RE: Are you with Leibniz or Cicero?
May 30, 2016 at 5:39 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2016 at 5:46 pm by Mudhammam.)
Would you necessarily have the same mindset if everything around you played out exactly the same? How much spontaneity is there in the world - or in one's will - to allow that your circumstances might be drastically altered even if the state at, say, birth, were largely or even precisely the same?
It's a tough choice if you imagine also having to relearn everything, that is, taking on the same ignorance that children must eventually shed. Of course, there's the small chance that you'll be given a similar life but with extraordinarily good parents (in other ways than perhaps you presently view yours to have been) or possess a natural gift of wisdom, though there's also the chance that you'll come back as Donald Trump's great grandchild.
It's a tough choice if you imagine also having to relearn everything, that is, taking on the same ignorance that children must eventually shed. Of course, there's the small chance that you'll be given a similar life but with extraordinarily good parents (in other ways than perhaps you presently view yours to have been) or possess a natural gift of wisdom, though there's also the chance that you'll come back as Donald Trump's great grandchild.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
