[Dragaera] A Teckla thought

[Ken Koester]

Maximilian Wilson wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote:
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>>Yeah, but it wasn't *me* in any meaningful way who is in the other
>>incarnations.   I am getting the reward/punishment for some other guy.
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>Isn't this always true, whether you've died in between or not? One
>reason some people have trouble planning for the future is that it
>feels like an externality: I'm giving up something today for the sake
>of someone I don't really care about (me tomorrow). Who you identify
>with as "me" is ultimately an arbitrary, emotional decision.
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>-Max
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An argument first put forth by Beckett in his brilliant critique of 
Proust in the '30s, with a slightly different twist.

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