posted November 28, 2013 02:14 AM            

I think it's because...you can't categorise me as anything really. I don't behave like anything. I am the ultimate androgynous individual! Sure, I am physically male, but I don't behave male. And I have no connection to my body either. I don't behave female either, or anything else. I even look like a mix of both. I don't care to look a certain way, I am just myself. Same with sexuality - I don't behave gay or bi and I most certainly am not heterosexual either. So like, what am I? An object. Just an object that happens to be alive.

posted November 28, 2013 02:47 AM            

Also this may not really be a direct answer to your question but it's what I thought of.

I'm NOT religious. I don't have any particular set of do's and don'ts, etc. I am "spiritual" I guess you could say.
The reason that I even MENTION that is because in my personal view, which it is only a viewpoint of one person. So I don't want to get involved in some heated discussion.

I don't get caught up in sexuality, race, personality. (Not that you do either! I'm just saying.) At least not when I think of someone as a part of the human race. As a person. A person to me has a soul that at the core of everyone, is really what makes them individual. It's little influences on who we are and how we behave, subtly.
I just know that I have yet to be proven wrong, but everyone wants love, to be social, to have friends, they want to be part of a family, to be accepted. Just a lot of those basic needs, common needs, among all people all around the world.
I can be aggressive, mean, etc. But sometimes if I actually take the time to think a little deeper. I can like even the most grumpy, annoying person I know. Simply because I know that they fight the same basic battles that I fight. No one escapes mortality and we all have to face it. They desire the same basic things that I do - such as love. Love from who seems irrelevant to me - love is the common point.

So to me it's those things that make a person - a person. Whether they be short, tall, fat, skinny, a midget, black, Asian, White... gay, bi, rich or middle class, poor, whatever.

Well anyway, I just want to reiterate, it's only my viewpoint.

posted November 28, 2013 03:08 AM            

I am nihilistic, which is supposed to be a common phase for teenagers. The thing is, I am still optimistic and concerned about developments too, so I really don't think I'm just going through a bitter, cynical phase...

I'm sort of spiritual too, in ways. I keep things open because I don't believe anything can be known right now, though I do subscribe to the idea of cause and effect as the only closest thing to a moral principle in the universe.

I don't believe in right on wrong, per se, just that what you put out comes back eventually.

posted November 28, 2013 04:09 AM            

I was the boy next door the today
I going to be a seductive sex kitten tomorrow (EDIT:apparently on thanksgiving, well this should be interesting)
I going to hide and be invisible from the world the next day. ( ^ accurate :P)

I have a chameleon soul, with no fixed personality..
Honestly when I'm by myself I'm kinda of this blob of nothingness or maybe I'm everything.
I know my personality changes around different types of people but it depends too on how I want to portray myself.
I think it's cool I have this talent of being different people, looks and personality wise.

posted November 28, 2013 04:55 AM            

An interesting group...

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12muddy: I think being aware of death urges me to find a way to live my life in a way that is meaningful to me.

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Even death doesn't sway me. I mean, it's inevitable, right? I could die tomorrow and it would be okay. I don't think I would even be afraid if someone said they were going to kill me. I'd die willingly because, I believe in reincarnation, and as such, I've died millions of times before. This life is but one stepping stone!!

posted November 28, 2013 05:02 AM            

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Originally posted by somethingexcellent:
What does it mean to you, to be human?

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To me being a person is having thoughts, ideas, impulses, and self-aware (sentient). Objects are inanimate and don't have these things (at least not in a way we humans can recognize) and therefore you are a person rather than an object.

posted November 28, 2013 05:31 AM            

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PixieJane: and therefore you are a person rather than an object.

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posted December 12, 2013 09:40 PM            

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posted December 13, 2013 12:47 AM            

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Originally posted by somethingexcellent:
I've been talking with a friend eventually I came to the conclusion that...I don't even view myself as a person, I view myself as an object. I'm serious! I'm just a collection of impulses and ideas which is attracted to other ideas. I feel alive but I don't feel human nor animal.

I think it's because...you can't categorise me as anything really. I don't behave like anything. I am the ultimate androgynous individual! Sure, I am physically male, but I don't behave male. And I have no connection to my body either. I don't behave female either, or anything else. I even look like a mix of both. I don't care to look a certain way, I am just myself. Same with sexuality - I don't behave gay or bi and I most certainly am not heterosexual either. So like, what am I? An object. Just an object that happens to be alive.

So idk, I guess I'm asking for other people's views on being a person. What does it mean to you, to be human?

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posted December 13, 2013 02:13 AM            

All the while realizing they are "there"

The bar lowers of course, based on current state of being, lest the George Shaw dictum proves to be true:

"please justify your existence"

Depending on the state one finds themselves in, or a complete incapacity to answer, the Whitaker Chambers response to Ayn Rand's writings:

"...to the gas chamber go!..."

posted December 13, 2013 05:40 AM            

The idea of personhood requiring some kind of protocol seems counter-intuitive to my concept of the word. The way I see it, there is everything-goop and then there are objectified nodes of everything-goop. The nodes are goop personified. Though they appear unique, they are all unique perspectives of interaction with the same goop.

Goopism Book 1:1

posted December 27, 2013 03:45 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
A corporation is a person.

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LOL

posted December 27, 2013 05:35 AM            

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A corporation is a person.

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Unless the corporate veil is pierced