I've been suicidal in the past and honestly I think of the self preservation instinct to be irrational
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it's something imposed on you by evolution like the sex drive - Jung called both part of eros
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EY waxes poetic abt Eastern philosophy but he refuses to accept its biggest tenet
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which is that continuity of consciousness and identity isn't real and doesn't matter
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the person you were 10 years ago is already dead, all change is slow death, death is just sudden change
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Think abt it - what Dumbledore wants is to cease existing as the person he is now
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Right, and this also gets into my current obsession with Star Wars metaphysics
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Yoda, Qui Gon, and Obi Wan know for a fact that they will merge with the living force on death
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But they choose to remain as ghosts which, like in Potter, is a hellish fate
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Which is why I like the idea that Anakin doesn't share their fate but becomes Rey
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reincarnation is from one POV just saying again identity doesn't matter
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there's not a fundamental disjunction between your experiences and feelings and someone else's
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after all you already are a different consciousness than you ten years ago with only tenuous memory linking you
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