Trendy Buddhists have no God to kill, so they're killing rebirth.
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Replying to @SiddhiGal
@SiddhiGal rebirth doesn't have to be exclusively inter-life, it can also be intra-life, minute to minute.#continuity#Parfit1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @LapisAlienus
@vajramrita Continuity exactly; I trust there's a rebirth - not of substantial self, but of clinging (tendencies etc) which create the self
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Replying to @SiddhiGal
@vajramrita In this sense I think it's exactly a matter of continuity; continuity of actions, compulsions, tendencies..
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Replying to @SiddhiGal
@SiddhiGal I find these kinds of thought experiments very interesting to consider ... http://vajramrita.tumblr.com/post/32954212972/simple-teletransportation-and-the-branch-line …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @LapisAlienus
@SiddhiGal I don't have to be "me" to have continuity of "me". So I am reborn in all those who ever knew me when I die.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @LapisAlienus
@vajramrita Good read! I think an evident desire to have a self/soul is present in reincarnation-belief, b/c of fear of death obviously..
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Replying to @SiddhiGal
@vajramrita I just feel there's no such self travelling through life and that such perception is 2-dimensional..
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Replying to @SiddhiGal
@vajramrita If there's something that is 'reborn', it's (roughly put) a draft, intention, which can't be described as a "me"
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Replying to @SiddhiGal
@vajramrita I do admit I find all this new "against reincarnation" hype exorbitant, if not arrogant when asserted with certainty.
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@vajramrita It's like a desperate attempt to create a new meaning because no insight occurred with the old one. So, let's blame old doctrine
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