Existence must exist at all times.

[bennyboy]

I see. I see. So there are some things about existence that are eternal and necessary (like energy). Some things are temporal and non-necessary (like particular configurations of energy and their duration).

So energy existing in a particular way and during a particular time = me. But my energy is never the same from one moment to the next. What about "me" remains me, and what about "me" changes? (If nothing about ""me" is the same from one moment to the next... then there is no "me" to speak of as changing)

I enjoy your arguments.  Are you now trying to inject the idea of soul as that which is the "me," and which since it by definition takes no changing form must be eternal?

Is it not possible that "me" is really an idea, and that each moment the torch is passed to the next? If the self may be an idea, then it seems a soul would be unnecessary in the sense of providing "me-ness."