/lit/ - Literature

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When you die, your body decomposes. It "continues to exist" insofar as there is conservation of mass, and it is "annihilated" insofar as it loses recognizable form over time. Conversely: it is *not* "annihilated" insofar as its material does not disappear, and it does *not* "continue to exist" insofar as it loses its recognizable form.
To put it another way, if you make butter from milk, and ghee from the butter, you're not annihilating the milk, you've just transformed the substance. You wouldn't say that the milk has been annihilated, nor that the ghee is milk, nor that the ghee is milk's "soul" in another body.

Working on Japanese and Pali. For Japanese I'm using the Core 2K anki deck and Tae Kim's grammar guide, plus my own anki deck of vocab regarding religion, metaphysics, etc. For Pali I'm just using the Intro to Pali textbook published by the PTS. I've been doing JP on and off for a few years, trying to keep the ball rolling until I can read a news article half-comfortably (can't do that at all rn). I started Pali this past weekend, so not much to report on it.

is it "wrong" or ingenuine for a Westerner to convert to Eastern religion? I feel conflicted on the topic. I feel like it could be viewed as a larp for me to be Buddhist or Hindu as a white westerner. Anyone else feel this way?