RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 8:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2016 at 8:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 17, 2016 at 5:54 pm)quip Wrote: Ontological identity had to come about at some point.-but, apparently, not before my conception, huh?![]()
Quote:The question is odd though sound. Look, the premise is simple...just take an introspective look at your life. Have you ever wondered exactly why you are who you are; as a teenager did you wonder why you weren't the star football player or prom queen (assuming, like most of us, you weren't); why were you born into the family you were born into and the "what-if" fantasy of being somebody else. Well, why weren't you?No, I wasn't a star football player because I didn't put the hours in. I wasn't a prom queen because I have entirely too much penis. Let me guess....though, you think the answer to all of these questions is " because magic"....huh.
Quote:I'm simply expanding upon that nascent wonderment and making an ontological query into exactly how or why any one particular self among a historical amalgamation of selves has been, existentially speaking, personally discernible as "you".-and you've received plenty of sensible, easily demonstrable answers, despite your litany of insensible questions and responses. What's the problem?
Quote:If nothing else comes of this, it aptly illustrates that the very hand-waving efforts at dismissing/dodging the inquiry exposes a blind spot within the atheist perspective.Another inexplicable belief you have, to add to the pile, it would seem.
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