Who are you?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #162995]

Comments

[allorin.livejournal.com]

I've grown a lot over the last year.

[andrewducker]

I've only known you 9 months!

[allorin.livejournal.com]

See, now, applying the same rules you told me before, polls apply to the individual. So, I read that as "I. Me. Stephen. Am the same person...."

Have you changed your own rules?

[andrewducker]

Oh, no, not at all.

I was just thinking - he's changed a lot in the last year and I've not even known him that long. I wonder what the old Stephen was like....

[allorin.livejournal.com]

An asshole.

I'm still an asshole, but far less of one.

[andrewducker]

Seems entirely reasonable to me.

I feel much the same way myself.

[diffrentcolours]

There is no "none of the above" option.

[andrewducker]

Don't click any of the buttons....

[diffrentcolours]

Then how do you differentiate between people who feel that they're not the same as any of your options, and people who didn't take the test?

[andrewducker]

I don't.

Ok, next time I put up one of the tests I'll stick that in.

I didn't consider that someone would feel they were a different person to yesterday.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Actually, I almost didn't say I'm the same as yesterday; yesterday I was about to drop out of uni, today I'm not. But, it's similar.

But a year ago I wasn't a full-time parent. That's definitely not the same.

[rainstorm.livejournal.com]

i feel i am different every day because i know seomthing else or i've experienced something new.

even days when i don't do anything new, i'm still different, somehow.

and it puts more change between who i am now and who i was a year ago (a fairly complete fuckwit) and three years ago (complete fuckwit)..

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

Arse, bugger, feck

*tries to remember the name of that boat that got replaced plank by plank......*

Or did you skip Personal Identity when you did your philosophy?

[stormie.livejournal.com]

Nope.

But it was more an essential difference rather than a slight incremental one.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I feel like my answer should be either "none of the above" or "20 years ago". I'm the same person I always am, but a lot of things about me - moods, feelings, opinions - change every day.

The appropriate quotes for the feeling seem to be:
"The more things change, the more they stay the same"
and
"Whereever I go, there I am"

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

I am never the same person two moments running.

I resemble a continuum of a flow of energy wrapped in a skin called "Leslie" with a history that seems to connect all these different snapshots.

No dynamic thing can ever be the same two moments running.

Nothing is.

Except when I forget.

A.

Hmmmm....

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

To the best of my recollection, I've always been the same person. I've learned lots of stuff in the past 20 years (hell, I've learned something about myself since yesterday!) and I hope I never stop learning. I've stored up 20 years of memories since I was 16. I've done things. I've not done things. I've acquired things. And people. I've lost things. And people. But I was me 20 years ago, and I'm me now, and I recognise no essential difference between the me of 20 years ago and the me of today.

[shannon_a]

I was ironically just muddling over this issue this morning (No doubt in part thanks to Kiln People by David Brin). I can somewhat recognize the person I was last year at GenCon, which is an easy reference point. The person I was 5 years ago, before meeting Kimberly, and 10 years ago, while finishing up college is almost unrecognizable.