are you your own person?

Robsweezie

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?

Sheep Lover

No, I'm someone else.

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.

C.K Dexter Haven

me?

no.

or maybe.

i dunno

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

catallus

What do you think OP?

Then I'll tell you what I think!

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.

kneemos

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

Kevin McCloud

I sees myself in the mirror.

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.

Zippie84

Yes.

One eyed Jack

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

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

Corvo

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

Greenmachine

I am just a boy held up by strings.

Rhys Essien

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

Karl Stein

⇧ What they said ⇧

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?

Vincent Vega

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

Robsweezie

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.

Baby Jane

We are all individuals!















I'm not.

One eyed Jack

Baby Jane wrote: »

We are all individuals!















I'm not.

I am...







Spartacus!

Grays Sports Almanac

Baaa

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

lazybones32

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




... just like everyone else.

lazybones32

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




... just like everyone else.

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.

Teyla Emmagan

I'm me own bleedin' person!

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.

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

_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.

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.

Baby Jane

Some people who think they're their own person aren't though.
Conforming can include conforming to what's considered being non "sheeple" etc.

I am my own person in a number of ways - wouldn't be arsed with a lot of what's the done thing, or care a whole lot about what people think of me (not that I'm unusual or anything - I'm like loads of people)... but to a point. There are obviously times when we're part of a bigger picture. We don't always march to the beat of our own drum.
E.g. sometimes if a person disagrees with aggressive tactics used by some water charge protesters, they're deemed a member of the obedient flock. Whereas I'm opposed to a lot of aspects of the water charges but I'm also opposed to said aggressive protesting tactics.
Or if people don't run Enda Kenny into the ground, they're obviously a FG voter, a government minion etc etc. I genuinely think Enda seems like a fairly reasonable guy - and I've never voted FG. To me it's more sheep-like to depict Enda is some sort of tyrant.

The Backwards Man

I'm a conformist.

I think.

Macavity.

I'm a white heterosexual cisgender male.

Agent Coulson

I am not a number I am a free man.

cork guitar player

Littlekittylou

*rolls eyes* Why do you ask Robsweezie?

Yes I am an independent thinker. I am not easily led. I don't see a crowd I see individual people with individual feelings. I resent people trying to pull my opinion one way or the other.

I am just me.

I am littlekittylou. No one else is.

It's not so much that littlekittylou thinks like no one else, no one else thinks like little kittylou.

I distrust and dislike intensely people who try and sway opinion.

I dislike minions.

I am certain of my own identity.

Littlekittylou

Littlekittylou wrote: »

I dislike minions.

I am certain of my own identity.

Unless they are Queen littlekittylou's minions!

brummytom

I'm my own person. I'm a cunt.

Vincent Vega

cork guitar player wrote: »

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

You're very welcome
Always happy to see his ideas resonate with someone else.

The Divided Self is one of my favourite books.

biko

I am Legion, for we are many

Dravokivich

I'll have to check with herself.

Hoop66

I'll follow the crowd if they're doing something cool like smoking or jumping in a lake.

Fubrege

Littlekittylou wrote: »

*rolls eyes* Why do you ask Robsweezie?

Yes I am an independent thinker. I am not easily led. I don't see a crowd I see individual people with individual feelings. I resent people trying to pull my opinion one way or the other.

I am just me.

I am littlekittylou. No one else is.

It's not so much that littlekittylou thinks like no one else, no one else thinks like little kittylou.

I distrust and dislike intensely people who try and sway opinion.

I dislike minions.

I am certain of my own identity.

What is your identity, And what makes someone certain of it?

Nucular Arms

I am the all singing all dancing crap of the world.

I am not special. I am not a beautiful or unique snowflake.

I am the same decaying organic matter as the rest of us.

I am Jack's Medula Oblongata.

jimgoose

biko wrote: »

I am Legion, for we are many

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murpho999

I just asked my wife about this and she said I was, so there you go.

Mesrine65

Sleepy

Nope, gave that right away the day I got married!

I'd say I'm fairly typical of the married Irish man: I think for myself but usually go with the flow for the sake of a quiet life.

Fundrous

I used not to be but I am getting there now! There is still a people-pleaser in me, especially when it comes to authority figures, but I think I am getting better at doing what I want to do rather than doing what others think I should do.

Mint Aero

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You