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Who Are We?

What defines us?
Justpeaceandlove · 61-69, F
In the physical sense every thing you learn about you. In the spiritual sense everything you learn about what you are not.
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
But what can be considered knowledge? How do I know that what is claimed to be true is true?
Justpeaceandlove · 61-69, F
@Winterwanderer: you will just know.
Justpeaceandlove · 61-69, F
Don't rush anything.
MrSpecialEnough · 22-25, M
Someday? Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life. Don't you talk to me about murder. All it ever took was a down payment on a Lincoln town car. That girl, you can't even call that girl. What the fuck are you still doing driving a cab? Take comfort in knowing you never had a choice.
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
That's a useless way of thinking, it's as if you're going out of ways to make yourself insignificant.

If you want to take the exact opposite perspective (which almost no one does sadly), we're infinitely large, in an infinitely grand amount of time. We're composed of incredibly small components as the universe is composed of incredibly small components. Extremely minuscule amounts of time have had and continue to have extreme significance in the universe, some of the most important events in our universe happened within like 10^-48s of each other, portions of time nearly indistinguishable from each other formed the most important aspects of our universe. We are at a perspective where we can experience both the grandness of light years and nanometers.

We have such an opportunistic perspective, we're ginormous & we're small, there are worlds larger than us and worlds smaller than us.

Imagine we were the largest entity, the multiverse or whatever, what then? Would that make us greater? We'd have nowhere to explore beyond us, because we are everything, now say we were the smallest entity, some 'string' or wormhole, then we'd be truly be dwarfed and it'd be harder to understand scale because everything else that exists is larger than us. At our perspective we can admire everything as great in its own regards, if you compare an atom to Jupiter, of course there's going to be a significant difference in size, but there are a lot of different ways to look at things, a lot of different comparisons.

I notice you, I noticed what you said, I didn't see how big or small you were, I just saw what you said, and if I would, I would see who you are (in time). What real importance is there in physical size? What is allowed to be called important?
MrSpecialEnough · 22-25, M
@Winterwanderer: Dang, that's deep. I know, that's what she said.
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
Woah, so good.
Bean17 · 46-50, F
Well--you are you and I am me!😉
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
I agree with the idea that it really does influence how we think and who we become, but as for defining who we are, I think we're something more than all of these things, all of these things we are and all of these things we've done. Something I can't quite place my finger on.. maybe it's the soul? Maybe it's free will? Or 'I', meaning my consciousness.

Either way, there's something more..
Bean17 · 46-50, F
@Winterwanderer: Well therein lies the beauty of the mystery in us which escapes defining. The essence of who we are cannot be defined in words, and also needs to be intriguing to pique our interests in going on the path of discovering who we really are as spiritual beings having a human experience.😊
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
I'll take that answer (; incorporeal bodies in a corporeal world.
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Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
What is that?

 
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