born again?

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Dan Rowden wrote:. . . is dead and reborn as someone else.
What do you mean by “reborn as someone else”?

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This thread is an example (I have no idea why you didn't just ask this in the other thread btw). It is not the same thread as the other one even though it contains elements of it. It has reincarnated. If a perfect person is somehow "deperfected" by some force or other then they are no longer that person, by definition. They have died and been reborn.

A perfect person is only perfect whilst the causes of their perfection continue.
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Dan Rowden wrote:This thread is an example (I have no idea why you didn't just ask this in the other thread btw).

(I didn’t ask the question in the other thread because the subject of my inquiry here is the meaning you give to the term “reborn as someone else”, which is different then the subject of the other thread, the ‘perfect human being’.)
Dan Rowden wrote:If a perfect person is somehow "deperfected" by some force or other then they are no longer that person, by definition. They have died and been reborn.

In that case, perfection is a characteristic like other characteristics and “reborn as someone else” means some identifiable identity is subject to changing characteristics. For example, the human being named George sits, and is reborn the sitting George, until he stands and is reborn the standing George, until . . .
Dan Rowden wrote:A perfect person is only perfect whilst the causes of their perfection continue.
I agree.
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