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PizzerJustMetHer t1_j3wh9p2 wrote

You can’t escape context. It’s become popular in western society to self-reflect while attempting to remove oneself from any contextual reality. As in, “Who am I if I’m suspended in a vacuum free of the bounds of history, evolution, time and space?” In my opinion it’s an ego issue wherein people are not willing to accept that there are real things they cannot control about themselves or the context they exist in.

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Efficient-Squash5055 t1_j3xs8bs wrote

Exactly. No one can remove themselves from the context of who they are in any moment (culture, personal lived experiences, language, beliefs, scientific views of the era, etc. etc.). Like a whale, you might float to your own surface, but in the water you still are ha.

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j42slh6 wrote

>No one can remove themselves from the context of who they are in any moment (culture, personal lived experiences, language, beliefs, scientific views of the era, etc. etc.).

A few conversations with me and you might change your mind about that.

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Efficient-Squash5055 t1_j42ufl5 wrote

That sounds like a very strong confident assumption about you and me; I wonder if you can easily act outside that contextual believed-in framework ? 😁

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j433a4r wrote

Other person: You should watch this movie, I think you'd enjoy it.

My thoughts: ("Should" is a myth, the universe does not revolve around us organisms, we humans are just egomaniacs, even if the Judeo-Christian God existed He could not logically make Himself "should" say "Let there be light!" or make the light "should" exist at any point in time)

My words: Okay, I'll check it out, thanks for the suggestion!

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Also, I did say "you might change your mind". 😁

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j437frs wrote

>As in, “Who am I if I’m suspended in a vacuum free of the bounds of history, evolution, time and space?”

That would be a trick question. I am who I am unlike my "parallell universe twin" that had coffee this morning instead of cereal but looks identical in every other way, he is who he is, he has his identity and I have mine. He exists in a universe that had a slightly different beginning (Big Bang or whatever) and will have a different end (Butterfly Effect) and I exist in this one. This universe is this universe (past, present, future) and that universe is that universe (past, present, future) and if you took me and my twin out of those universes before we had breakfast this morning we would still be who we were, we just would be unable to tell the difference as we were not born with birthmarks, mine saying "Made by Big Bang A"´, his "Made by Big Bang B".

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