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are you your own person?

  • 11-03-2015 10:11pm
    #1
    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    No, I'm someone else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭✭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)



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


    me?

    no.

    or maybe.

    i dunno :(


  • 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


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


    What do you think OP?

    Then I'll tell you what I think!


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  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,479 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


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


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


    I sees myself in the mirror.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    Yes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,361 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭Corvo


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    I am just a boy held up by strings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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....................


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    ⇧ What they said ⇧


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭IamNotNumber


    No, I'm someone else.

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega




  • 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    We are all individuals!















    I'm not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,361 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Baby Jane wrote: »
    We are all individuals!















    I'm not.


    I am...







    Spartacus! :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Grays Sports Almanac


    Baaa


  • 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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


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




    ... just like everyone else.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


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




    ... just like everyone else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I'm me own bleedin' person!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭cork guitar player



    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,959 ✭✭✭_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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I'm a conformist.

    I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    I'm a white heterosexual cisgender male.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,108 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I am not a number I am a free man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭cork guitar player




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    I dislike minions.

    I am certain of my own identity.
    Unless they are Queen littlekittylou's minions! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I am Legion, for we are many


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    I'll have to check with herself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭Hoop66


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25 Fubrege


    *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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    biko wrote: »
    I am Legion, for we are many

    IJK-503672 - CRITICAL: THIS IS NOT A BORG DESIGNATION. STATE YOUR DESIGNATION. IBM AIX DOES NOT SHIP MICROSOFT PRODUCTS. IBM AIX DOES NOT SHIP MICROSOFT API OR SOURCE CODE MATERIAL. LOWER YOUR SHIELDS AND POWER DOWN ALL WEAPONS IMMEDIATELY!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,591 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,289 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


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

    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.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 8 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


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


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