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To: spirited irish
He is a mindless, soulless nothing, and so are you, perfect lady.

I'm not mindless, but I'm definitely soulless. So are you. So is everyone. A "soul" is a human fantasy, growing mostly out of an absolute inability to comprehend that you will one day cease to exist. Most of humanity's ego simply cannot accept that. "I? Cease to exist? Something as wonderful and complex as I am?? Impossible!"

435 posted on 01/06/2012 8:39:12 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (Anyone opposed to Newt should remember: we're not electing a messiah, we're electing a politician.)
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To: A_perfect_lady; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; YHAOS; Lakeshark; marron; metmom; xzins; GodGunsGuts

perfect lady: I’m not mindless

Spirited: Like the soul, the mind and its abilities-—reason, imagination, dream, memory, etc. are of the unseen dimension,which is why the nihilist Daniel Dennett logically denies mind along with soul and free will and concludes with, “there is no you.”

If ‘you’ are to remain logically consistent, ‘you’ must deny ‘your’ mind along with ‘your’ soul. That said, it is by your repeated use of reason and personal pronouns that you confess against what you profess to be true.


460 posted on 01/06/2012 2:44:21 PM PST by spirited irish
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To: A_perfect_lady
I'm not mindless, but I'm definitely soulless. So are you. So is everyone. A "soul" is a human fantasy, growing mostly out of an absolute inability to comprehend that you will one day cease to exist. Most of humanity's ego simply cannot accept that. "I? Cease to exist? Something as wonderful and complex as I am?? Impossible!"

Then you're forced into a position of explaining what it is that makes you, you. What it is that thinks and feels and reasons and chooses. Your consciousness, as it were. The part of you that is not the physical body.

And then there's the added complication of giving it a name.

So... ball's in your court.

464 posted on 01/06/2012 3:15:00 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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