Response to: Shaping Our Identity

By:

Matt Gallagher

The idea of a unified identity is very intriguing. I would actually liken it to the way the mind processes ideas and concepts. Lets take a cup for example. It is safe to assume almost anyone knows what a cup is; its properties. The cup holds items, holds liquids, is used for consuming. Everyone with the "idea" of the cup would define it as such but one's mental picture of it would be quite different from that of another's. When i say cup to you, you may picture a glass entity, elongated in shape, yet simplistic,whereas my "idea" of the cup may be round, stout, and ceramic. Although very different, both ideas of the cup are correct because the properties remain constant.

This general concept can be applied to the human identity. In Dillon's post, he brings up the notion that identity may be a constant or an imprint. Id like too introduce the possibility that what changes our identities is our idea of them; our subconscious projections of our identities. And it is not our identities that change with influence but our projections. With this concept one can then suggest the results of removing an identity. If for instance a man lost his memories or simply his identity, he could, in effect, resort back to the "definition" of identity; the general identity applied at birth or written into our "code".

I’m interested in getting others opinions on this. Post some comments.

thanks for listening,

Matt

A Goal Of Mine

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Shaping Our Identity

By:

Dillon Wheeler

In this post, I mention identity a lot, and I just wanted to say, by identity I mean our conscious, way we act, think, our intelligence, memory, every brain process that is unique to each Human Being after a certain point. With that said, lets begin, shall we?

This is how we are physically identified,

but how do we identify our minds?

Over the past week, I have begun to wonder something. Something about reality. Something about Us. I began to wonder if we all start off exactly the same, and our identities are shaped by internal and external environments.

I mean, as soon as we are conceived, are we all equal? Equal in the sense that we have no identity? Again, I don't mean like eight months in the womb, I mean as soon as we are conceived, at the very moment when life has begun.

This is conception.

And if we are all the same, do we exist individually or are we everyone and everyone is us? Like a singular collective mind?

A collection of videos, like the higher collective

mind, if all humans were one.

But the question is, how would we know? If everyone was identical, what would we be?

As I sat on the daily train ride home, I looked to the man sitting across from me. I watched him for a brief time (I'm not a creeper…. I think) and I imagined myself being that man, and in truth, it was not that hard to imagine. There exist the distinct possibility that I could have been him and he could have been me, us being each other, "mentally" of course, and under the right circumstances.

Circumstances.

Let me give you an example, say twins are born at the exact same moment. By some occurrence, their parents gave them up for adoption, so both children are given up for adoption at the exact same time, and are both adopted by different people.

So here we are, with two infant human beings. Could we say that these babies have identities? Maybe, but most likely the answer would be No (refer to what I mean by identity at the top). So now lets believe these babies have grown up, one became a good man and the other an evil man. What is there that leads us to believe that these men were destined to become good and evil?

The Fictional Good Man - His parent treated him with care, gave him attention, encouraged and loved him.

The Fictional Evil Man - His parent mistreated him, gave him no attention, showed no love towards him.

There is a fine line between

good and evil.

So the environment that these twins grew up in, influenced their identity, it shaped them to become what they are now. So then we reverse their environments, the good twin is placed in the abusive home, and the evil twin is placed in the loving home. When they grew up, would the good twin still become the good twin, and the evil twin become evil? Or would their roles be reversed? It is likely that their roles would indeed become reversed, and so we could say that the two twins started off with "blank slates".

So if everyone starts off with blank slates, does that mean we can choose our identity? Does that mean that I chose who I am?

What if there is a singular identity and that everyone is a representation of that single identity? Would that identity be God's identity? Or does that mean something else, like the existence of reality all together?

Contemplate this, perhaps we were all created by God's vision (Im not very religious by the way) and subtle variations in the "formula" for identity made us all what we are now. Subtle variations meaning the environment I illustrated in the example above.

God's vision.

If this "formula" made us all what we are now, can we say that therefore we are all God himself? To make it clear, what I mean is that perhaps we all started off as God had intended (A vision of himself, or Adam if you will) but then, along the way, we morphed and mutated into what and who we are through the internal and external environments.

