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"Who the fuck are you?" -- The Who

Back in the '70s people were asking or tripping out about the question, "Who are you?"

Some people would answer the question no better than one word: Christian, Jew, white/black, mom/dad. Is that who you are?

Maybe it's the auxillary verb, "are" that gets in the way because it is present tense, whereas a living person is hopefully evolving/maturing/becoming.

There's a lot of wisdom in the Bible (except for the trite or irrational doctrine of "Saint" Paul) and Jesus-Christ was a radical, revolutionary but I could never call myself a "Christian." And how many "Jews" are atheists -- is that oxymoron? i.e, how can you call yourself a Christian if you don't believe in Christ? There is no Catholic race but then there are semetic and european Jews.

Person = Persona = actor.

I don't know who I am (or who I am becoming) but I imagine myself becoming . . . [secret].

Now pass that joint over here. $40 doses in NZ?! That's what's the matter with this world!
 
when was the last time you (plural) looked at yourself in a mirror for more than a few seconds? a minute? five straight minutes?

try it - what do you see?

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
when was the last time you (plural) looked at yourself in a mirror for more than a few seconds? a minute? five straight minutes?

try it - what do you see?

alasdair
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I tried it and my face turned into a rabbit. What do I do now?

am i a rabbit?
 
hahaha in that case i am a big dog and i am going to hunt you down !!! MUHUHWWWAHHAHAHHAAAHHHAH!!!

oh, and uhm
in one word...i am me
i am human
i am male
i am jewish
i am taoist
i am caucasian
i am one hairy muthafucka

if i stare at myself in the mirror...i...just look like different versions of myself...yes, even when on drugs....i've never morphed into an animal or beast or anything (except now when i chased down Secret Identity %) )
 
my answer that i will pass on to you is this:

i am who i am not.

by the existentialist philosophy: a human's existance preceeds it's essence (the fundamental purpose for life). so it is able to interpret and self-actualize it's life & into society.

i am not just a student. or just a son. or just a hippie. or just a nerd.

i am all of these things, and more.

i am everything.

i am nothing.

i exist.

i am.
 
^ do you also not exist? you can't exist and yet be "nothing"

if nothing exists, then it is not nothing, because it has the property of existing...
 
yeah, i'd say i don't exist as well.

and i guess that i "am not" also.

but in the sake of being frightfully closed-minded and descriptive...

i am a nowhere man.
 
I am Robert D **** IV

A walking, talking, bundle of ideas and light.
 
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i shall elaborate...

sartre explains that there are three unique states of being.

the first are artifacts (inanimate objects) whose essence preceeds existence. for example, the essential qualities and need for a table come before the construction of said table.

next are natural objects (flora & fauna) whose essence & existence coincide. they are defined by the way they exist in the world.

last are humans, whose existence preceeds essence. humans have self-consciousness and exist before having essential qualities and a place in which to fit. we also have the ability to change and adapt.

at any specific time in our life, there is the person's past, future, and present. the past is who we were. the future is who we could be.

however, the "now" is special, because we aren't necessarily tied to our facticity (the situation we find ourselves in, past choices, and essence). we have the ability to sieze the infinite possibility of the moment. we can do this through reflective consciousness.

humans all have pre-reflective consciousness (using or doing something without thinking about it, habituations) and reflective consciousness (self consciousness).

the artifact & natural object only has pre-reflective consciousness and therefore is a 'being-in-itself'. it is bound by it's past qualities and it's current situation.

the reflective consciousness allows us to transcend our essence and actualize the freedom of the now. a person is a 'being-for-itself'.

sartre defines this freedom as 'we are who are are not'. "Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have." - Jean-Paul Sartre

the person is borne and then comes to define himself by choosing to interpret the world with ultimate responsibility for one's choices.

i am not just a student for that is a label put on my by an institution. i am not defined by my past, i define myself by my potential. and the ever increasing potential that i may gain as time goes on.

i hope that this makes sense to you all. it does in my head. =)
 
alasdairm said:
when was the last time you (plural) looked at yourself in a mirror for more than a few seconds? a minute? five straight minutes?

try it - what do you see?

alasdair
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I see god. Does that make me arrogant?:|
 
alasdairm said:
when was the last time you (plural) looked at yourself in a mirror for more than a few seconds? a minute? five straight minutes?

try it - what do you see?
Click to expand...

I just spent the last few minutes in the bathroom, staring at my reflection in the mirror.

It's indescribable... On one hand, (intellectually) I know that the reflection is actually my face, but on the other hand, (somewhat elusively) there's a strange feeling of disconnection between what I'm seeing and how I experience the world.
 
^^^^thats because your face is backwards

when we look at people we tend to look at their emotional side which is their left face(relative to them) but when you look in the mirror you still tend to look at the left side which is your right and you see a different face which is the intelectual face rather than the emotional face.

so the reflection isnt really you.
 
'I am one instance of the universe perceiving itself'

i liked this alot, quite how i'd like to explain myself.

im a warrior looking for a path with heart
 
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