RE: The problem of the soul
August 8, 2021 at 7:06 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2021 at 7:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 8, 2021 at 4:26 pm)WinterHold Wrote: He is totally unique, our eyes cant even see him in this life, when I picture God I just picture a blank void;
There's alot of stuff our eyes cant see, a whole universe of unique stuff just like that, isn't there?
Quote:actually we were taught that from a very young age by our parents as Muslims; Anthropomorphism is despised by Islam.Is a burger being made out of stuff anthropomorphizing a burger? Is that what you think the term refers to?
What your parents were probably trying to tell you is that it's not kosher to imagine god as a human man with a face, etc. Most stuff isn't a human man, and doesn't have a face, more of the same from above.
I'm trying to figure out why god can't be stuff. Not wondering whether it has a visible penis.
By the by, the impulses in the brain aren't actually electricity, we're not a piece of consumer electronics (as the contention goes, we're not a program or even the machine, we're the product of the immensely powerful drugs the whole thing is sitting in)- but it makes for a good analogy to how being could be mechanically arrived at. If that thing, our being, which you call a soul...can be stuff.... and you seem to believe very strongly that it is stuff....that only makes it even more mystifying that you reject the notion of god as stuff. Doesn't it?
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