I am not a firm believer in God, though I do believe in a higher power, although not what you would think (maybe i will get into it in a future blog post?) and to conclude, sorry, but I do not know the answer to the questions I posed.

Oh, and if you like the blog and enjoy reading my writing, follow the blog, or drop a few comments telling me what you think, the feedback, good or bad would be much appreciated,

Thank You,

Dillon Wheeler

The Advancement of Mankind

By:

Dillon Wheeler

Do you think there was ever an advanced civilization of humans before us? Or perhaps an alternate reality in which we are much more advanced than we presently are? It is definitely something to ponder.

(Thinking: It's good for you!)

It has been said (and by logic this holds truth) that we only know a small fraction of our past history. Now think about it. All of what we know is because there has been things left behind. Artifacts, fossils, buried cities, rock carvings, all of these things is what has shaped our image of history. Past civilizations represented by clay pottery. Primitive stone axes representing

agriculture. It's all their, and we like to think (like to think as in we have CLAIMED) that everything we know is true. Now my question is, what if that is not true? What if what we truly know is much more than anthropologists, geologists, and whatever other ologists, tell the media? Write in the history books? What if there was that fabled atlantis?

(This is our history as we are told)

One day I was sitting in my seventh grade science class, It was an average day, nothing out of the ordinary, but I can't be sure about that, I wasn't paying much attention to my teacher. That is, until he told our class something that would be more important that anything else in my life. He once told me a story about an island, during the Greek or Roman era's, that was extremely advanced for it's time. He claimed they had running water, hot tubs, imagine that, hot tubs! flushing toilets, and many other pleasantries you and I take for granted in our advanced day and age. He told me the name of them, which I can not recall now. The point is, here we are, many centuries ago, and there is this island with all this advanced technology, how did they get it? Where did it come from? Were these people that brilliant and innovative or did someone help them? I don't know the answers to these questions. Nevertheless, catastrophe struck this island, wiping out everyone on it. What hit them? I am not sure, I don't think anthropologists are either. I think I was told that they believed it was a hurricane, or some other natural disaster, but truthfully, it could have been anything.

(Could this island have been Atlantis?)

My point of that story was, all we know of that advanced civilization, was that in our eyes they were far ahead of there time in the water and piping department, because, of what we have recovered. We have absolutely no idea how advanced this civilization could have been, running water today, electricity, combustible engines tomorrow?

How far advanced would this civilization have been, if it were not wiped off the face of the Earth? Would we be where we are now? That was technology that was not replicated for centuries! imagine the technology there could and would have been today.

It would be above our wildest imaginations, beyond anything we could ever envisioned. I know this because if these people were able to create that kind of technological advances, they must have had help from another possibly alien race. And we know, for an alien race to reach us, they need to be far ahead of where we even are now.

Another little thing I want to add, albeit a bit goofy, maybe they had the technology all along, (like somewhere down the line they advanced as we did now, but isolated) and these people were so advanced that they had discovered time-travel. With their ability to travel through time, perhaps they had gone back in time, and taught them how to create the technology that would lead to their advancements, and then an undetected natural disaster struck, wiping out these people, and therefore there future selves. Hahaha.

Thanks,

Dillon Wheeler

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Something New

Okay, I know I will not be able to finish one soon, and so probably not today, therefore I will just upload the document I've wanted to upload for a while, but it is a very long read, so I will upload it into its own page on the sidebar.

Thanks,

Dillon Wheeler

It's been a while.

Sorry for the delay in posts, I understand that has been over a week (approaching two weeks) since my last post. I've been very busy in the past weeks with school work (midterms and paper's due).The worst of it is over, but I still have some work ahead of me. I haven't forgotten about this blog though and I have wrote up some outlines for future blog posts. I have about seven posts I would like to upload, although they are not written in their, entirety. I am going to try my best to get one of them done today, and upload it, but if I am unable to finish it soon, then I will upload an interesting document I found on a forum. Mine or not, I am determined to keep new content flowing so updates will be coming very shortly!

[ A hint, maybe? :) ]

Keep your heads up and eyes open!

Thanks,

Dillon Wheeler