who wants to live forever ?, page-42

ddzx,

becomming is becomming, whatever you want to apply it to.

as to what is going on when something becomes something else and there is a rememberance of former things,
conceptually, the processes are quite different, it's not a negligible or trivial point, imo.

"Buddhist after trillions of lifetimes finishes it all in Nirvana"

ask someone, who you think is a buddhist, if a buddhist can go to nirvarna.

"Mental tendencies, as I thoroughly explained to you, are not separate from the physical body. The mental tendency to experience pleasure or for sex is related to the physical body."

that's right - "related".
you may enjoy driving a car, but when you get out of it you can still have the desire to do it, even if you are physically unable to do so.
or, if the car is destroyed in a wrecking yard, the tendancy can still exist to drive it even though it no longer exists.

we have differences in opinion/experiences, and there really is no problem with that.
at least to some degree,
what path you are on is just right for you
what path i am on is just right for me.

in the grand scheme of things, we may well be both sitting in plato's cave looking at the shadows on the wall.
but still, that's no excuse.