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1 posted on 04/02/2008 9:57:59 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
From Plato and Aristotle to Descartes, the great thinkers have for millennia argued over what is known in philosophy as the “mind-body problem,” the relationship between spirit and flesh. Dualism tends to win the day: The mind and the body, while linked, are separate. They exist independently, perhaps mingling but not merging.

The NY Times - worrying about things God told us about thousands of years ago.

Yet, these secularists believe they are so enlightened.

2 posted on 04/03/2008 3:25:36 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
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To: neverdem

“Does the body rule the mind
“Or does the mind rule the body?
“I don´t know....”

—”Still Ill”, The Smiths


3 posted on 04/03/2008 4:14:31 AM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody was going to post it...why not me?)
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