{"id":270,"date":"2008-02-14T23:23:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/2008\/02\/14\/AnotherPostOnTheFactThatIAmNotMeLoL.aspx"},"modified":"2008-02-14T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:23:18","slug":"another-post-on-the-fact-that-i-am-not-me-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Another post on the fact that I am not me&#8230; LoL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">When discussing the concept of &#8220;me&#8221; I posit the idea of &#8220;becoming&#8221; rather than &#8220;being&#8221; (future tense as compared to present tense).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/SPAN>I mean, is it really possible to live in the &#8220;now&#8221;, for time flows like a river; there is never really a &#8220;now&#8221; because &#8220;now&#8221; is &#8220;then&#8221;, and if it is not possible to live in the &#8220;now&#8221;, and &#8220;me-ness&#8221; is defined as who I am right now, then is there any real concept of me?..<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O \/><O:P><\/O:P><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\"><O:P><\/O:P><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Anyway I try to define &#8220;me&#8221;, it seems that the me of now (which is now 1 second ago) is different than the &#8220;me&#8221; of 1 second from now, which is now now, which is actually now 1 second ago.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/SPAN>I don&#8217;t really know how that ties it my &#8220;me-ness&#8221;, it would seem that someone might say that I am never me; and I like to joke with everyone I meet, by shaking their hand and saying &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m becoming Jedi&#8221;, it drives a few batty (especially my wife who has to look around embarrassed and pretend she doesn&#8217;t know &#8220;me&#8221; [and of course she doesn&#8217;t because there really is no concept of me]) &#8211; and with a few others it starts up some really interesting conversations! \ud83d\ude42<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When discussing the concept of &#8220;me&#8221; I posit the idea of &#8220;becoming&#8221; rather than &#8220;being&#8221; (future tense as compared to present tense). I mean, is it really possible to live in the &#8220;now&#8221;, for time flows like a river; there is never really a &#8220;now&#8221; because &#8220;now&#8221; is &#8220;then&#8221;, and if it is not possible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another post on the fact that I am not me&#8230; LoL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}