We humans think, look, and feel different as we get older, we are different. The matter that makes up a human body is not the same matter as ten years ago. So what stays the same about us? what is my"self"? Is there such a thing as a soul, an unchanging part of us that is not made of cell?
Thank you for your answers.
2006-11-04 08:24:20 · 19 answers · asked by guilty 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I'v thought about this before. What I was is still a huge part of what I am today. Im the same but, not the same.
Sidenote:
Thats why reincarnation is not for me.
Id be a totally different person without the memories of my past.
2006-11-04 08:28:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Love it. My self is what I developed over the first years of growing up, the lessons taught and lessons learned. I am who I am suppose to be, the gifts I have now I had then, the only change is the power to know when to use the gifts and power.
My soul is unchanged, my heart has softened, my eyes have weakened however they see more now than they ever did in my 20's.
The best of me is showing more and more as time goes by, the love I had is different as it is more selective and easier to see.
My best is all I have to give and my worst is something I put behind me as the world is too great a thing to dampen with negative thoughts and words.
Tricked once too many times but not sorry for the offers of help and wisdom.
Wisdom is earned by living and watching.
Thanks for the question. Hope this helps.
2006-11-04 16:41:18 · answer #2 · answered by sideways 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How can you ever be the same person that you were? For Humans to be humans we have to evolve.From an Identity point of view we remain the same but from a philosophical and biological sense we constantly change. That change is what makes us human.As to what is "yourself": that is your identity, the basic building block which defines rather than explains who you are.As to our souls changing the question arises "what is the soul".The answer is :the soul is the part of us that is innocent and devoid of all sins. Therefore in my view the soul never changes what does change is our mindset and the outer layer of the soul which is made up of our experiences mostly bad because all our good deeds and good thoughts go to enhancing our soul.
2006-11-04 16:51:24 · answer #3 · answered by ace 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We are not and cannot be the same as we were years ago. Our experiences and physiological changes transform us. The only thing which connects us to the past are memory traces seared into our neural pathways. Is the a soul? I have no idea. The answer may be more complex than either scientists or theologeons imagine.
2006-11-04 18:31:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a part of me that does not change. It is hard headed, hates inequality and will not take part in cliques. It has caused me a lot of hurt but I have never been able to change it.
But with age I am more forgiving of myself and others. I change how I see and understand some things, but the "CORE" of who I am does not waver. It isn't an organic thing.
ADDITIONAL: Clarification to evermor (below).
Thank you for the observation you sent to me.
The way I perceive things may modify, but the core that I have always seen as "ME" has not changed. It is underneath and before my perceptions and not affected by outside influences. I have tried to change it. Others have tried to change this part of me. I am 53. It is the same today as it was when I became aware of it around age 4. I have seen this 'core' in others. They can change religions, cultures, body structure, career, physical attributes and all aspects of who they are, but the pillar of the thing that sits in the center of them, and where all things emanate from, remains solid and unscratched.
So I agree that the nature of life is change, but the nature of soul, or awareness if you like, is unchanging.
2006-11-04 17:28:05 · answer #5 · answered by Batty 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Human's evolve as do all cellular structures for the most part. It is the cycle of life forms, with the cellular meaning scientifically.However you are proposing a highly controversary subject. That you may wish to research in the library "neurological studies/Neuro-matter". Then compound that with the findings of the highly educated Christian,Hindu,Buddhist, Judaic, etc., scientists who are geniuses in science and have invented and created many good things for mankind in good faith, and express their scientific findings with fact and document to the question of the soul,which they claim is a living matter of pure energy, as is spirit, but cellular structure is unknown. Back in the 60's and 70's during the cold war the Russians had scientists (Jewish, like the nazis did as well for the same studies) doing experiments with live people and as they died they had infrared cameras to show the soul or spirit on film. Their findings were declared real. However that may seem they are real studies and documented. All governments have an interest in higher power as to defeat the governments that would try and take over theirs. There are many proven situations in the library in the metaphysical area, and here you can put research to work to find the answer you seek. I feel that when you are able to think to yourself a thought (idea for creation) and carry out your thought in action that is not ever physical except for the body is carry out your untouchable ideas. No one reads your mind but you, so that must be your own soul, whether it is a good, bad, or indifferent thought it is not created by cellular structure, unless you think of our brains as a transmitter, and that is very possible therefore technically the body is a physical tranmitter for our souls to conduct.
2006-11-04 16:39:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
This question is at the forefront of human evolvement. G.I. Gurdjieff once told P.D. Ouspensky (when Ouspensky used the word "I") that he would have to define which "I" before he could answer his question. Gurdjieff said, "I, there are thousands of them, they appear (individually) every second and are replaced by the next "I." He meant that we who are not grounded have no chance to evolve.
We are struck in our matter, which as this question points out is also changing, but changing towards decay. So, are you (we) the same person. The answer is no. you have evolved, awakened to a new realization and are different then who you were. Your name may be the same but since the past does not exist, you can not exist in the past. The you, you were, is not the same. It is present. Welcome the new you!
2006-11-04 16:53:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
my answer would be no. nothing in this universe stays the same for more than a proverbial heartbeat. cells are constantly splitting, the light is constantly changing, whether its color or brightness or direction. your thoughts are always changing etc etc etc.
at least from a physical perspective, we have a totally new body roughly every 7 years. even minute changes like loss of a hair or the growth of a hair changes us.
2006-11-04 17:31:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The soul iz the correct answer and yes alone it iz untouchable by human hands, invisable to the human eye but at the same time it iz all of u. What may touch the soul exclusivly iz human emotion. Emotion has the ability 2 enrich, wound or break the soul.
...however the soul never dies no matter how many injuries it may encounter. 1s soul lives 4ever.
2006-11-04 16:37:35 · answer #9 · answered by Di 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
WHen we die, what happens? the YOU part leaves the body. The self, the soul, the thing that never dies.The life.The body, which grew and got used up, dies. Then you are born into the uknown spirtit relm, where there is no form.Eventually, your destiny pulls you back to the earth to be reborn.It's a cycle.Now, of course it's not so simple, but thats the main idea. NO one told me this, I figured it out myself.
2006-11-04 19:52:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