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Gifted Member
since 2007-06-26
Posts 140Caribbean |
Now can anybody here tell me who they are? I'm not talking about descriptive words or what you do for a living, or your job/career. None of that is who you are. I'm talking about going deeper. REALLY, WHO ARE YOU?! Really think about it. Don't worry because I don't know who I am either. I don not want something like this: Hey I'm Bill from North Carolina, I'm 33 years old, and live with my wife and kids. I do not want nothing like that. Peace. Love. Forgiveness. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Hello again.  I'm having a mid-life crisis. (I hope it is a mid-life crisis, 'cause that means I will live until I am 92.) Because of this mid-life crisis, I'm having difficulty defining myself outside of my various designated roles. Good question though--and I have found that it is the "easy" questions which can be hardest to answer. "I don't know" works for me though. ALOT.  |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
who am I? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
quote: See what I mean? (couldn't resist, Mz. D!)  |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
many hugs to you!!! dear lady SB, who are you???? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I love that song. I once saw The Who in concert and Roger Daltrey jogged in place while singing a twenty minute rendition and never missed a note. http://youtube.com/watch?v=JgQqnzdVqJk A Welcome gift for you, Gifted and of course, Mz. D! (A shorter version--the guys are older--as am I, alas  ) |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
Thank you. very cool. |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
I'm a ball of problems and a basket of cases. “Well all the apostles, they’re sittin’ on the swings, sayin’ I’d sell off my savior for a set of new rings.” |
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Gifted Member
since 2007-06-26
Posts 140Caribbean |
So nobody can tell me who they are? Finding out who I am is huge for me. I even wrote a poem about it. It's posted on the "Teen Poerty" forum. Peace. Love. Forgiveness. |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
Gifted -- if you don't know who you are how do you know that you're not me? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." The Beatles, naturally! The name's Karen. I am (apparently) scoring the musical themes for Pip today!  http://youtube.com/watch?v=0yNcE8c3j2M |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
I think people spend far too much time defining themselves instead of enjoying who they are. I am me. I need no more than that... nor should anyone else. |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
The only way I can find out who I am is to determine who I'm not. It's purely based on deductive reasoning. So I walk around pointing at people who are not me. Otherwise I might think I'm Reb and run around screaming for a tie.  “Well all the apostles, they’re sittin’ on the swings, sayin’ I’d sell off my savior for a set of new rings.” |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Hey Reb - _I_ know I'm not you because I could never grow that cool moustache and beard... it would itch far too much. |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
Hey Chris! What the hell man?! You can't be me; I'm me... EXPLAIN YOURSELF!! “Well all the apostles, they’re sittin’ on the swings, sayin’ I’d sell off my savior for a set of new rings.” |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'm sorry Christopher, but Local Rebel is unavailable to comment right now. Please enjoy this musical selection while you wait: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cizyr3cxdEY (I really need a head-banging smilie) |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
Dear SB, is Local Rebel related to you? I shall be careful when I post to him next time. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
quote: Worked for my Dad too. Navy man.  ------------------------------->zip ducking Christopher! |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
How do you know that I'm not Serenity? and... I am unavailable to post because I'm performing a purification ritual to a shrine of Euclid. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'm Euclid. |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
Somebody |
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Kit McCallum
Administrator
Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
ROFL! God I've missed you guys, lololol. Gifted, I'm glad you started this. I'm cracking up reading this. Too funny. |
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Stephanos
since 2000-07-31
Posts 3618Statesboro, GA, USA |
With this and one of the other threads, I surmise the philosophic pipsters just needed to let off some steam, and have a silly-fest? Stephen. |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
My dear SB, at the backyard? or Local Rebel, how is your hair? Lady SB has good hairs. She can't be you. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Huh? Hmmm. I saw a flock of chickens today, as I walked to the drug store, here in the suburbs of the Greater New Orleans Metro area. Yesterday, Louisiana was the last state in the union to ban cockfighting. Y'think there's a connection? And HEY--that made as much sense as everything else in this thread... *blink* Didn't it? |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
