Possible Topic 1
Investigating Identity- people always says that they're who they are. "I'm just me." or "I am who I am". Why is this concept of self so important for people to have? and what makes you you? What makes you different from other and in what ways are you alike?
For people who are chameleons and can change aspects of themselves at will, who are they? Are they the personalities they choose to show others or something else? Like actors, some say they incorporate a character so well they become the character. What is the distinction between the character you play, and the character you are if the lines are so easily blurred?
edited* Possible project..Play different characters and note how it is to playing that role. What are your reactions? What are other people's reactions to you?
Possible Topic 2
Are we defined by our actions or our intentions? Because there seems to be two different things happening, whats happening in your head and what's happening in the real world. But they're both happening, so how exactly is that determined? What does it mean to be a good person?
edit* possible short story film- about two people find a unexpected note in the wallet and what they decide to do. The discription in the youtube box is pretty much what this topic is about. Its set in Hong Kong, but it has subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpLaUZeL6k&feature=channel_page
So those are the topics I'm interested in exploring. I'm interested to see what you guys want to talk about. See you tommorow.
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I think we could go a little deeper if we let go of the hope of finding a "true definition" of a person/self. Finding that one true definition of me (or you) that is at all times true, primary, essential seems like it ignores Buddha and our own experience which both suggest that the self/persons change, grow, fail, collapse, corrupt, overcome, die - in other words lack an unchanging essence.
ReplyDeleteSo perhaps more usefully we can ask - how do we represent ourSelves in our own mind/bodies? how do we represent others? in what circumstances (for instance) does intention matter most - in what circumstances do actions matter most? see what i'm saying? substitute the situational and the temporary for the universal and the eternal.
but i think most people want so badly to believe in an essence - of themselves - to have something little house built on rock and not on sand (as jesus said). to have an immortal and fundamentally unchanging soul/consciousness. although that is actually a pretty strange desire, if you think about it.
I think that the two topics that you want to explore aren't just somewhat related but directly correlated with each other. The difference between our actions and our intentions, I would say, is caused by our desire to preserve the identity that you try to display to others. But for your first topic, I agree that their is a constant strive to have an identity- to differentiate ourselves from everyone else, meanwhile act as chameleons and fit into society.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments, yeah I agree the topics are directly correlated, is it good we want to perserve our identities or bad? or does it depend? I feel like this is all depending on perspective and that we see it a certain way because we were taught to see it a certain way.
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