I was sitting here, eating a delicious roastbeef sandiwch, when a seemingly harmless parable merrily skipped it's way into my head. You are what you eat. I looked at myself, and thought "there are worse fates than a roastbeef sandwich," smiled, and returned to my sandwich.
But when my mind has nothing to do, it tends to stray from my leash, and wander around. Sometimes it's spare memories, sometimes plans for the rest of the day. For some reason, a stray particle of thought reversed my lightfooted saying. It now read, You eat what you are.
I paused from my scrumptious sandwich as I read it over and over in my head. If I am what I eat, and I eat what I am.... then what am I? what am I?
I'm not sure I can answer. I'm not my finger. ( I think) And I'm not my brain, because when I sleep I am still me. (aren't I?) and when I die, I doubt that I suddenly cease to exist (right?)
If you eat what you are, then what are you?
What am I?
What Are You?
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What Are You?
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
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You're an aggregation of all your experiences and thoughts. You're a sub-microscopic random speck in the unimaginable vastness of the external universe. You're the centre of the subjectively equally as vast internal universe that expands outward from your head. You're the only thing that there is. You're everything. You're nothing. You're a unique individual. You're just like everybody else. You're the title role. You're the walk-on extra without any lines. You're you. It all depends on where you're looking from.
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Or doesn't grok. Depending.Fist and Faith wrote:Thou art God. That which groks.
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Hmmm... If we go by Balon's logic and I am what I ate and what I ate is what I am then I am an extremely rare filet mignon, lumpy russett garlic mashed potatos with mushroom gravy and broccoli.
I could be worse....
I could be worse....
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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Yeah, you could be scrambled eggs and waaaay too many kolaches, like me. 
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I'm a cup of coffee and a yogurt.
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That would make you a metrosexual in SF, Cail
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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Cameraman Jenn wrote:That would make you a metrosexual in SF, Cail
totally!!! i'm a V-8 and a hard-boiled egg.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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So Malik is an egg mcmuffin? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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Silly rabbit! You don't eat beer!Malik23 wrote:I am homebrewed beer: an intentional self-awareness rearrangement conducted through the symphony of art, zymurgy, and agriculture. I'm intentionally an altered state through the magic of earth bounty and mental acuity. Earth and sky and the consciousness between them.
I am a Snickers bar. Sugary sweet, that's me!
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
Hmmmmm....What if I dump the yogurt in my coffee, then tear the head off a pigeon?Cameraman Jenn wrote:That would make you a metrosexual in SF, Cail
Nevermind, that'd just make me sociopathic.
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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That would be too wimpy Ozzy and make you more metro. 
Butch metro. which means blue bandana left pocket. Giver not a taker. :DI'm a filet mignon sandwich. I sliced the half I didn't eat and ate it on dark rye with mayo and romaine hearts.
Butch metro. which means blue bandana left pocket. Giver not a taker. :DI'm a filet mignon sandwich. I sliced the half I didn't eat and ate it on dark rye with mayo and romaine hearts. Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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I had a pulled pork sammich for lunch, but that doesn't sound like it's helping my case any.
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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The Close meets the Galley! 
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I like Coleslaw!!..A couple of pounds a week I eat of that stuff..I acquired a taste for cabbage, not the boiled tho,,when stationed in Korea. Raw shredded cabbage witha lite dressing,,good Stuff! So Im a cabbage head. Now in Aridzonee, a cabbage head would be someone from the Emerald Isle and i aint', but i do enjoy a pint of Guiness every now and then. They don't grow any cabbage in the desert here. Thats over in El Centro and north. They do grow oranges tho here in phoenix..hhhmm..irish and citrus both orange heads...well okay,, maybe I am a cabbage head.
If she withdrew from exaltation, she would be forced to think- And every thought led to fear and contradictions; to dilemmas for which she was unprepared.
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