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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 663813" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>In the religious/philosophical school I practice under, this is not considered a bad state of affairs.</p><p></p><p>Khephri, the neter that is the dung or scarab beetle, embodies rebirth or becoming of the self. Khephri collects all the poop she can find, lays an egg in it, pushes it around until she finds the best place to bury it, then leaves it behind and walks away.</p><p></p><p>Eventually a new being hatches from that ball of dung.</p><p></p><p>When you quit pushing your respective ball of <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> around, lay your egg in it and walk away. The Self that hatches out of that ball of <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> also walks away. She is done with that particular ball; there may be other <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> that happens but that's going to be a completely different ball of poop. The egg that hatches out of that collective ball is no longer the Self that spent all that time pushing it around.</p><p></p><p>The hieroglyphs for the process can translate into: "I have come into being; by the process of becoming I continue to come into being." Time in that way isn't a circle, it is a spiral. Each level up may look the same but it is never the same. The person you were last week, last month, last year is never the same as who you are now. </p><p></p><p>This kind of change isn't a bad thing at all. Don't return to the Past Self.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 663813, member: 15907"] In the religious/philosophical school I practice under, this is not considered a bad state of affairs. Khephri, the neter that is the dung or scarab beetle, embodies rebirth or becoming of the self. Khephri collects all the poop she can find, lays an egg in it, pushes it around until she finds the best place to bury it, then leaves it behind and walks away. Eventually a new being hatches from that ball of dung. When you quit pushing your respective ball of :censored2: around, lay your egg in it and walk away. The Self that hatches out of that ball of :censored2: also walks away. She is done with that particular ball; there may be other :censored2: that happens but that's going to be a completely different ball of poop. The egg that hatches out of that collective ball is no longer the Self that spent all that time pushing it around. The hieroglyphs for the process can translate into: "I have come into being; by the process of becoming I continue to come into being." Time in that way isn't a circle, it is a spiral. Each level up may look the same but it is never the same. The person you were last week, last month, last year is never the same as who you are now. This kind of change isn't a bad thing at all. Don't return to the Past Self. [/QUOTE]
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