Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00234)

Tom Robertson writes:
>On Fri, 10 Jan 97, John Straughn <JTarn@envirolink.org> wrote:
>
>>Tom Robertson writes:
>
>>>I hope you're not implying that I have been anything but perfectly
>>>consistent, as I am incapable of such human error.  Individual human
>>>beings, like all other forms, constantly change.  Only what cannot change
>>>is real.  I don't see how I am saying anything all that profound.  I don't
>>>even smoke, and I rarely sneeze, anyway.
>
>>Just to clear things up.  If your first sentence is not meant to be 
>>sarcastic, which I would think it was, 
>
>I would never be sarcastic.  Well, almost never, anyway.
>
>
>>is the *I* to which you are referring the "you" as 
>>the human individual or the unchangeable "real" you?
>
>I don't believe there is an unchangeable real me.  Individuality is a
>temporary illusion.  Whatever had a beginning must have an end.

Can you say for sure that you had a beginning?  And can you prove this?  Mind 
you I am not saying of the physical sense, but everything as one.  Can you 
prove that everything that makes up *you* had a beginning?

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The Triaist