RE: Hell
October 24, 2010 at 11:27 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2010 at 11:36 am by Anomalocaris.)
(October 24, 2010 at 10:06 am)Welsh cake Wrote:(October 24, 2010 at 9:12 am)Tiberius Wrote: Immortality means you cannot die. Indestructibility means you can't be destroyed. Neither of these attributes have anything to do with pain, nor do they negate your ability to feel it.That's a logical contradiction. If we accept the first premise that souls exist and they're only just immortal, then yes, it could still experience pain, but does not in anyway account for Plato's argument that it is also indestructible i.e. the opposite of destructible - something that cannot be destroyed or damaged.
No external or internal stimulus can feasibly damage it by that definition. Since pain is simply the unpleasant emotional experience associated with actual damage, if a soul's indestructible then it can't be harmed in any possible way, therefore is insensitive to pain.
No, that's not. When the mechanism for pain in an immortal, immaterial soul has not been outlined, there can be no reason to insist pain must correlate to degrees of damage.
