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[Anonymous No.1137791]

You are a product of your surroundings.
You can't stop "being yourself".
Whatever you do, you are always yourself.

[Anonymous No.1137796]

what am i, a product of my surroundings? or myself?

the two are mutually exclusive

[DeepandEdgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1137804]

>Whatever you do, you are always yourself
of course, but that's not what people mean when they use the expression that they're "not themselves"

[Anonymous No.1137808]

>>1137804
people mean that they're other than what they would like to think of themselves.

[Anonymous No.1137811]

>>1137796
Every choice you make was taken based on your life experience, your genetics, and those of the people around you.
Yes, I believe in "destiny". I believe everything has already been predetermined.
>>1137804
They don't know the true meaning of what they are saying.
What they mean to say is "you aren't acting like you used to act", which is obvious. People have experiences and learn from then, changing the way they act in turn. If they didn't, nothing would ever advance.

[Anonymous No.1137824]

>>1137811
>"you aren't acting like you used to act"

i don't think that what is meant. i think it's more about acting out the image we have of ourselves. when our flesh reflects our egos it is ourselves. when it doesn't we assume it's something else. shame on us.

[Anonymous No.1137828]

>>1137811

[DeepandEdgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1137840]

>>1137811
>What they mean to say is "you aren't acting like you used to act", which is obvious.
Sure bro but our the current state of our language isn't a shining example of linguistic clarity, and there isn't really a problem here because no-one gets confused when they say to someone that they're not themselves, I know exactly what they mean despite the apparent contradiction in what they've said. There is no problem, and no clarification needed.

So OP for your next trick are you going to pull a rabbit you've put in a hat out for us and tell us that metaphors are literally nonsense as well?

[Anonymous No.1137863]

you are wrong, op.

the truth is precisely the opposite. we are never ourselves.

whatever we do, we only know it reflectively as having been done, and we exist reflexively as our bodies continually becoming.

I am my body, I am perpetually becoming my 'self'

[Anonymous No.1137887]

>>1137863
>semantics

wow bro i wish i was like u

[DeepandEdgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1137894]

lol@ deleted post

[Anonymous No.1137903]

>>1137894
what did it say?

[op No.1137909]

>>1137863

fuck off

[TyBrax !WvWWh.l.CE No.1137914]

>>1137909
u mad

[Anonymous No.1137916]

>>1137903
is said:

">>1137863
>semantics

wow bro i wish i like u"

i wrote it. i'm trying to be less rude. so when i get impulsive and write something nasty i'll delete it lately. feels good.

[TyBrax !WvWWh.l.CE No.1137920]

>>1137916

[Anonymous No.1137922]

>>1137916
it said*

[Anonymous No.1137927]

>>1137916
kk

[Anonymous No.1137930]

[Anonymous No.1138227]

>>1137916

wat