"I AM"

I am not.

I think it was Popeye that said it first.

Nope. The popman was not around in the 13th century BCE, approximately when this was first said

True, the English language is a comparatively recent thing.

Rene Descartes was French, though cogito ergo sum is Latin.

And I'm guessing that some ancient hominid, thought the thought and uttered a relevant sound, long ago.

And for sure, someone probably did the same approximately 3300 years ago.

though cogito ergo sum is Latin.

About 60% of English is rooted in Latin.

Why is English so different from Latin?

It's different because it's not actually based on Latin. English is a Germanic language. It's about as different from German, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch as you'd expect, given that they have been subject to very different influences during a seriously long time.

I am Sam, I am.

What is your following like as I am?

If this is what I think it is, you should have put it in the Religion forum.

If this is what I think it is, you should have put it in the Religion forum.

But it sounds like he wants to make a philosophical point about Exodus 3, so it works in either forum.

@fauxlaw

I Am.

'Does have a certain power to it I'd think.

By it's simplicity, yet largeness.

Bit like koans Zen Buddhism.

But without clear detailed explanation, can be a bit frustrating at times I think.

@Shoresy

Sometimes I like to imagine alternate games, just based on the covers of games, rather than what the games actually are.

Right now I'm imagining a 2d sidescroller where you control a small party,

You can switch units positions, based on whether you need a Tank or DPS, activate various unit's abilities such as healing,

Enemy will even attack from behind sometimes.

It's a maze like game of dungeon crawling, there exist levels where projectiles drop from the ceiling and must be dodged,

Perhaps in such a time you move the thief to the front, and it gives you higher mobility.

I do know what the Ultima series looks like 'really as a game.

Looks a fun one, interesting lore.

I vaguely remember hero pursuing ideals and virtues.

Jesus, in response to the Pharisees’ question “Who do you think you are?” said, “‘Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.’ ‘You are not yet fifty years old,’ the Jews said to him, ‘and you have seen Abraham!’ ‘I tell you the truth,’ Jesus answered, ‘before Abraham was born, I am!’ At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds” (John 8:56–59). The violent response of the Jews to Jesus’ “I AM” statement indicates they clearly understood what He was declaring—that He was the eternal God incarnate. Jesus was equating Himself with the "I AM" title God gave Himself in Exodus 3:14.

@NobodyInParticular

If a plan for something exists,

Does it already exist in a sense?

Suppose you design a house yet built,

You have a son,

Then build the house,

You tell the son, this house existed even before you were born.

From a certain point of view, I suppose, it 'did exist before one's son.

I can never tell what writers and translated text mean/meant though.

But it sounds like he wants to make a philosophical point about Exodus 3, so it works in either forum.

Something tells me that it's going to be a mormon interpretation which has nothing to do with philosophy. But let's see what the senior poster has to say.

Yes, it is powerful. 100%

For sure language evolved, and will continue to do so.

Neologisms are frequent.

Adam also came before Abraham. Was Jesus equating himself with Adam?

I think about my occupied space finger, via my occupied space nervous system, ergo, I exist as creature with access to meta-space mind/intellect/concepts.

I appear to be a W chromosome based female creature periodically popping out exact W clones of myself, tho perhaps Im an infertile ZZ clone of my self. Only time will tell i.e. If I pop out more clones of me then Im a W female.

.." In 2006, something astonishing happened: A monitor lizard (aka a Komodo dragon) gave birth to four pups at London Zoo. Even more extraordinary is that another dragon was expecting to give birth to eight additional babies that year.

...Both mothers were held in captivity, and both mothers reproduced asexually. Until this point, Komodo dragons had never been known to reproduce without male participation.

...After conducting tests on the young males, it was confirmed that the babies were not an exact genetic match with the mother. Instead, the mother’s DNA was doubled to create the young and showed no presence of male DNA.'...

https://listverse.com/2016/03/21/10-amazing-animals-that-clone-themselves/

Wonder if Virgin Mary underwent the same experience?

Eve did.

Mary's experience was somewhat more rough and ready, in the stable...Joe was sent off on the donkey on an errand when Mary saw Godfrey coming down the road on his Camel.

Hey Debby, so two dudes are parked up outside your gaff vying for your attention, are you going to pick the one in the Kia Picanto or the one in the Ferarri 599 GTO.

Hey! And Adam came before Abraham...Dirty old perverts...LOL

And how many thousands of years of age does that make Adam?

Parthenogenesis is not unusual in reptiles and other species...But not Middle Eastern Virgins.

So reasonably astonishing, but not miraculous.

The ultimate conclusions of this hermeneutical and mathematical analysis—as analyzed hereinbelow—shows the Bible- revealed absolute timeframe from the time when Christ created Adam, to the birth of Abraham, is between 1,948 to 1,984 years, i.e., almost but not quite 2,000 solar years.

Hmmmm.

So in your book, who is GOD and who is Christ.

For as I see it, Christ was a nickname given to a bloke born approximately 2025 years ago, who lived for about 33 years. I think that it was this blokes dad who supposedly made Adam...Though by your hermeneutical and mathematical reckoning that would make his dad about 4000 years old.

All very outlandish, these hermeneutics and dodgy maths.

It does not say how old God/ Adam’s creator was. It tells us how old Adam was compared to Abraham.

I still don't know to approach Descartes. His dualism basically ended Medieval Europe scholasticism and it's traditions and in many areas like biology hindered us, but you don't get societies that can produce Newton, Euler, and then industrialism without him separating our senses. He made us inhuman but at a cost of actually allowing us to experience a greater sensory flow in the end.

Top of the morning Doc.

I'm not sure that Descartes was/is that important.

Well perhaps maybe for beardy pseudo-academics who failed at sciences and stick ism on a lot of things in a vain attempt to look clever.

Begorrah. You Anglo Saxon denier you.

Descartes is worth exploring.

You absolutely do not understand the full picture and what it took for the West to advance if you think descartes was not that important. Not only was he absolutely capable in the sciences (making cartesian coordinates), but his philosophy fundamentally created the worldview that Western science populated. The cognitive leaps made by Galileo, Newton, that dont have immediate real-world application is thanks to shifting a worldview to the cartesian view. Him and Kepler made the fundamental changes to move us out of the renaissance and into the modern world.