Labels?

[kentauros]

55. I think labels are necessary.

Otherwise, people remain complex, possibly too complex to contemplate. A label narrows the focus to a level everyone can grapple.

For example, while I consider myself a New Ager, that doesn't truly describe what I believe. At the same time, I sometimes call myself a Spiritualist. Yet, that's not right in the true definition of it, as I define it more with the whole of New Age thought.

And so, I cherry-pick all the time. We all do that, in every aspect of our life, some of us just more than others in one area.

So, in many ways, labels are more about how you want people to perceive you than in how you perceive yourself as a whole.