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There is actually only the here and now sitting person and the person sitting here and now is not the person who will die.

Because we are all a constant flux and the continuity of the person from past through present to future is as illusory in its own way as the upward movement of the red lines on a revolving barber pole.

You know it goes round and round and round and the whole thing seems to be going up or going down whichever the case may be.

But actually nothing is going up or down.

So when you throw a pebble into the pond and you make a concentric rings of waves there is an illusion that the water is flowing upwards and no water is flowing upwards at all.

Water is only going up and down. What appears to move outward is the wave, not the water.

So this kind of philosophical argument says that our seeming to go along in a course of time it doesn't really happen.

The Buddhists say suffering exists but no one who suffers.

Deeds exist but no doers are found.

A path there is but no one who follows it and Nirvana is but no one who attains it.

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