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If you were suddenly a woman, would you be a lesbian or would you force yourself to have sex as God intended. Or just abstain entirely?

@beardalaxy genes arent a lottery. You exist as you are right now, or not at all
Oh fuck I hear this all the time, always from Christians...

> 40% chance you'd have been born an Indian.

Motherfucker, there's a 99.999% chance you'd have been born a speck of fucking bacteria.
@cjd @beardalaxy christians saying that seems odd. If anything it would be an atheist commie meme to me. From a Christian perspective, I am born as I am because God said so. And he doesn't flip flop on decisions. There's no universe where I'd be a woman or an Indian.
Christians are susceptible to it because of the belief that the Soul is implanted into the body, and that the two are separate.

I don't interact w/ Fedora-Atheists so IDK what they'd say on the topic, probably the exact same shit because they always manage to believe in all the worst parts of Christianity but none of the good stuff.
@cjd @teto @beardalaxy theosophy looks at reincarnations as choices made by the soul. And views DNA as something the soul activates. So yeah agreed not a lottery.
@teto @beardalaxy @cjd Traditional Christian theology as codified in the councils is an idealism similar to Neoplatonism so it's perfectly coherent. There are variable composites within a perfect logos, otherwise you lose the ability to identify categories formally and things like soteriological claims break down.

For a proper materialist, the categories are all virtual anyway. Conventional. The idea of an inner self apart from physical accidents comes from a Christian/Hellenic mode of thinking (and other derivatives but I don't think they matter here).
@teto @beardalaxy @cjd It doesn't really work in other religious traditions either, something like transracial or transgender fluidity is uniquely grounded in Western thought.

@teto I understand that, it's just a hypothetical though

@beardalaxy I would assume that my orientation would change and just go with that.

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You know, that the anwser is "depending on the style of transformation."

If my "self" was transfered perfectly, then attraction would be a part of this identity. But, since we have no idea how the different body feels, and how it would react to presence of other peopple, it could be, that sexuality would be a part of new biological reality.

So, the anwser is, you cannot know without re-defining the question to an absurd degree.

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