(May 18, 2016 at 8:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Doesn't have to be. What'd you come up with, when you were pondering it?
Well, the only rational thing I could come up with is that this sense...or temptation to ask myself, "why am I me and not anyone else" is just a physiological byproduct of existing as a conscious entity. The very nature of consciousness lends its self to a feeling of separateness from the rest of what is going on "out there." (Rob is gearing up to scratch his solipsistic itch [emoji6]). The urge to ask, 'why aren't I experiencing reality from my husband's point of view, or someone else's?' is just a guilty philosophical indulgence. I think the idea that there is a "reason" for it is just an illusion generated by our humanness.
For me, it's very similar in nature to asking, "why is there something rather than nothing?" Being human, I think we have all been tempted by this question at one time or another, but then we remind ourselves that rationality must always rule over the egocentric nature of human yearnings.
Now, I must apologize because philosophy is NOT my bag, and I'm not sure any of what I just typed is coherent, lol.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
