In other words, since humans learn to be the person they ultimatley become how do we know who we will be and if we will like that person in our present state of being? If you died would you be judged on your potential or your past?
2006-11-17 16:23:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
That is a tough one I guess you would be judged not only by your past but also what you would or could have achieved in life. People change so rapidly that who we are is so hard to define. I myself am not the same person I was just a few years ago. Five years ago I was a young girl about to start college living at home no bills to pay. I am now a working mother of 2. I feel like it happend so fast yet I cant really remember being that girl I was 5 years ago.
2006-11-17 16:39:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is NO future self. The future does NOT exist except in our imaginations. There is ONLY the past and present. We do NOT know who we will be or if our present self would approve of that theoretical future self. The only things we are ever truly judged on is what we did during our lives.
2006-11-18 00:36:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are who you are in the present. You did not say who was going to judge you. People would not know what you would like in the future. Are you talking about God judging you? Once you are dead you have no potential for the future.
2006-11-18 00:38:04 · answer #3 · answered by » mickdotcom « 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This ? really makes me think. We are the sum total of our life experience. We are not our potential, because it has not actualized. Thus, to judge one for his potential, is really judging them for what they could have been, and how they failed to hit the mark. I wouldn't ever want to be judged, but to answer the ? I think you're asking - I'd say -- I'd like to be remembered for the person who made it to life's finishing line, considering all my challenges and triumphs, and leave "what I could have been" to the cosmos, for me to carry on in the next life without all the advertising and hoopla.
2006-11-18 00:37:45 · answer #4 · answered by amuse4you 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You only have the current, there is no future. Your present state of being is the only state you will ever know. Good night, guru.
2006-11-18 00:40:12 · answer #5 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many "probable selves" which we might become. Choose carefully because you will be permitted to follow only one time line in this dimension of existence. But look into the many-worlds hypothesis of quantum mechanics.
2006-11-19 00:33:19 · answer #6 · answered by Seeker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are definately not what will be. We are a work in progress, God will not be finished with us until death. Then and only then, will we be like we were made to be
2006-11-18 10:45:33 · answer #7 · answered by tanya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you would know your future person- observe your parents. But your past one- is YOUR responsibility.
2006-11-18 00:34:51 · answer #8 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ultimately we are the same past, present, and future.
according to the great mystics and profits.
2006-11-18 07:31:31 · answer #9 · answered by missy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