2006-10-25 05:18:37 · 24 answers · asked by sotu 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Depends what "I am" refers to.
"I am alive" is real (although that's another question).
"I am right" is relative.
"I am english" is imagined because the term 'england' is one thought up by mankind and is therefore 'imagined'.
2006-10-25 05:34:13 · answer #1 · answered by andrew w 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Assuming on is not joking it could actually be both. However, with that assumption in mind when we say "I am" it is something we BELIEVE we are. For example, if you are a male and you say "I am a male" that would be real (I am a believer in absolute truth and the real world being the real world). If you were to say, "I am a dolphin" and still under the assumption you'd be dilluted and therefore it would be imaginary. To truly find out which is which is very hard because you would have to get outside yourself and possibly outside this reality in order to make objective conclusion of what you are.
2006-10-25 06:29:08 · answer #2 · answered by X M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagined
2006-10-25 05:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question. The answer depends upon how complete an answer you are looking for?
From the perspective of absolutes, saying that one is anything whose origin was initiated from within the physical plane of existence is un-Real, and delusional. To say one is a scientist, for example, is not precisely correct because one is a Soul, and what one does on the physical plane is play the role of a "scientist", philosopher, race driver, prostitute, criminal, etc.
That one is a Soul, is an absolute Reality. That one "thinks" of oneself as a scientist is a delusional picturing of how one "thinks" of oneself.... most often due to ignorance of who and what one is in actuality. And since this ignorance extends [in the West] to the MIND realm as well, people are capable of becoming emotionally attached to what they "think", and this lends a delusional reality to what they think in the form of thoughts sent to their brains by their MINDs... for the purpose of supporting the person's belief.
Peace
2006-10-25 06:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by docjp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends how you mean. If you say that you are a person then it's real. If you say that you are an onion then I would say that it would be imagined.
2006-10-25 05:21:11 · answer #5 · answered by Jo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could be both or either or neither, depending on whether or not you really are what you said, and whether you imagined it yourself or you're just repeating what someone told you to say, or you're joking or some other such thing.
2006-10-25 05:22:04 · answer #6 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real, because the " I " dwells in that something in a big way at the time of such assertion !
"You become what you think" ... etc are time tested sayings .
2006-10-25 05:27:47 · answer #7 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say you were refering to something real if you said 'my face hurts, I AM bleeding from my ears' after I've punched you.
2006-10-25 05:27:19 · answer #8 · answered by bavwill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the person your saying it to...
Finite and infinite games. By James P. Carse.
2006-10-25 05:25:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That question isn't very clear.
If you say "I am tired' that is probably real.
If you say "I am the smartest person in the world" that's imagined.
2006-10-25 05:26:35 · answer #10 · answered by ezgoin92 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