The Bus Station Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 (edited) How do you all feel about being persons? This is Open Mic so this thread is not lame. Would you prefer to be a rock? Cheese? A squirrel? Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a non-human person, or a human lacking personhood? Please discuss. Edited May 25, 2014 by The Bus Station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perigrina Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Unfortunately the situation of being human while lacking personhood is all too common. This is how people justify killing unborn babies. While it is not possible to deny that they are human, many deny that the unborn are persons. They are not persons under the law and not given protection by the law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 I am a meat popsicle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AugustineA Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Quality of threads on PM is decreasing. :french: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perigrina Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Quality of threads on PM is decreasing. :french: It is the ontological lameness or nonlameness inherent in a topic that determines the subforum in which it should be placed. A subforum cannot confer nonlameness on an inherently lame topic. Once everyone understands that everything should be fine. Or we could discuss how our society denies personhood to the unborn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AugustineA Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 (edited) Let's drink hot chocolate and talk theology of the boday. http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp2tb6.htm The narrative in the first chapter says that this man was created in the image of God. In the second narrative he is manifested as a subject of the covenant, that is, a subject constituted as a person, constituted in the dimension of "partner of the Absolute." He must consciously discern and choose between good and evil, between life and death. The analysis of the Yahwist text also enables us to link man's original solitude with consciousness of the body. Through it, man is distinguished from all the animalia and is separated from them, and also through it he is a person. It can be affirmed with certainty that man, thus formed, has at the same time consciousness and awareness of the meaning of his own body, on the basis of the experience of original solitude. :saint2: Edited May 25, 2014 by AugustineA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Credo in Deum Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 How do you all feel about being persons? This is Open Mic so this thread is not lame. Would you prefer to be a rock? Cheese? A squirrel? Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a non-human person, or a human lacking personhood? Please discuss. Can I buy some pot from you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socrates Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I thought you were a bus station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidei Defensor Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I thought you were a bus station. Bus stations are people, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bus Station Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 FACT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seven77 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 People are persons too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 How are you sure we are even persons? Maybe this is all a dream? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 I am a meat popsicle. I am a beef smoothie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picchick Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 I often think about this. Actually I probably think about this a little too much. I think that it would be cool to be all the animals so that I can get inside their mind and figure out what they are thinking. I'd like to be a butterfly as well and fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perigrina Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 In Canada, women were recognized as persons in the 1920s. So, one hundred years ago, legally I would not have been a person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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