JamesBE

I don’t think that I could ever claim to have ever said or written anything that could ever come near being ‘profound.’ I don’t think the word ‘profound,’ as a verb, as an action exists anymore. Surely every original though, every emotion has been thought, felt, by someone else. It is a strange thought indeed that life is simply going through a motion. We are all individual; our fingerprints, the very structure of our being, determines that this is so. But what is ‘individual.’ Is it unique? I know people who are unique. Who can never be replaced by anyone? This seems obvious, surely.

Theoretically, everybody is ‘unique,’ cannot be replaced: do you believe this when you walk down the street, see identical people, identical clothes, voices, opinions, minds. Is unique something more than genetics, an arrangement of chemicals? I think so. In the end, ‘unique’ is exclusive to the person that you are unique to, a group of people even. You can be ‘unique’ unto yourself.

Scratches

James,

This is too profoundly confusing to be profound. I think I can sense what you're looking to say but the way you've phrased it doesn't really make sense. Like this: "In the end, ‘unique’ is exclusive to the person that you are unique to, a group of people even."

If you can explain this in clear terms, then maybe the clear terms are what you should be using in the first place.

In other words: "Huh?" Here's hoping I'm not just stupid.

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JamesBE

I believe that at the time that I wrote this, I was intoxicated in some way. Therefore, it is not necessarily the exact words, but the feelings that they evoked, in writing them, at the time. Does that make sense?

Ilan Bouchard

Makes sense. I agree with the above comment, however. But I keep in mind that it's only general rambling. Rambling usually doesn't make much sense, that's why it's so entertaining.

Also, "profound" isn't a verb.

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evadri

Adjective? Please tell me it's an adjective! Am I right? Please, I want to be right!

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JamesBE

What about 'to be profound'? The action of 'being profound.'

Ilan Bouchard

Nope. The verb there is "to be". "Profound," if I'm correct, is an abstract noun, like "happy".

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Scratches

Profound is not a noun! You can't say, "I was in awe of the profound of it all."

Sorry. I would have picked at the verb thing, too, but I was just a teeny bit scared that maybe it was in some weird, archaic manner.

Adjective. Yes. I'm sticking with adjective.

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JamesBE

Yes, but an abstract noun; you might be able to get away with that.

rashadow

I understand what you were saying perfectly. I think that someone being unique is strictly in the eye of the beholder. We all eat sleep and shit. And we all have the raw potential to do what someone else has accomplished.

Also, have you ever noticed that people fit "molds"? Like have you ever met someone that looks exactly like someone else, almost to the point of it being creepy? I have, and everyday it happens(I know a lot of people). Or have you spoken to someone whose speech and thought patterns are almost identical to someone elses?

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Scratches

Completely know what you mean, rashadow. I often meet people who don't always look alike but their mannerisms and speech patterns are so similar I could swear they're just repackaged forms of the same product. Which worries me, because who wants to be a copy of any sort?

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Ilan Bouchard

That's culture, I suppose.

Speaking of which, something that really bugs me is all the kids who are trying to be different, but end up all being the same. They're all still wearing designer clothes, what's wrong with these people? Humph.

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JamesBE

Exactly.