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| Topic: Are we ourselves? If not, then who are we? | |
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Are we the company we keep, little bits and pieces of those around us, those we knew, movies and shows, songs we've heard, and places we've been? Always evolving, changing with the times? Or are we so uniquely individual we are static, never changing who we are for the sake of our own uniqueness? I always wondered about this when I hear people say the line, "Be Yourself." But who are we, really?
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It's been said we are, or become the 5 people we are around the most...
that would mean I am my sons and my employer's 
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Edited by
causality
on
Mon 11/30/09 11:12 PM
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If one doesn't know who one is, the first thing to do is meditate upon oneself until identity is completely known. Personally, I had no freaking clue who I was at all until I was thirty.
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Yes, I think along those same lines. I have known people who protest and say "I've always been this way." Or "That's the way I was brought up." And then I think, "Oh really??" You have a brain and are capable of learning and adapting, right? Hence, I don't buy these silly little cliches they use. We are the company we keep. But there are some people I've met over the years that somehow seem to defy this assumption. Hence I am back to square one, trying to figure this concept out.
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I really do believe we are mostly given at birth an identity, from our astrological sign, the time, date and place we were born, that is pretty much us, but we are sponges and tend to listen and adapt and strive to be like others, who we would like to emulate, does this make any freakin' sense. That explains how you can have 4 siblings both from the same parents and be so very different.
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I'm a figment of my own imagination.
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We are a product of nature and nurture. think of the grape. nature makes it a grape , but then environment and time and manipulation can turn it into jelly , or wine....
thats us,, some turn out jelly and some turn out wine, but we all just started out grapes...lol |
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We are a product of nature and nurture. think of the grape. nature makes it a grape , but then environment and time and manipulation can turn it into jelly , or wine.... thats us,, some turn out jelly and some turn out wine, but we all just started out grapes...lol I like that answer, very Confucius-like. So simple, yet so wise. |
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We are a product of nature and nurture. think of the grape. nature makes it a grape , but then environment and time and manipulation can turn it into jelly , or wine.... thats us,, some turn out jelly and some turn out wine, but we all just started out grapes...lol I like that answer, very Confucius-like. So simple, yet so wise. thanks, Im addicted to analogies but they dont have a rehab for it yet,,lol |
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Are we ourselves? If not, then who are we? we are devo |
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You're one of the only people on this site I'd take the time to respond to.
It's impossible to figure out, I believe. Somebody told me you can't imagine life and live it at the same time. So, as was stated in a Korean movie, "They say people shrivel up because of their imagination. So... imagine nothing... and you'll become brave as hell." |
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Are we the company we keep, little bits and pieces of those around us, those we knew, movies and shows, songs we've heard, and places we've been? Always evolving, changing with the times? Or are we so uniquely individual we are static, never changing who we are for the sake of our own uniqueness? I always wondered about this when I hear people say the line, "Be Yourself." But who are we, really? Seriously, I agree with you, we are made up of our experiences and relationships- or lack of them; I'm nothing like I was even 2 years ago. I'm curious to see the person I'll be years from now. Anyone who says they haven't changed is either lying or stagnant. |
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