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14.4.06

born awhatnow?

when there used to be a person that one knew, and instead of dying, which one knows perfectly well how to deal with, by now, sadly enough, thanks anyway, and moving on, that person became Born Again, what are the theological implications of this? is the person one used to know still considered to exist, or has it been annulled, like all those Catholic marriages that suddenly never happened? does the rebirthing process void all previous interaction as it is claimed to void all sin, particularly if a large part of the previous interaction would certainly be classified as christian sin in the first place, on their part, at least if that is the sort of thing one believes in? it's not only that one doesn't know, now, who they are or why they made this decision: if you're born again, do you kill off your previous self? what happens to it? how big of a disjoint is it spiritually supposed to be?

when a person dies one can still hold memories of them: nobody tells you you're not supposed to; nobody is surprised if you're happy or sad or angry or wistful or whatever. however. if someone is born again they'll tell you that's not who i am any more and quite honestly how is one supposed to deal with them if the entity one used to know is now invalid? is it just a re-start, hi my name is? or can there be an allowance for what came before?

to get a little more specific. how can i forgive someone that will no longer be recognized as anything but a figment of my own imagination? how is that fair? I WANT COSMIC JUSTICE.

p.s. my karma ran over your dogma. oops. sorry. tags:born again

scrawled @ 15:37