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What are you?

 
 
twyvel
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 09:17 am
What are you?

The assumption in the question is that I am the answer, that I am something tangible, something sensed, something thought of, something that can be grasped.

But if I am always the observer and never the observed, always the perceiver and never the perceived then that which is 'me' , the observer, is never observed or perceived, for it is always doing the observing and perceiving, so I cannot get to what I am through a subject---object relation. I cannot be referred to.

I am a non-observable and therefore beyond all 'observables' yet indistinguishable from them.

So there's no 'observable " I " observing, there's just observing.


I am pure awareness, pure observation, untainted by imagination, and as such I am not the answer to any question.
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oldandknew
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 09:38 am
Anything from Author to Writer and anything or anyone I dream up in between times. I am also a Movie Maker.
So I am what I am, what ever that is, at any given time. Instantly changable dependant on situation and mood.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 09:41 am
I is what I is. Wink c.i.
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roger
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 09:46 am
Twyvel, thou art the ultimate soliphist.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 09:48 am
P. the Sailorman:

"I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam."
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 09:48 am
Carl Sagan told me I am star stuff.

I don't know that for sure, but it seems reasonable.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 10:06 am
Yeah, Frank, you seem to be way out in the stratosphere someplace. Wink c.i.
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 10:12 am
cicerone imposter wrote:
Yeah, Frank, you seem to be way out in the stratosphere someplace. Wink c.i.



DOH!!!!
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quinn1
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 10:20 am
Setanta------I am Henry the Eigth I yam

Smile

ci...its all over the place here already silly.
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 06:26 pm
Hi Twyvel,

twyvel wrote:
The assumption in the question is that I am the answer, that I am something tangible, something sensed, something thought of, something that can be grasped.


I don't believe this assumption is inherent in the question. Your answers need not be restricted to the tangible, or even the probable.

Observing thought isn't like observing a reflection in a mirror. Awareness isn't limited by causality, and as such, you can be both observer and observed. Right?

Best Regards,
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kuvasz
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 11:35 pm
Setanta wrote:
P. the Sailorman:

"I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam."


so, you are a vegetable?
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NNY
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 11:45 pm
I am a mildly psychotic, neurotic, manic depressant, existential nihilist. I am also the new messiah. Charity is not necessary, but they will be appreciated.

I am an Endless.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Thu 24 Jul, 2003 11:57 pm
NNY, I have bad news for you. You want it now or later? c.i.
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NNY
 
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Reply Fri 25 Jul, 2003 12:03 am
Is it that I don't believe in myself? Or that the new pants I got don't match any of my shoes? Lasso the billy and tie up the kangaroo.
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NNY
 
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Reply Fri 25 Jul, 2003 12:07 am
He does not exist; and thus he is all that matters. Do you understand?
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 25 Jul, 2003 12:08 am
How did you know? Yeah, get another pair of shoes to match your pants. Wink c.i.
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CodeBorg
 
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Reply Fri 25 Jul, 2003 12:18 am
*What* am I?

I am you.
We are God.
We are all there is.



(PS -- Do I make myself clear?)
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fresco
 
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Reply Fri 25 Jul, 2003 12:39 am
What does "what" mean ?

What does "are" mean ?

What does "you" mean ?

Wittgenstein would have loved this ! Rolling Eyes
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Wy
 
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Reply Fri 25 Jul, 2003 12:46 am
I am you are he is we are all together...
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Robwill
 
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Reply Fri 25 Jul, 2003 12:57 am
I am alive.

Why do I need to be anything else?
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