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are you your own person?

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  • 11-03-2015 11:11pm
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    Robsweezie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭


    are you what they call an "individual"?? do you see the importance in standing on your own two feet and knowing your own mind, or do you find yourself
    easily led and follow the crowd?
    Can you honestly say you are your own, independent person?


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    #2
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    No, I'm someone else.


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    #3
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,424 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I'm a bunch of people, in fact my username is THAAARG! No seriously, a bit of both sometimes, I have my weaknesses but I'm fairly sure of my own identity.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #4
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    me?

    no.

    or maybe.

    i dunno :(


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    #5
    JacquesDeLad
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 969 ✭✭✭JacquesDeLad


    'Individual' is a label in itself that people try to conform to.

    It's very popular these days. All these rebelious types raging against the machine.

    Try hards :p


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    #6
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    What do you think OP?

    Then I'll tell you what I think!


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    jungleman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 803 ✭✭✭jungleman


    I'm a conjoined twin. The smaller one, I kind of hang off the main torso. Can't even stand on my own one foot.


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    #8
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I am what I tell my brain to think I am.


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    #9
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    I sees myself in the mirror.


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    #10
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    I am my own boss when Ted is in command of the voices in my head

    When it is Ned or Timmy, all hell can break loose.


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    #11
    Zippie84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    Yes.


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    #12
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Been called a lot of things in my time, can't remember 'individual' being one of 'em :p

    Yeah, 'independent' would cover it alright, not to be confused with 'stubborn bastard'! :pac:


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    #13
    Corvo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭Corvo


    We are all influenced by others / the outside world eventually.


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    #14
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    I am just a boy held up by strings.


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    #15
    Rhys Essien
    Registered Users Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    I need to be myself.I can't be no one else.Im feeling supersonic.Give me gin and tonic....................


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    #16
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    ⇧ What they said ⇧


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    #17
    IamNotNumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭IamNotNumber


    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    No, I'm someone else.

    Are you Father Jessup?
    Would ya like a cup of tea or would you rather die of thirst?


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    #18
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdWUTfNwKFw


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    Can you honestly say you are your own, independent person?

    I think so - I can certainly see no one around me I am copying or emulating or following. Despite the several Charlie Sheen jokes I get.


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    #20
    Baby Jane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    We are all individuals!















    I'm not.


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    #21
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Baby Jane wrote: »
    We are all individuals!















    I'm not.


    I am...







    Spartacus! :p


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    #22
    Grays Sports Almanac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Grays Sports Almanac


    Baaa


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    #23
    SoftMicro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭SoftMicro


    i am a son
    i am a brother
    i am an uncle
    i am a boyfriend
    i am a friend
    i am a citizen
    i am a student
    i am an employee
    i am after forgetting what the OP wrote while typing this


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    #24
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    I am unique, one-of-a-kind ...




    ... just like everyone else.


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    #25
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    I am unique, one-of-a-kind ...




    ... just like everyone else.


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    #26
    coolbeans
    Registered Users Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    I'm my own person alright. I think outside the box and rest assured that only God can judge me. I'm so sure of the latter point in fact that I've got it tattooed on me forearm just so everyone knows what an individual blue skies thinker I really am.


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    #27
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I'm me own bleedin' person!


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    #28
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Absolutely.

    I always made my own way in life.

    Never put out the begging bowl to anyone.

    Everything I have is got the right way & I'm under compliment to nobody.

    Therefore, nobody can tell me what to do.

    And nobody can tell me how I can think.

    It feels good.


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    cork guitar player
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭cork guitar player


    Vincent Vega wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdWUTfNwKFw

    Vincent, many thanks for bringing R.D. Laing to my attention.

    I've heard and seen him before but never got his name, I heard snippets but never copped who/what he was.

    Im on my second hour of you tube footage from him now and all I can say is thanks.

    CGP


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    #30
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users Posts: 7,955 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    I find that generally people who "follow the crowd" don't have the self awareness or depth of thought to know that they are in fact sheeple so asking them about it is a bit pointless. They tend to think they're passionate individuals who just happen to self actualise by spouting the dictates of the hive mind of whatever group they aspire to and living by it's mores. The fact that their viewpoint is "cool" amoung their friends and social milieu is just proof of how it's right as far as they're concerned.


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    #31
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    I honestly don't know. I'm reliant on other people, but I do what I feel I need to do. I ask for advice, but I decide. I've spent a long time trying to figure out who I am, but I never seem to arrive at a final answer. I don't know if I can exist separate to other people, and I don't know if I'd want to. But I don't need someone to tell me who to be, or if they even could.


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