Phyllo, these comments don’t strike any nerves whatsoever.
Mongoose, explain your second sentence.
So you are completely dead. No surprise.
Mongoose, explain your rejection of Turds position.
Possibly I am dead to you.
I agree that you have no essence.
Mongoose, explain your outright blatant rejection (with no explanation) of Turds reply and my reply.
That is wrong. If everyone has an essence, then he has an essence.
Maybe you don’t like that essence.
How could he have something that is non-existent?
Mongoose, please explain your outright rejection of my view and of Turds view.
Essence doesn’t exist?
My position:
You’re almost that same today as you were yesterday. QED
Slowly changing is not the same as unchanging.
Whatever it takes to claim that you are right. 
Phyllo, my position is that no such thing as an unchanging inner core, which is Mongoose’s definition of essence, exists whereas Mongoose claims an unchanging inner core exists (I don’t have a fetish of sodomising the English language to make unchanging equal slowly changing).
I think what Maniacal Mongoose is trying to say using the word essence is individual psychological nature. For instance there seems to be a lot of classic narcissists in this thread.
Then what makes a person more or less the same today as he was yesterday? It’s not like he/she changes in a second or minute or hour or day.
No persona whatsoever? Yeah, that might be believable in your case.
So, Maniacal is stating that a persons individual psychological nature is unchanging; if so why do we have psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors.