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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: `We are conjoined twins and I can not tell who thrives most, the words or me!.!.!.I'm sure there's a split in there somewhere, but I don't wish to know where it isWww@QuestionHome@Com Definitely words build a false sense of oneself!. (If only because words are subjective with different meanings and associations) For me the problem with this question is I don't know what you mean by your use of the word 'self'!? Are you referring to personality!? Or our mental understanding of ourselves!? Or the timeless self that can exist after death when there is no mind, hence no words, or mental concepts or understandings of what 'we' are!?Www@QuestionHome@Com In one sense that is so true that the world will see a new me with every turn of a phrase of mispelling of a word, or change of an sentence structure, but that is merely the written me!. There is a me unto myself that I share with but a few and that me is too large to be housed in words!. That me is the person I see in my minds eye and in my heart of hearts!. That is the me that never changes accept to let others in !.Www@QuestionHome@Com Trying to establish ones own identity or trying to better the identity is all about the use of words!. But it is how you use them!. A great man once said: "Words are the building blocks of reason, self existence, misery, pain!.!.but in the end words are only words" I pondered that!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I build lots of selves with my writing!. But my writing does not define me!. My writings are individuals unto themselves that bang and shatter their way out of my head and onto the processor!.Www@QuestionHome@Com No!. Words only express who and where you are!. They do, however, change others perseption of who you are!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The first is true from a narcissistic perspective!. The second is true if you are easily manipulated!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes because we think good or bad before we say or write!.These good/bad thoughts translate into actions like speech,gestures or writing!.So with every word you say or write you do build up a new selfWww@QuestionHome@Com WORDS inspires me but i build my own words!.Www@QuestionHome@Com i am my words and my words r meWww@QuestionHome@Com neither, your actions build you!. words change way too much!.Www@QuestionHome@Com no I think I try to validate my old self and I can't pull it off!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |