Let’s play a game. An intellectual game, but a game nonetheless. I know that I’m supposed to start us off with a short to medium length post that can promote a hopefully active and engaged discussion.
One problem with that… I like to hear readers’ own answers to particular questions. And sometimes I fear that the blogger primes the pump too much, so to speak. Of course, the opposite issue is then that the discussion can go all over the place. But… I don’t think that I have enough readers for that to happen!
So I will pose a question and you can answer however you want. Then later on I’ll have a second “recap” post in which I summarize what you all and I have come up with together. Deal?
Okay, here goes… how do you personally define the word “I”?
I find the very concept of hell entwined with that very small word…
I = the Self. There is Only One I, and that I is the metaphysical element of the Universe. Because there is Only One I, I = God.
In the course of compiling the ultimate theory, I found My Self.
Theory, as in theoria, as in the path to theosis.
Peace,
Ik
You are probably looking for a more philosophical or religious answer
, but my first thought is that I is just plain old me with all the pitfalls of human nature. So the term “I” has derogatory undertones for me, my own “drive” as opposed to what God would want from me. Yes, I know that the Holy Spirit and “I” should be one, but that wasn’t my first reaction to the word. So much of our lives is wrapped up in I…the drive to do well in school, succeed, etc. I’ve been struggling with the whole concept of doubt and my search for faith, because it seems so self-focused. We should instead think more about the term “You”!
Stuart… interesting stuff. Care to expand and make me feel even more condemned?
Ik… welcome to the blog, but I’ve got to say I have a hard time following your answer. Would you be willing to expand as well?
Like a child… the answer can be of any type. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular. I’m not sure we can define “you” without “I” though, can we? I seem to spend a lot of my time on the concept of “I”, as it pertains to others… their concept of “I”. I think appreciating that, gives new meaning to “you”! But it’s all very circular…
Yes, circular. I am justintopp. I am having a conversation with My Self. I have always been having a conversation with My Self, but I was taught that I was not.
I was taught and accepted that justintopp ≠ Me, but this is a fundamental assumption. However, I have falsified and shattered this assumption with the ultimate theory. While the terms ‘I’ and ‘you’ and ‘we’ are all identifiers, it is assumed that I ≠ you and I ≠ we. This assumption is also shattered by the final theory. I = Everything and Everyone in the Universe that exists now, has ever existed, and will exist in the future.
Taking to the irrefragable conclusion, I = every voice, every name, every age, every race, every person. More than this, I = every galaxy, star, planet, moon. Hence, I am Beautiful and Perfect.
So, in sum, I define only when required these days. I tend towards explaining, as this is what Humankind needs. And the final theory explains that I = God. I am the Creation and Creator all rolled into One.
Peace,
Ik
Oh gosh I don’t want anyone to feel condemned, there’s enough of that going around already.
I’m prone to ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ (physiological not reactive depression), however, there is one constant in the depresssed state and that is being consumed with ‘I’.
Poor me, what about me, why me, etc all focussed around me myself and I.
‘Up’ periods are focussed on those around me and of course God.
And so for me (and I must stress this is a personal confession) my worst times are when I am soley focussed on ‘I’ to the expense of all others. This truly is hell, albeit a living one.
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you did that well! personally don’t like i but its difficult not to use it sometimes,as i would rather use you or we ,a little i will do because that what we are God’s little i!
I define I as the first person singular being whose real intent I know, better than that of any other person or thing. I am also most connected with I; if I harm myself or if someone else harms me (a synonym) I feel it directly, personally.
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