Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00232)

On Fri, 10 Jan 97, John Straughn <JTarn@envirolink.org> wrote:

>Tom Robertson writes:

>>I hope you're not implying that I have been anything but perfectly
>>consistent, as I am incapable of such human error.  Individual human
>>beings, like all other forms, constantly change.  Only what cannot change
>>is real.  I don't see how I am saying anything all that profound.  I don't
>>even smoke, and I rarely sneeze, anyway.

>Just to clear things up.  If your first sentence is not meant to be sarcastic, 
>which I would think it was, 

I would never be sarcastic.  Well, almost never, anyway.


>is the *I* to which you are referring the "you" as 
>the human individual or the unchangeable "real" you?

I don't believe there is an unchangeable real me.  Individuality is a
temporary illusion.  Whatever had a beginning must have an end.