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Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
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RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
(September 16, 2015 at 9:02 am)lkingpinl Wrote: Not at all.  I believe this life has purpose so I live to protect my life.  In the monistic Idealism, you believe this "life" is not the "real" life but more of a dream within the larger reality.  Christianity is not the same.  I will say I'm not afraid to die because of the belief system I hold and that there is an afterlife and I do have an immortal soul, but I don't think this bodily life is meaningless.
I must have missed something. Why would life in an Idealism be less meaningful? Meaning, after all, is an idea. All the nesses (Mother-ness, happy-ness, etc.) are ideas, and those are the things which give parts of our life its meaning.
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RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist - by bennyboy - September 16, 2015 at 9:19 am
RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist - by Cato - September 18, 2015 at 12:16 am

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