Friday, October 23, 2026

What makes you "you"? Are you the same person you were 10 years ago, or just a collection of changing memories and physical cells?

Everyone is likely going to have a different answer for this question depending upon their life experiences.

My answers I have found might be mostly unique to me.

Which is one reason why I recommend writing down what you think is going on regarding you.

Where did you come from?

Where are you going?

Where have you been as a soul?

Do you even believe in a Soul?

Unless you ask these questions you likely will not be able to answer any of these questions.

However, one way I help this is I say to myself: "God will always show me what to do".

So, because I say this to myself "God always shows me what to do next"

In a sense we all only exist because we think we do.

If you don't believe you exist then you don't.

If you don't believe you can walk then you can't.

If you don't believe you can think then you can't.

If you don't believe you can lift your hands above your head you can't.

So, why do you exist at all?

Unless we can answer these questions or at least attempt to maybe we don't exist at all?

Yes. Asking questions can be scary.

But, if you don't at least ask these questions how can you expect to live and be happy at all?

So, in a sense you have to be brave enough to stay alive for one more second and brave enough to ask these questions really to live at all and to be free.

By God's Grace 

Survival on earth is based upon how good you are at formulating useful questions for your survival

For example, in my own life I was at odds with myself. I was always very intelligent but I had been trained (like many people) to be fighting myself in many ways.

This was going to result in me likely self destructing by age 25 I realized at the time.

So, after I became a computer programmer and a computer operator I knew something was wrong with my life because I had never studied PHilosophy or psychology and once I realized I wasn't asking the right questions to stay alive I was able to start changing my life to one I could stand to be living.

If you don't want to be alive (for whatever the reason) you might not be alive today, tomorrow or any day.

So, your life has to be desirable enough to want to go on living.

When I started questioning everything in my life I was able to build a life I actually wanted to be alive for.

But, before I asked all the right questions I wasn't going to be alive even to age 25.

What makes you happy? where do you want to go? Who do you want to meet?

Where is God?

Does God exist?

Do you want to be alive if God doesn't exist? My answer to this one I found was "NO!"

Experiencing God throughout all time and space gives me personally more peace than anything else.

I also experience God inside of my own body too but also in all beings everywhere as well.

So, until you start asking useful questions that actually make you want to be alive ongoing you might not be here very long here on earth.

by God's Grace 

Staying alive in a human physical body is based upon asking Philosophical Questions

I have found that if people don't ask these types of philosophical questions often they don't live very long.
 
Also, all Sciences came from people asking these philosophical questions. Without asking questions like this there would be no airplanes, no trains, no passenger jets, no spaceships no diesel Farm Tractors and we would still be hunter gatherers without farms.
 
So, until you start asking philosophical questions about life often you aren't around very long.
 
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Here is a collection of some of the most profound and enduring philosophical questions, categorized by the branches of philosophy they explore.
🧠 Mind, Consciousness & Identity
  • What is consciousness? Can a purely physical brain experience subjective feelings?
  • What makes you "you"? Are you the same person you were 10 years ago, or just a collection of changing memories and physical cells?
  • Can a machine truly think? Will artificial intelligence ever possess a soul or genuine understanding?
  • What happens after death? Does consciousness continue, or is it absolute non-existence?
🌌 Reality & Existence (Metaphysics)
  • Why is there something rather than nothing? What caused the universe to exist in the first place?
  • Is reality an illusion? How do we know we aren't living in a highly advanced simulation?
  • Does time actually flow? Or are the past, present, and future all equally real and fixed?
  • Do we have free will? Or is every choice you make already determined by physics and your past experiences?
⚖️ Morality, Right & Wrong (Ethics)
  • Is morality objective? Are some actions universally wrong, or is right and wrong just a human social construct?
  • Do the ends justify the means? Is it acceptable to do a bad deed if it results in a greater good?
  • What is justice? Is it about punishing the wrongdoer, or healing and restoring the victim?
  • What are our obligations to others? Do wealthy nations have a moral duty to feed the starving across the globe?
📚 Knowledge & Truth (Epistemology)
  • What can we know for certain? If our senses can deceive us, is there anything we can be 100% sure of?
  • What is truth? Is something true because it matches reality, or because it fits neatly into our existing beliefs?
  • Where does knowledge come from? Are we born with inherent truths, or is our mind a blank slate shaped entirely by experience?
🎨 Meaning & Aesthetics
  • What is the meaning of life? Is there a grand purpose to discover, or must we invent our own meaning?
  • What is beauty? Is it entirely subjective ("in the eye of the beholder"), or are there objective standards for what is beautiful?
  • What makes a life "good"? Is a good life measured by happiness, achievement, virtue, or legacy?

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A list of places my father lived before his father bought 2 1/2 acres with a house and fruit trees and Raspberries in Seattle

My father was born in 1916 in Morenci, Arizona where a big copper mine still is that I visited with him and my mother around 1956 on our way back to the Los Angeles County area from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Then I also know he lived in Breckenridge, Texas and that my grandmother was from Texas too.

Then I also know they lived in Coos Bay, Oregon as well.

My grandfather was an Electrical Contractor so did electrical Contracts all over the Western United States from Texas to Arizona to Oregon to Washington in the Seattle Area by 1927 when he bought his 2 1/2 acres there and kept it until he passed away. My grandfather also had a gold mining claim in Elk City, Idaho of around 1200 Acres too until he passed away in 1970 from driving his panel truck off a cliff into a river when his wheel bearing froze up on a dirt road. He was born in the late 1870s or early 1880s in Kansas and was a pitcher on a baseball team there when he was young likely in the first decade of the 20th century.

My father was Valedictorian of his high school Class in 1934 in Seattle, Washington area.

My Great Grandfather lived in Kansas on a farm there and was born in the 1840s and was a Captain in the Civil war for the Northern Army (the Bluecoats). 

Tenzing Norgay was born two years before my father was so 1914 in Tibet

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Tenzing Norgay | Movie, Edmund Hillary, Everest, Biography ...
Tenzing Norgay was born on May 15, 1914 (or May 29, 1914, according to some official accounts).
  • Birth Date: May 15, 1914 (often celebrated or cited as May 29, 1914)
  • Birthplace: Tshechu, Tibet or the Khumbu region of Nepal
  • Original Name: Namgyal Wangdi
  • Death Date: May 9, 1986
More details about his life and history can be found on Britannica.
Would you like to know more about his historic 1953 Mount Everest climb with Sir Edmund Hillary?
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    Tenzing Norgay | Movie, Edmund Hillary, Everest, Biography, & Facts
    News. ... Tenzing Norgay (born May 15, 1914?, Khumbu region, Nepal? —died May 9, 1986, Darjeeling [now Darjiling], West Bengal, In...