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are we really? if we were to rid ourselves of all that which we have read, heard, experienced, created and rememberd etc. who would we be?
I mean can you tell the difference when you are playing a role and being yourself?
and when one is himself, what does that mean anyway?
Can you tell the difference between what you know and what you have read?
We seem to be a bundle of things stacked on top of each other, mostly coincedently.
Think if you were born in korea, you would be completely different, exept for those things which make you human same biological structure, your brain, emotions etc.
One seems to be like an empty egg shelf, which can be filled up anyway. There seems to be no concrete you or no real essence, no you. Only something changing, something put together by where ever you are in time, culture, upbringing etc.
???

Sorry for my bad english, it is not my mother tounge.

2007-06-03 12:51:01 · 7 answers · asked by Lorenzo de' Medici 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

Identity seems to come out of the need for security, it is a kind of illusion to think that ones role is really who one is.

2007-06-03 12:52:52 · update #1

7 answers

WOW... thats deep

2007-06-03 12:58:28 · answer #1 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 0 0

Paul says to think on whatever is good, true and beautiful..and Architecture is the queen of the arts. We have no choice in the matter, none at all. Either our buildings will enrich us or they will burden our souls. This is touched on in Plato's Republic. Religion is a response of people who are physical and spiritual. So a beautiful building that leaks is no good, And a sturdy but ugly building is even worse. For the poor and the sick and the afflicted I think a beautiful sumptuous ennobling Church (even expensive) is a work of charity. And I think Mexico bears me out. Those who want to scrimp on houses of worship seem no different than Judas : This perfume could have been sold for a high price, and the money could have been given to the poor." The poor will soon need more money and we should help as we can, but they really need hope and that's what a magnificent Cathedral is, hope of a better world and God's sustaining us in this world.

2016-04-01 00:33:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

We are all playing a role in this illusion we call reality. This is all our creation and we are all the creation of our creator. We are all connected to the zero point field, the point of first consciousness, (God). So though it may seem we are different we are not, we only have different experiences which all goes back to to divine matrix, quantum field or as some call it,God.We can not tell the difference between what we read or see or even think about because the mind sees only the energy we give it because it is our creation of the ILLUSION

2007-06-03 13:15:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

We have "instincts" which are genetic. No one taught you to suckle on your mothers breast, you just knew how to do it. No one taught you to crawl or to stand and walk. When the command came from your genes you obeyed it. Why did you ask this question? Isn't it because you wonder? Wonder is always with us as to the meaning of our lives. It seems an instinct.

Until it is "beaten out of us" by society we imitate our elders I am always amazed at how easily children learn the language of their parents; its a genetic instinct. We learn what our culture teaches us; we never stop learning and that must be an instinct, to learn. No one taught you to seek a sex partner; when the command came from your genes you just did it.

And no one actually taught young fathers and mothers how to raise their progeny they just do it for good or ill. It is pretty obvious they mostly do a good job because most of the people of the world are happy and get along well; only a few "bad apples" spoil the barrel of apples. The will to live well is an instinct. Most of our instincts we just take for granted and they are granted by our genes.

2007-06-04 00:01:51 · answer #4 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0 0

I don't think our true nature is really empty.

Naturally things happen in your life to shape you, but everyone is different right from birth, even brothers belonging to the same parents, born into the same circumstances, even before they experience life differently from others.

Maybe some of that is inherited? Like when people notice a baby has his or her dad's temper even before they can talk!

2007-06-03 13:13:28 · answer #5 · answered by Allegra 3 · 0 0

*obligatory sarcastic brevity*...i think if you consider genetics and the deep complexity of just one human life, then to say that ones true nature is empty is a bit of a fallacy...

2007-06-03 12:59:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

my nature is empty until Iget some ice cream

2007-06-03 12:54:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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