RE: One more dogma to add to the rest.
August 23, 2017 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2017 at 9:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 23, 2017 at 5:25 am)Little Rik Wrote:IDK, it sounds like you're coming up with ad hoc rationalizations as to why your contradictory statements are both simultaneously true. If It were me, I'd have picked one or the other and just said "yeah, my bad, I guess they don't both make sense".
(August 22, 2017 at 11:13 am)Khemikal Wrote: Well now wait a minute, just a minute ago you told us consciousness could never be destroyed, but now it "lose and fade away", purportedly, depending on whether or not we follow your gurus advice and/or how many dogs we kick.
Just trying to get some clarity here, it would be horrible if my indestructible consciousness was somehow.....destroyed.
Good question Kem.
Fade away doesn't necessary mean to be destroyed.
Take something that you put away maybe in the store room.
After sometime the dust will cover it and if you look at it the image is not as clear as if would be kept away from the dust.
It is fading away as the dust cover it up but the object is still there.
If you clean it up his image will be restored.
Or take the sun.
When the clouds prevent us to see the sun you can hardly see it but as soon as the clouds go away then the sun will show again.
The sun doesn't die just because you can not see it.
It is only the fact that something prevent us to see it.
In other words no consciousness can be killed.
At the same time the consciousness can not be felt in some cases or can be felt even more in other cases.
Got it?
Is my consciousness like a jar, or the sun? Both of those things -can- be destroyed. Neither is being destroyed or even fading away when covered by dust or obstructed by clouds. If my consciousness fades away to the point of not being "able to see it" in what way am I conscious, in what way does it still exist?
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