(January 9, 2018 at 2:34 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:

(January 9, 2018 at 1:18 pm)Mikeykitty123 Wrote: This user says souls do not exist, the afterlife does not exist and reincarnation does not exist. Next thing you'll know they'll say that emotions do not exist or love does not exist. You cannot feel or love if you have no soul.

LOL.  You must still be in grade school.  "Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure."  It's a mental, biological (often hormonal, you'll learn about that some day) reaction to stimuli.  "Love" - and let's leave out sexual attraction and just go with caring for the well-being of another - has been identified in many species, and they don't even have to be mammalian.  The fantasy that you carry within you some invisible undetectable eternal "self" that some call a "soul" has absolutely nothing to do with emotions.  It's simply a fantasy that comes from a fear of dying.  We humans are so egotistical that we can't imagine the universe going on without us.

You need to study some science, get out more, and stop pulling outrageous statements out of your imagination and creating childish ad hominem attacks against total strangers.

So, who is behind this mental activity?

Who is fuzzy?

YOU are.
And who is YOU?
Your consciousness......your soul or who else?
Try to sort that out so you will not spout fantasies once again.  


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(January 9, 2018 at 7:19 pm)Little Rik Wrote:

(January 9, 2018 at 2:34 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: LOL.  You must still be in grade school.  "Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure."  It's a mental, biological (often hormonal, you'll learn about that some day) reaction to stimuli.  "Love" - and let's leave out sexual attraction and just go with caring for the well-being of another - has been identified in many species, and they don't even have to be mammalian.  The fantasy that you carry within you some invisible undetectable eternal "self" that some call a "soul" has absolutely nothing to do with emotions.  It's simply a fantasy that comes from a fear of dying.  We humans are so egotistical that we can't imagine the universe going on without us.

You need to study some science, get out more, and stop pulling outrageous statements out of your imagination and creating childish ad hominem attacks against total strangers.

So, who is behind this mental activity?

Who is fuzzy?

YOU are.
And who is YOU?
Your consciousness......your soul or who else?
Try to sort that out so you will not spout fantasies once again.  


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   Actually, I'm not - that response completely fulfilled my expectations.  I just liked the sign.
Are you seriously telling me that you don't understand how electrical pulses travel along the axons and neurons in the brain?  You haven't heard of lobotomies - destroy one area of the brain, kill certain emotions and impulses forever?  You haven't read about the many, many instances of brain injury that removed the individuals ability to feel emotions, and completely altered the consciousness and behavior of the injured individual?  If emotions and consciousness was housed in a "soul", this would never happen.  Emotions reside only in the gray matter, Rik.  Mental activity = electrical impulses in a biological computer.  That is what the person is, the personality is, what emotions are.  There is no "soul".    The one who is spouting fantasies with no scientific support is, as usual, you.

(January 9, 2018 at 8:53 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:

(January 9, 2018 at 7:19 pm)Little Rik Wrote: So, who is behind this mental activity?

Who is fuzzy?

YOU are.
And who is YOU?
Your consciousness......your soul or who else?
Try to sort that out so you will not spout fantasies once again.  


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   Actually, I'm not - that response completely fulfilled my expectations.  I just liked the sign.
Are you seriously telling me that you don't understand how electrical pulses travel along the axons and neurons in the brain?  You haven't heard of lobotomies - destroy one area of the brain, kill certain emotions and impulses forever?  You haven't read about the many, many instances of brain injury that removed the individuals ability to feel emotions, and completely altered the consciousness and behavior of the injured individual?  If emotions and consciousness was housed in a "soul", this would never happen.  Emotions reside only in the gray matter, Rik.  Mental activity = electrical impulses in a biological computer.  That is what the person is, the personality is, what emotions are.  There is no "soul".    The one who is spouting fantasies with no scientific support is, as usual, you.

It is natural that if you destroy the brain nothing else works.
As far as you are using the body and brain as a vehicle to carry on with this material-physical life that is more than natural.
Who ever challenged this view?
Not me fuzzy.
What I was saying is that you are not the body-brain.
You are not the vehicle that you use to carry on in this physical life.
Nobody so far has found any evidence that when your body-brain die you also die.
NOBODY ever did and nobody ever will because energy-consciousness is behind destruction.
Only idiots think the contrary.  

Of course you are not an idiot fuzzy, do you?  

I don't believe in souls...so...I can't make sense out of that.

(January 10, 2018 at 8:20 am)Industrial Lad Wrote: I can't make sense out of that.

Neither can Rik, but that never stopped him, now did it? 

Yeah it's so much gibberish that it's pretty much impossible to formulate an answer.  Not that Rik actually responds to logic anyway.  Not worth the time.

(January 10, 2018 at 12:40 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Yeah it's so much gibberish that it's pretty much impossible to formulate an answer.  Not that Rik actually responds to logic anyway.  Not worth the time.

As far as you spout so called truth that are void of any evidence is quite natural that you can not formulate an answer.  

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(January 10, 2018 at 8:20 am)Industrial Lad Wrote: I don't believe in souls...so...I can't make sense out of that.

It takes time Lad.
We all have been through that demented stage  but at the end we all wake up and grow up.  
Stage one......get rid of the dogma that your body-brain is you.
Stage two......start working on your consciousness so it will come natural that there is a gold mine of consciousness within.
Stage three....now the realization that you are behind destruction come natural as the effort goes on.
Stage four......now you are out the mental sewer.
Stage five......now you are the real you......I AM........I AM IMMORTAL.........

Do you huff glue right before you post, Rik?

(January 10, 2018 at 8:12 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Do you huff glue right before you post, Rik?

After reading so many philosophy books what you got VL?

You got nothing.  
No real progress so at the end of your life you will take with you all the intellectual knowledge but as far as reducing the distance that separate you from the goal of life nil.
Absolutely nil.

Oh, I am sorry.
I forgot that for you there is nothing once you die.
Oh, well then nothing plus nothing is still nothing.  

(January 10, 2018 at 7:55 pm)Little Rik Wrote:

(January 10, 2018 at 8:20 am)Industrial Lad Wrote: I don't believe in souls...so...I can't make sense out of that.

It takes time Lad.
We all have been through that demented stage  but at the end we all wake up and grow up.  
Stage one......get rid of the dogma that your body-brain is you.
Stage two......start working on your consciousness so it will come natural that there is a gold mine of consciousness within.
Stage three....now the realization that you are behind destruction come natural as the effort goes on.
Stage four......now you are out the mental sewer.
Stage five......now you are the real you......I AM........I AM IMMORTAL.........