


Laeth
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@laethcore
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memory always concerns specifics, and is the building block of our personhood. it is not just abstract knowledge. an afterlife without memory (as pure spirit) is not without knowledge, but it is without memory, and thus without personhood.

memory always concerns specifics, and is the building block of our personhood. it is not just abstract knowledge. an afterlife without memory (as pure spirit) is not without knowledge, but it is without memory, and thus without personhood.

since memory depends on the conscious experience of the flesh, that is, both intellect and body, neither reincarnation nor spirit existence work against loss of memory. thus the offer of resurrection, embodied continuation, not a restart, or a timeless permanence.


a page off my upcoming book

memory is and indeed must be sensory, not intellectual. because memory is the future looking upon the past. it cannot exist independent of duration, time. pure thought, being as it is timeless, is the anthesis of memory.


why would the esoteric mormon guy write a coming of age romance drama instead of, say, a treatise on the evolution of consciousness. it's a good question. it shows that online we're only slices of ourselves, and what people expect from you is less than your whole.


I read old books because I would rather learn from those who built civilization than those who tore it down.


