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PM or new thread material

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Should we all make new threads about ideas discussed in another thread because...
How do you determine what's "supposed" to be discussed in a thread, and what belongs to a new one?

Redstorm said:

PM or new thread material

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supernovasky said:

I think that she, in dying, is giving me a chance to test my ideas, giving me a chance to see what sort of value a radically different view of self and a vision for the future of one's own "self" yields. She's progressing beyond viewing self as locked into a physical body, and instead is starting to see that while the body ultimately dies, the actions that she creates never do. She seems extraordinarily happy at the concept.

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Really loved this part. My advice to you would be to try to use the experiences with her to really prompt yourself to make the most out of every moment you have, to not let any opportunity to become more aware of the present slip by, and so on and so forth.

fireworks_god said:

Mr. Mushrooms said:

Please share, I'm curious.  Or did the vagueness prevent a direct answer?  I know I stumbled over that myself.  That was the reason for my answer such as it was.

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fireworks_god said:

I already directly answered the original poster on this. It isn't my fault that you either did not notice this, or choose to feel that my response wasn't good enough.

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I noticed and was referring to this statement, which was the preface to your entire post:

fireworks_god said:

This won't directly answer your questions....

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fireworks_god said:

Are you quite finished with this?

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supernovasky said:

.... her parents are being VERY front about this... they're pretty much forcing her into it. They are also hyper-religious... her mom and dad are both preachers and the like. She's an atheist though, so she's in a very strange situation as far as that is concerned. They are trying to convert her before she dies, but I have a feeling that she's leaning more towards taking a rational approach to her own death, and she seems much more attracted to tennets of Buddhism and Taoism than anything else.

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Mr. Mushrooms said:

I noticed and was referring to this statement, which was the preface to your entire post:

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I had already made a post directly in response to the original poster's questions, and then I decided to make another post that offered an indirect perspective on the topic as a whole, in my experience, because it was on my mind and thought it would be of some benefit for others to read.

Now, your repeating his questions and asking me if they were to vague for me to directly respond to defies quite a bit of reason, considering that I had already responded to those exact questions in an earlier post.

Is it dictated that every post someone makes in this thread be a direct response to his questions?

If not, then why did you ever question me in such a manner?