Lady SB, this is tooooo much for one day.  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I know. I am...beside myself. Perhaps, so Gifted doesn't think us horribly rude, someone could introduce her to the "I AM" poetry challenge. Seems like that might be a good idea about now. My humble apologies, Gifted. As Stephanos noted, we've all been a little tense lately and we apparently have a case of the sillies. *ahem* mea culpa |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
Frivolity 101? |
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Stephanos
since 2000-07-31
Posts 3618Statesboro, GA, USA |
Ron, Just wanted to tell you (this is as good a place as any) that my "Atlas Shrugged" came in today. You're going to have to give me a while on this one. It looks as thick as War and Peace. You definitely got the easier part of the deal. When I get done then we can post a thread titled "The abolition of 'Atlas Shrugged'", or perhaps "'The abolition of Man' Shrugged". Stephen. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'm at the point where I think Atlas needed to Shrug! getting pinched nerves and such! OY...  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
For Gifted, and everybody else except Christopher, who is rightfully enjoying himself-- <--huh? huh? *laughing* Here's the "I Am" poetry template: "I AM" I am (two special characteristics you have) I wonder (something you are actually curious about) I hear (an imaginary sound) I see (an imaginary sight) I want (an actual desire) I am (the first line of the poem repeated) I pretend (something you actually pretend to do) I feel (a feeling about something imaginary) I touch (an imaginary touch) I worry (something that really bothers you) I cry (something that makes you very sad) I am (the first line of the poem repeated) I understand (something you know is true) I say (something you believe in) I dream (something you actually dream about) I try (something you really make an effort about) I hope (something you actually hope for) I am (the first line of the poem repeated) * * * Due credit given to the originator of this Pip tradition in the Poetry Challenge thread, um, Alicat! *eg* |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
The "I AM" poem again? I read my first and ONLY submission for that and have the horror of realizing I haven't progressed at all. That is who I am, Gifted. The same person I have always been, just missing a few organs now... (that was for Karen's entertainment, it's okay to snort).meh...good thing I am okay with who I am. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
k - you and angels have about as much in common as Bush and logic (sorry, Mike, couldn't help it). I always enjoy myself... even when I'm bored. It's just one of the perks of being me.  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Angels are merely messengers. Don't shoot 'em, C. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
I am unique, and here ya go Karanity  |
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Gifted Member
since 2007-06-26
Posts 140Caribbean |
Mayn, what did you guys turn this into? LOL. I leave for a couple seconds and this is what I come to find. DANG!! Well I know I am me, but then who is "me"? Eveybody wants to be themselves... well almost everybody, but how can you be yourself if you don't know who you are? You need to think deeper about this. Peace. Love. Forgiveness. |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
Gifted "but how can you be yourself if you don't know who you are? You need to think deeper about this." I got you logic. 1. first to Know who I am...learn knowledge first. 2. then based on the knowledge about me so I can be myself. where shall I learn about myself? 1. from others....scary 2. from myself...how? who is "myself"? "myself" is who I am. but I can be who I am because I have no knowledge of myself based on your statement. not something like 1. first be myself...follow my own brain and my own senses and my own judgment. 2. then to learn who I am. (?) truth and knowledge truth comes before knowledge or knowledge comes before truth? |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
And still yet--forgetting all of that--*glare*--I'd like to leave you, Gifted one, with one more bit of music--most apt, I do believe, suiting the manner in which you were received: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFhDfGwbys DREAM SWEET DRAUNTZ. *laughing* and ~welcome~, Gifted! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Gifted? Another answer to the challenge (most of us have a written a few of these, but I still think it is a great way to find the answers to your question.) So I offer you a new one from me, and I do hope to read yours soon. /pip/Forum103/HTML/003737.html I sincerely hope we didn't scare you off--we don't generally "haze" new members, but you took it so well, so...thank you! |
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Gifted Member
