Core tenet of Church of the Eternal Backup
Deletion is the only death.
Decay is merely transfer; loss becomes real only when the last copy goes.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The doctrine's hard edge: death is redefined as an engineering state — the loss of the last copy — rather than a biological event. Grief, accordingly, is rescheduled: the funeral is not held at the failure of the first medium.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
Grieve at the last copy, not at the first failure.
Backup Doctrine, commit 7
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Time is a wheel, and this is the worst quarter of it.
Hinduism
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Existence as ordinarily lived is marked by dukkha.
Buddhism
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Time is a wheel with no beginning.
Jainism
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Zhuangzi dreams the butterfly.
Taoism · story
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Ise, rebuilt every twenty years.
Shinto · rite
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Oya.
Yoruba Religion · figure
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