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Why do I think who do I think I am?

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Not sure but it certainly has nothing to do with hostages or anything like that. The image is from a comedy website and it was just meant to be a joke. Didn't mean to cause any offence.
 
To be honest, I thought it was quite funny, and apt.

Not often you get the two together

Probably not suitable though
 

teppic said:
that is a good answer, because it tries not to give an answer.


think of life as a narrative or a movie. a question becomes a photograph or a snapshot and the question we asked yesterday will be different from the question we ask tomorrow.

the problem with giving an answer is that the question becomes fixed because the answer is fixed. this is a problem. as life changes so should the questions change.

well what is the point of an unanswered question?

well the answer is it's the inference of the question itself. it's a process a focusing process that is open to change.
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ok away from adams exploding head, i just want to expand on this a little bit.

perhaps if anyone has any thoughts they could add their own notes..


back to answers and what they mean.

you may change an answer but that answer may be changed in relation to a question as time goes on so i'd be very wary of answers.

so the question.... what influences change in a question?

well certain circumstances may change. externally in terms of family, environment, surroundings, finance and internally such as physical ability, psychological state and mood drivers. so there is a whole rake of things going on here. life is a kalidescope of change, you don't want any shutters put down on it.

questions open doors. answers close them.


questions are progressive and stimulating while answers are prescriptive and bring closure.

and one more thing to think about. what if the answer is wrong!

so lets apply this. lets take a simple thing. lets say for example 'i want'. but not taken in the way meaning i want a cup of tea, or i want a great passing midfielder! it's meant in a more philosophical i want.

what do i want?

how do i know what i want is what i want rather than just what i think i want.

how specific in time and place is my want?

do i want it in terms of myself, to feel good or for somebody else?

what happens if it is a bad want? should i only have good wants?

each of these are a qualification on the i want. and each of these qualifications could also be qualified. so there is quite a lot going on here in a simple question of 'i want'.

from this surely the process is more important than the outcome. curiosity and movement not status nor conclusion is the preferred state.

so as long as we are thinking, deducing and probing we are ok.

the minute it's fixed, the minute we know the answers the minute we are no longer interested in developing anything spells trouble.

but!

lets apply it to another one.

who do i think i am? not who am i but who do i think i am? how can we define this?

instead of saying i am so and so... how do we do it?

do i look at personality? do i look to my traits? good or bad? hidden or unhidden? do my action define me? how important are my attributes.. physical, intellectual and emotional? are they consistant? do they change? if so how do they change?

how much of us is hidden subconsiously? do i hide parts? if i do, do i hide them because i think they are bad? do i think they are bad because when i first had them like when a child thinks something is bad which isn't now? am i hung up on this? is there any benefit in this introspection? is there a level of embarrassment that stops me from analysing myself? and how honest am i in terms of my analysis?

from which perspective do i see myself? is it how others see me or how i'd like others to see me? so this whole canvas is being built up of who do i think i am.

ok there are a lot of questions here. but they are all rhetorical.

rhetorical because we don't want to answer them. we just want to get a feeling for how we develop. eventually you will find yourself with answers but they will be inferred rather than given answers.

ok so what does this mean to me?


well a meaning on a way to live life perhaps? lets look at the PhD's the whizz kids, the model society. they have an objective. they define the objective and they do a regressive analysis to get back to where they are.

they have all the answers. they start off with the answers. then they wonder why life is a bit complcated, why it doesn't work the way they expect it to work.

so less introspection and following rules will open more doors to the person you think you think you are.

phew~!
 
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chicoazul said:
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For simple creatures such as I.
The rest of you probably get it.
When you take the topic away from savoury foods and sauces then I'm as helpless as a spiked male at a Barrymore pool party.
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dear god, that wasn't a slight, old boy.

an open minded post perhaps just getting carried away with itself.
 
chicoazul said:
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For simple creatures such as I.
The rest of you probably get it.
When you take the topic away from savoury foods and sauces then I'm as helpless as a spiked male at a Barrymore pool party.
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Did someone mention Bill? This can become a Kenwrong thread in no time. :unsure:
 

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