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What is Self ?

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What is Self ?
downbeatplumb Offline
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#11
RE: What is Self ?
June 28, 2014 at 3:59 am
Self is your brains operating system, evolved over eons.



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Mudhammam Offline
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RE: What is Self ?
June 28, 2014 at 4:16 am
The self is a representation your brain gives for the entire organism others call you.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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#13
RE: What is Self ?
June 28, 2014 at 5:03 am
Free will.
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RE: What is Self ?
June 28, 2014 at 8:31 am (This post was last modified: June 28, 2014 at 8:35 am by vodkafan.)
(June 28, 2014 at 3:59 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Self is your brains operating system, evolved over eons.

I like this simple definition, downbeatplumb.

Muslim Atheism, your thoughts about vibrations etc smack one in the side of the head as New Age Woo.
Selfs are like arseholes we all got one. No need to mystify them. Thinking
(June 28, 2014 at 5:03 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: Free will.

It do make me laugh when Christians of all people talk of Free will....
ROFLOL

Go on...please amuse me some more .
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
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RE: What is Self ?
June 28, 2014 at 8:58 am
"What is the meaning for all this" kinda questions don't add much and they have no real answers .

Just live your life and die like everybody else .
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RE: What is Self ?
June 28, 2014 at 9:17 am (This post was last modified: June 28, 2014 at 9:17 am by Cato.)
@OP,
You might be less susceptible to the Chopra type woo bullshit if you had a basic understanding of how magnetic fields work. Chopra and his ilk's conctant invocation of vibration is meaningless pseudoscientific drivel meant to impress and ensnare the ignorance of the simple minded. I recommend a basic course in physics.

The use of heart and soul in your diagram suggest you could also use a basic biology course.
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RE: What is Self ?
June 28, 2014 at 1:11 pm
Self is the part of the mind that is capable of asking "what is self?"
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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