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by mannicken 6197 days ago
You think that you'll make lots of money and get back to your dream in 2-3 years but you'd be wrong. You'll be dead in 2-3 years. Perhaps not physically but this person right now that is you -- he will no longer exist, only someone who has memories of being you.
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How are the two different? You might as well say that I will be dead in the next minute. What makes me is not this instant, this second, is the core me, the core ideas, perspectives, themes, aims.