12-28-2006, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by stephencp  In the Buddhist/reincartion context, you will continue your lesson in the next life/incarnation (and next and next and next....) until you escape the cycle and realize that there is no "you" to continue. | I may have this wrong (not a student of Mormonism), but:
If you're a Mormon, this is simply another world on your journey. To die is to go onto the next world, in which you'll be alive.
__________________ "I read, I interpret, I think, I criticize, I oppose, I listen, I write, I question, I reply, I quote, I tell, I name, I discuss, I interpolate..., I learn, I teach, I live, therefore I am." -- Marc-Alain Ouaknin, "Mysteries of the Kabbalah", p383.
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