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To: bruwin who wrote (3123)	7/11/2008 9:46:33 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 26251

It is important to take into consideration, the "I am" or "I exist". For example: Before I got married, I went out with a very religious Syrian woman right off Ocean Parkway, in Brooklyn, on Ave T. She was Modern Orthodox (Jewish). Up to that point in my life, she was the most gorgeous woman I had ever seen. She was very free spirited and extremely liberal, socially speaking. She was quite a dancer and bright too, but had never been trained to use her raw brain power. On our first date she confessed: She told me that when she was younger, she was raped by one of the most highly respected persons "in the community" and nobody (including her family) believed her when she told them. (This took place over 35 years ago before DNA testing.) So, she turned to God, who was the only one to believe her. According to her, without God, she would not have been able to get through this crisis so she owed everything to God. I never judged her. I just listened. I lived my life and she lived hers. Of course, the relationship ended up not working out because of the difference in values and principles between us. But there was nothing wrong in the way she lived her life. I just couldn't live with it. But she was a very good person. I made sure she had a solid career before I left her. I found happiness with someone else who I could live with. She never did. "Who am I"? will always remain a question without a valid universal answer. "Existence precedes essence" (Sartre). "Who am I"? sums up the previous 3 questions on the thread header: "What can I know? What ought I do? What may I hope? Everything I do in life tries to shed light on these questions.