RE: Why am I me?
February 15, 2012 at 3:33 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2012 at 3:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:The question here is why are my memories my experiences are unique to "me" whatever "me" is.
Are they? Don't your parents have memories of you as a child that are within the grasp of your own recollection? You aren't your memories. You have memories. We could swing this pendulum back and forth but at no time do we need to lay a mystical sense of wonderment over it.
Quote:It surly does not have to be me and furthermore, i was in charge of my body long before i experienced anything at all.
No, you weren't.
Quote:Most of my experiences and memories were choices I made to experience. I was still me before I made those connections in my brain to become a good musician.
.......and you remain yourself after having learned to play, correct.
Quote:Memories and experiences do not explain why your body chose to bring you into existence
I'm not sure that anyone is proposing the idea that memories have such powers.......so I don't know who or what you're arguing against here.
Quote:and not one of the other billions of life forms.
hint: memories and experiences that an individual may one day have exert no influence on what types of creatures their parents will be. Again, I don't know who or what you feel proposes this, but it's definitely not anything even approximating the "party line" on the matter.
Quote:It's a mystery to us all
Not the things you mentioned above, no. They are apparently a mystery to you, working from some strange ideas.
Quote:and if it proves to be evidence of something more then so be it.
"It" would have to be evidence to begin with.
Quote:I am not an anti-theist, I welcome the idea of grand designer.
I would hope so, being a christian.
Quote:Christopher Hitchens was against it which was his freedom of choice to make. I on the other hand do not welcome the idea of never existing or never seeing my loved ones again. So I will search for something more but never impose on others anything or condemn anyone.
I don't welcome the idea either, but that doesn't mean that it isn't the case. Glad to know that you aren't the condemning type. Breath of fresh air.
Quote:I may find nothing at all, i may find something or i may be dismissed all together but in the end I hope God is standing there.
So, nothing yet?
Quote:Hate and war is all a human condition, rid the world of religion believe me people will find ways to kill again (oil, money, greed, land, race, political beliefs and they will always invent something to keep killing)
Agreed. But they won't have one "way" available to them, a reason that goes right alongside all the others as "a human condition"..religion.
Quote:.....evolutionary instincts are the reason we are in troulble not religion.
they both have their part to play, especially when they meet on fertile grounds.
Quote: If religion were invented by man then man will go on iventing other reason to keep on thinking one is better then the other long after religion is gone.
That is precisely what we have done so far.
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