Posted by cricket on August 18, 2005, at 8:52:20
In reply to I, posted by Dinah on August 17, 2005, at 22:35:55
> And I started to feel odd, like there was no *I* at all. That all there was was this moment, and who I was right now. But that that *I* wasn't permanent at all. And that that *I* had no relation to the *I* of yesterday or the *I* of tomorrow. And if that was true, there was no *I* at all. Just a series of moments.
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Yup, that's why many people think of an "I" as something without an inherent existence. But there is a continuum, no? The I of yesterday, tasted Jif and liked it, so it set up a pattern to eat Jif again today. If there was no precedent, no causal factors, no dependence, every incident, every facet of a being would be created out of nothing and that doesn't really make sense. Then there would really be no connection between the I of yesterday and the I of today.Then as we continually interact with the world, new causes and conditions are created. So we do change and evolve and we're not the same but patterns carry over.
Does any of that make sense?
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