Hi All;) .. What makes "you" who you are?;)?

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Your views, and opinions?? :D
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Thanks, for answering in advance!;)

Answer 1

Oftentimes, or more times than not, we are not who and what we say we are. We have our likes and dislikes and even a few biases but we tend to idealize ourselves when describing ourselves to others. In a way, we are the sum total of our experiences, physical, emotional and psychological experiences, but more often than not we are what we are perceived to be by others.

Here's an example, I see myself as a quiet person (and my neighbors will attest to that), some think I am humble; I consider myself the height of conceit and egoism... I see myself SO important that I can afford to be magnanimous enough to ignore the ill-opinions and criticisms of others around me because they are so insignificant to me and what I do for them is out of pity for a lesser life form... I am seen as someone who doesn't dress well but that's because I am not presumptuous enough to believe that what I wear will make me a better person. I am seen as a helpless person but little do they know that I allow them to believe what they want, and that is what makes me a dangerous person. They think that I am heartless because I do not show emotions but they fail to understand that I choose not to let them know that they've annoyed me or hurt my feelings... who or what is the "real" me? To THEM I am what they see... is it really? After all, they judge me in accordance with their own experiences which surely differ from my own...

Most often two or even three people can agree on what best describes another person, sometimes complimentary, sometimes not. That description is what they AGREE and UNDERSTAND as being the person they describe based on common experiences. I, however, may have a totally different understanding of the same person because I know that person has suffered or is in some turmoil or is trying but is unable to cry out... who really knows?

What makes me the person I am... to whom, to myself or others that see me and think they "know" me? My feelings at a given time changes. What people feel about me may change by one act of kindness or cruelty or a single lapse in character on my part... who really knows?

Answer 2

May I say that your question pertains to a persons IDENTITY. This is what I try to help people with in their relationship to God.

My Catholic faith (with influence from my dad) made me the philosopher I am today. I defend the faith when it comes under attack by reasoning and trying to explain the complex issues involved. It becomes a gigantic interconnecting puzzle of issues.

Take for example the issue of the HOLY TRINITY. It is a doctrine of the Christian faith many people cannot accept. So, over the years I have tried to find ways of explaining this to people by describing how we are created in God's image. I do this by describing WHAT we are.

The HOLY TRINITY IS: A term used since A.D. 200 to denote the central doctrine of the Christian religion. God, who is one and unique in his infinite substance or nature, is three really distinct persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The one and only God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yet God the Father is not God the Son, but generates the Son eternally, as the Son is eternally begotten. The Holy Spirit is neither the Father nor the Son, but a distinct person having his divine nature from the Father and Son by eternal procession. The three divine persons are co-equal, co-eternal, and consubstantial and deserve co-equal glory and adoration.

We need to know how we are created in God's image to grasp the concept of the Holy Trinity and I think your question is a good one.

To understand this better, chart it out or use a diagram of two triangles of equal proportions like the Star of David. This allows an easier understanding of the relationship between the Essence and Existence of a thing. The words following should be distinguished in the following categories: Physical, Mental, and Spiritual. These three words encompass everything in the Universe and make up the CREATIVE PROCESS to help describe the Creator, creatures, and creation.

God is spirit. He cannot be seen. If you were to examine all the creatures, the CREATOR has made a pattern emerges: angels and demons are intellectual creatures without a body; plants and animals do not have an intellect but a body and mortal soul. IT IS ONLY LIVING, HUMAN, BEINGS, that have a MIND, BODY, and SOUL. Only human beings have all three. Now, living, human, being is the existence of man. Those words describe the essence of man's mind, body, and soul. The Body is living, the Mind makes us human and distinguishing us from animals, and our Soul makes us the being that we become (good or evil).

Now, even Muslims will agree Allah is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnipresent (ever present). These words describe the existence of God. So, what is the essence of God? I will hold off answering this question till the end.

Now, if you think about the existence of a person they have a triple existence: physical (body), mental (mind), and spiritual (eternal soul). In fact, whenever we create something it has all three of these parts. When we cook we have a recipe (in our mind), we gather all the raw ingredients, and we cook (don't burn it, ha ha) what it is we are making. Cooking has the physical, mental, and spiritual parts. Same with engineering or technology it has three parts: the blueprints (to convey an idea), the raw materials (physical), and the workmanship (spiritual). If something goes wrong investigators will look for a design flaw, material flaw, or faulty workmanship. THIS DEMONSTRATES CREATION HAS THREE PARTS LIKE THE CREATOR.

Now, in the Bible it says Jesus is the visible likeness of the invisible God. (Colossians 1:15) The ESSENCE OF GOD IS: Father (mental), Son (physical), Holy Ghost (spiritual). ONE TRUE GOD IN THREE JUST LIKE A PERSON. THREE PARTS ONE PERSON. When you are sick you send for a doctor; when you are mentally troubled, a psychiatrist; when spiritually seeking you seek out a holy person.

Answer 3

My choices-Some good some not so good. Each choice brought about and will continue to bring about different experiences -again some good and some not so good.
My choices affect every aspect of my life - Like the choice to answer this question-
My choices lead me beyond the present place I was and that place leads me to another choice and each monent in my life makes me who I am.

Answer 4

All the experiences in my life so far, good and bad, have helped make me who I am. I embrace every one of those experiences, because through each one I learnt something about myself. The love of my family and friends, and the joy of motherhood help complete the picture.

Answer 5

Nathan! What replaced into that for? it is probably some little female you're chatting with! do not you've any decency? besides, my theory of happiness comes from noticing the version. you know...you may be the princess of england, with ponies and connoisseur nutrients and great vacation trips and relaxing familiar....and it may well be basically an analogous on your internet and tv and IM chats.....and it truly is basically an analogous to those little ones who're kicking a tin can downtown in Rio de Genero attempting to score a objective on their freinds.....they're all used to what's round them. they have grown into it. yet in case you combine up any of those circumstances, you're going to word a huge difference contained in the way of existence. might want to that little pampered royalty deal with ingesting bread and water for lunch familiar out contained in the nice and cozy solar with out airconditioning? might want to YOU? properly, regardless, that little youngster who's used to no longer something continually is going to have the time of his existence as both a suburban youngster or a celeb. yet once he receives used to it.....properly, it basically would not decrease it anymore. Happiness is about criteria. the foremost to those is the very undeniable reality that you're making them for your self. see you later as you're confident of the happiness round you, you've that happiness interior you. yet you may basically as truly refuse to make certain it....even if it truly is having a foul day....or basically being a brat....although. So do your proper to make your self word the little issues that slip with the help of you familiar. although if meaning taking a number of them remote from your self on objective to lead them to seem that a lot brighter on your existence.... hiya, that's a initiate....

Answer 6

My memories, and my feelings. I think these two things sum up my perceptions of me so far: my memories represent what I have apprehended of the things that have happened both inside and outside of me, and my feelings describe my "internal weather" with respect to everything that I go through.
If I lost either of them, I wouldn't be me anymore.

Answer 7

My experiences make me who I am. And to quote Oscar Wilde:
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Answer 8

I am the person l am today,from all the hard lessons of life l have had to learn,so lessons more than once unfortunately.

Answer 9

my never ever changing faith of my believe in our Heavenly Father, and Mother Earth that i'm one of their son.
the one who know the significance of life.

Answer 10

I'm a thing that is aware that it is, has had some life-experiences, and suffers.