At 07:08 AM 9/12/2008, you wrote:
[Marsha]
The operative word is 'fictitious'.
[Arlo]
If you believe this, you wouldn't be schizophrenic over whether or not SA,
Krimel are Arlo are variations of a theme. You'd judge each fiction on their
own merit, according to the value each present.
There is no each!!! 'Each' is your fantasy, and I don't share
it. You're just trying to justify your behavior, and that is one of
deception. Where the rules are known only to you.
They'd all be fictitious, and
worrying about "honesty" and this and that would disappear, as "honesty"
relates to some "realness" that transcends the fiction.
And as soon as I become a Buddha, I shall do just that. Meanwhile I
would want honesty to part of the social transaction. Are you
stating that honesty means nothing to you?
You wouldn't feel
"deceived" if SA's body turned out to have female parts since both "SA" and
whatever "in real life" personae that shares her/his brain are both
"fictions".
How could there be "one real gender" they should have?
Why are you hung up on this sexual gender thing? As far as I know SA
is a man. 'What if he isn't?' isn't a game I'm interested in playing.
Unless you're now gonna say "there's one real fictitious self" one should "be
honest in a conventional way" about?
I'm going to say when you open your mouth you speak the truth as best
you can. Seems that concept is difficult for you. Why?
Its easy to say you think "selves" are fictitious, Marsha, but so
far everything you've posted points to the opposite view.
No independent self, and no fictitious selves. Think process. Part
of the process of being a self should include honesty.
The "fiction" includes the ideas of continuity over time and continuity
across contexts, or its hardly a fiction, is it?
It would be a fiction.
The separateness of "Marsha" and "Arlo" is a fiction, and whether
or not they share a bodily host wouldn't matter to you.
So you are on the Buddha track. On a broader sense than the
conventional, this is true. This does not dismiss the requirement to
speak with honesty.
Each would be valued as the only reality they can ever have,
as avatars in a social world.
What precisely is your definition of avatar???
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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