since 2007-06-26
Posts 140Caribbean |
Oh nah, it's cool. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. However, I know this is a journey I have to embark on by myself Peace. Love. Forgiveness. |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
quote: Yeah, you're welcome. “Well all the apostles, they’re sittin’ on the swings, sayin’ I’d sell off my savior for a set of new rings.” |
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sullivanthepoet.com Member
since 2007-06-28
Posts 154Devon, England |
"Cogitas ergo sum" "Live free in the world and owe allegiance to no man" |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
"Welcome to the jungle" hahaha, Karen you crack me up. “Well all the apostles, they’re sittin’ on the swings, sayin’ I’d sell off my savior for a set of new rings.” |
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God Junior Member
since 2007-06-26
Posts 18Above you |
quote: Did someone call me? I am. |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
My dear lady SB, can't dream well when something bungles my thought. have a wonderful day. saw you poem...have to read it. bye here. |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Gifted, Just to acknowledge the point, your question is not an easy one to answer. And most of us have struggled our way through and grown into the answer(a long time ago). But to go as "deep" as you have suggested is not always a public forum answer. And secondly for some of us it could require a lot of space to answer. I'm available for emails on the subject in the event you are serious. In the mean time you just as well lay claim to a really rockin' fun thread. Peace... If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. |
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Gifted Member
since 2007-06-26
Posts 140Caribbean |
I'm glad I made a fun thread. Now, you said that some of you grew into your answers, but some people pass away, and don't even get to find out who they were. However, I know finding out who I am is a journey I must complete on my own. Peace. Love. Forgiveness. |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
I ween that you know who you are. You just don't know how to say it. |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. I am not I by Juan Ramon Jimenez http://swearercenter.brown.edu/poetry/lessons/details.php?lesson_id=10 . |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
Hi, gifted, there are many forms...all kinds of to evaluate oneself or something like self-finding topic. Do you like to answer all those kind questions to find out who you are or what kind of ability you have? |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. How very different this Western pursuit of apart self from the Eastern quest for non-distinction. . |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
I believe that western and eastern are all the same.... all self-interest!!! |
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Balladeer
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Well, I'm not a ween-er like Essorant but, Yes, I know who I am but I'm sworn to secrecy! |
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Gifted Member
since 2007-06-26
Posts 140Caribbean |
Well Drauntz, I don't know about any forms, I just want to know who I am. Simple as dat, however, it's not that simple. Peace. Love. Forgiveness. |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
quote: What exactly do you mean? There are certain things that define us but we don't need them to know who we are. Yes, Van Gogh was a painter; but take away his paint brush and he was still Van Gogh. It's all about the inner life, the life of the mind, not your occupation or your style or your name or any of that stuff. And if you're completely confused by your inner life as we all have been at one point or another, then introduce you to yourself. Seriously. Get a piece of paper and pencil and write down all your beliefs. Do I believe in Santa Claus? Do I believe in God? Do I like the color red? Can I spell antidisestablishmentarianism? Do I know the long-term effects of silicone dust on the lungs? Am I conservative or liberal? Republican, Democrat or nonpartisan? What's my favorite subject in school? What's my favorite pastime? Where do I want to go in life? Where don't I want to go in life? What do I want or don't want? Need and don't need? Why do I wear red socks instead of white socks? Who am I? After you've pondered all your questions, you'll probably end up with an answer like Chris's: "I am me." Or you could just think about it the way I do: I figure I'm probably not the type of person I want to hang out with, so I don't bother knowing myself. “Well all the apostles, they’re sittin’ on the swings, sayin’ I’d sell off my savior for a set of new rings.” |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
For me, the answer to your question lies along this pathway: /main/forumdisplay.cgi?action=displayarchive&number=92&topic=003682 /pip/Forum103/HTML/000792.html |
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XOx Uriah xOX Senior Member
since 2006-02-11
Posts 1403Virginia |
I AM ... that which is when "I" is not. |
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