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To: tacticalogic

tacticalogic—Why do you not reject the metaphysical because it doesn’t deal with the material, and therefore must deny the obvious fact that we are corporeal?

Let’s rephrase your question thusly:
“Why do you not reject the soul, mind, free will, conscience, Laws of Logic, memory, personhood, and conscience because they are not material, and therefore must deny the obvious fact that we are corporeal?”

The very fact that you have freely chosen (free will) to make this inquiry, which makes use of your immaterial (spiritual) abilities, completely disproves your belief that you are something on the order of a block of wood.


112 posted on 06/21/2007 8:41:14 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: spirited irish
Let’s rephrase your question thusly:

Let's not. Let's answer the question as asked, explaining why one standard is applied to the physical, while the metaphysical is held to the exact opposite.

114 posted on 06/21/2007 8:51:00 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: spirited irish

And when we’ve figured out why we’re applying one standard to the physical and another to the metaphysical, we can explore why trying to hold them to the same standard - that each deals with only that in it’s own realm and can’t be faulted for not addressing things outside that realm - is “hypocrisy”.


116 posted on 06/21/2007 8:59:12 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: spirited irish
The very fact that you have freely chosen (free will)

That's not free will. Not even close. Judgement and choice is the department two doors down the hall.

122 posted on 06/21/2007 9:23:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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