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What am I?

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AiR

Member
When this question is asked, most people answer it in three different ways. The first person answers - I am the body. I look like the body. I have a name. I have a title. I have a designation. I have an appearance. I am this appearance.

But fortunately, some of us are lucky enough to go beyond this and we realize that we are not the body, but we are the self. We are not simply the body, but we are the body, the mind, the intellect, the ego, and the spirit and the soul. When we start realizing that we are not the body and we are actually the self, the human self, which is the composite collection of all these things put together, then we start praying and building a connection with God, because we realize that we are the power within. This is the stage where we move away from the lower state of being just the body. But we have still not reached the higher state of being the spirit of God itself.

A few are luckier still and move to level three, where we realize we are not the body because the body dies and is consumed and goes back to being a part of the five elements. The mind, the intellect and ego - are subtle parts of the body, which leave the body and therefore, are without an identity. When this inner instrument of the mind, intellect, ego complex realizes the truth that we are the divine spirit, God itself and like the wave merges with the ocean, merges with the creator itself, becoming God as God particles, going back to its source, energy - this is reaching the third level of existence.

Therefore, analyze what you think you are. Are you the body? Are you the self? Or are you the spirit of God that lives within you? What are you?

AiR
 
Deathbydefault

Deathbydefault

Apistevist Asexual Atheist
AiR said:
Therefore, analyze what you think you are. Are you the body? Are you the self? Or are you the spirit of God that lives within you? What are you?
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I am an insignificant gene pool that will live and die in a time frame that isn't even worth notice to the universe.
A body that will cease to be, a consciousness that will become unusable, an utterly meaningless and accidental piece of existence.

I am as I perceive all of you to be.
 
allfoak

allfoak

Alchemist
Sunstone said:
I am who is posting in this thread now. What are you?
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We could take this conversation in circles.
It should be fun. :)

Someone is just a pronoun, could you be more specific?

Since i am a divided self striving to become whole, describing who i am can be very difficult.
One can only describe who they are to the depth of how well they know themselves.
Some people, if asked to list their good qualities hand you a blank stare for an answer.

If i had succeeded in becoming whole at this point in my life, describing myself would be much easier.
I understand myself to be body, soul and spirit, all having separate consciousness, but i barely even know my body consciousness at this stage of my growth, therefore i am unable to give an accurate description of the rest.
I do not know what it is like for the 3 to be one.
It is my goal to understand this about myself.

So while i used a lot of pronouns and other words that do nothing more than confuse the issue, answering the question "Who or What Am I"? is not one of the things i accomplished.

Perhaps metaphor would work better.
I am the clay on the potters wheel.
The rough stone hewn from the mountain.
The fool on a journey.
The prodigal son.
I Am..
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Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
allfoak said:
We could take this conversation in circles.
It should be fun. :)

Someone is just a pronoun, could you be more specific?

Since i am a divided self striving to become whole, describing who i am can be very difficult.
One can only describe who they are to the depth of how well they know themselves.
Some people, if asked to list their good qualities hand you a blank stare for an answer.

If i had succeeded in becoming whole at this point in my life, describing myself would be much easier.
I understand myself to be body, soul and spirit, all having separate consciousness, but i barely even know my body consciousness at this stage of my growth, therefore i am unable to give an accurate description of the rest.
I do not know what it is like for the 3 to be one.
It is my goal to understand this about myself.

So while i used a lot of pronouns and other words that do nothing more than confuse the issue, answering the question "Who or What Am I"? is not one of the things i accomplished.

Perhaps metaphor would work better.
I am the clay on the potters wheel.
The rough stone hewn from the mountain.
The fool on a journey.
The prodigal son.
I Am..
yiog55r6T.png
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Methinks you delight in over complicating one of the simplest things on earth. :)
 
YmirGF

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
I am a multidimensional personality communicating to you through the auspices of my current physical persona fleshed out in your time and space.
 
Sees

Sees

Dragonslayer
All that and mas...the idea "if it changes = it's not real/who I am/what I am" - doesn't work in my opinion. All real things do change and evolve, changelessness is only with abstract ideas that pop up when contemplating real stuff - a perception exercise or artifact.

The Good, Holy, Eternal as a pure and stable is-ness not connected to all the lovely mess is part of a dualistic outlook (yes, as dualistic as anything else) that restricts and categorizes too much, I think.
 
beenherebeforeagain

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
I am (and I assume you are, too) because I (and you) relate to others. We are human persons, relating with other human persons, and other-than-human persons, in the environment in which we live.
 
Moishe3rd

Moishe3rd

Yehudi
A Torah observant Jew; Husband, Father, and Grandfather; a 13th generation American; a Student of History, Religion, and Politics; a George of All Trades, Master of Many; and a Nice Minnesotan.
Pretty much sums it up.
 
Guy Threepwood

Guy Threepwood

Mighty Pirate
AiR said:
When this question is asked, most people answer it in three different ways. The first person answers - I am the body. I look like the body. I have a name. I have a title. I have a designation. I have an appearance. I am this appearance.

But fortunately, some of us are lucky enough to go beyond this and we realize that we are not the body, but we are the self. We are not simply the body, but we are the body, the mind, the intellect, the ego, and the spirit and the soul. When we start realizing that we are not the body and we are actually the self, the human self, which is the composite collection of all these things put together, then we start praying and building a connection with God, because we realize that we are the power within. This is the stage where we move away from the lower state of being just the body. But we have still not reached the higher state of being the spirit of God itself.

A few are luckier still and move to level three, where we realize we are not the body because the body dies and is consumed and goes back to being a part of the five elements. The mind, the intellect and ego - are subtle parts of the body, which leave the body and therefore, are without an identity. When this inner instrument of the mind, intellect, ego complex realizes the truth that we are the divine spirit, God itself and like the wave merges with the ocean, merges with the creator itself, becoming God as God particles, going back to its source, energy - this is reaching the third level of existence.

Therefore, analyze what you think you are. Are you the body? Are you the self? Or are you the spirit of God that lives within you? What are you?

AiR
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I would more or less agree with that-

By analogy a computer is also superficially just a physical body made up of a few materials, on a deeper level this body is a vessel for a higher function- processing digital information, and deeper still, the information represents meaning, communication of will, desire, purpose- as we see here, it is not contained in the body alone, nor does it die with it

Likewise I think, without purpose, will, that transcends our bodies, our bodies would not exist to carry them in the first place.
 
Quagmire

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
"What am I?"

You're someone who doesn't usually bother participating in his own threads.
 
A

AiR

Member
Quagmire said:
"What am I?"

You're someone who doesn't usually bother participating in his own threads.
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I would be happy to participate in my own threads when there is a direct question to answer. If you have a specific question that needs to be addressed, please do let me know.

AiR
 
A

AiR

Member
Nowhere Man said:
I tried asking the atoms directly, but they refuse to say anything.
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I have a suggestion. Instead of asking the atoms directly, just go deep within in silence, and introspect, contemplate, and ask yourself.

I believe you will get the answer.

AiR
 
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