I guess I had read it at the time (and it maybe inspired stuff?) though I& #39;d forgotten about it by the time I wrote this one. https://twitter.com/mattgoldenberg/status/1313175656239452169">https://twitter.com/mattgolde...
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