I Am Simply Me, Myself and I

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1Erato
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I Am Simply Me, Myself and I

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No sense in saying Who that is since it is always changing and interchangeable. I hope I put this in the proper place.

I can say though that I am happy to be here.
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. . .but who you are interests me, even though it might evolve, or otherwise. And, too, the selfness that you briefly articulate fascinates me. And only for the reason that "I" am a nothingness, although with a vacillating notion of identity.

Nevertheless, I welcome you to this site, and invite you to this wonderland of thought.
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Dmitre Nicholovitch wrote:. . .but who you are interests me, even though it might evolve, or otherwise. And, too, the selfness that you briefly articulate fascinates me. And only for the reason that "I" am a nothingness, although with a vacillating notion of identity.

Nevertheless, I welcome you to this site, and invite you to this wonderland of thought.
Thank you. :twisted: Me, Myself and I might be looked on as a minimalist's perspective or just as a knowing process or maybe like the waves of the sea which ebb and flow and are sometimes still. Nice to meet you. Nice name you have.
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Are there a permanent essences of 1Erato and Dmitre, apart from paper identity documents, passwords, thumbprints and DNA profiles?
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Belinda wrote:Are there a permanent essences of 1Erato and Dmitre, apart from paper identity documents, passwords, thumbprints and DNA profiles?
Good question. I can only speak for myself, from my own perspective and inner awareness. I intuit - and have experienced the permanent essences which surge within me - though they are like the ocean, they flow and they ebb. But I am aware of certain qualities which define me in the moment. - like the weather whose nature remains the same yet can be depended upon to always be different. I may not have said that as clearly as I meant to. So though they appear to be permanent in a sense, they are also malleable and capable of transformation. Perhaps that doesn't, after all, define permanent.
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Are your "permanent essences" within you from your conception until your demise? I grant that you have predispositions and passions . However those predispositions and passions might change for instance if your brain changes dramatically, through trauma, or if it's under the influence of chemicals from the outer environment or made by your own endocrine glands.

If you have all your limbs amputated, then get heart, lung, pancreas, liver and face transplants, then loose your memory, what have you left of your "permanent essences" ?
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Belinda
Are your "permanent essences" within you from your conception until your demise? I grant that you have predispositions and passions . .
I don't think - at least, I don't - that we're born with particular essences. Our DNA, our genes, come to us through our conception and birth but our personal essence, our spiritual essence (not meaning soul necessarily) comes to us I intuit through our journey which we begin at birth. It's a part of that whole process of living, I think. Of course, if there IS such a thing as reincarnation as some believe, it's possible we bring our past essence into this life. I don't believe in it though it might be wonderful to have more chances in which "to get it right".

However those predispositions and passions might change for instance if your brain changes dramatically, through trauma, or if it's under the influence of chemicals from the outer environment or made by your own endocrine glands.
Most definitely. Much of who we are is because of our brain's interface with the outer world, with those brain chemicals. with those dancing neurons. I think that though the human brain is very similar for everyone, in other ways it's an entirely different picture show for all of us.

If you have all your limbs amputated, then get heart, lung, pancreas, liver and face transplants, then loose your memory, what have you left of your "permanent essences" ?
That's not an easy question to answer. It's one of the hard ones. I think that that might depend on one's will to power (inner strength to transcend our selves) and one's inner being to have the capacity to struggle through and to transform one's self. So I don't know. I am at a stage where I've come to realize that what I've thought of myself, know of myself, might be in conflict with what I'm discovering of my self. In essence, perhaps I'm less of a self than I thought and more in ambiguous flux. That's not a bad thing.
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