(November 1, 2021 at 6:28 pm)GaryAnderson Wrote:You're just a meat machine with delusions of grandeur based on your belief. I came in here, so I don't know if it was addressed below.(November 1, 2021 at 6:23 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Same here: lack of belief in God or gods which follows from my lack of knowledge of whether gods exist or not (agnosticism, though I would call agnostics a sect).
Same deal with the afterlife: no evidence, no knowledge, therefore no belief. As for souls, I like how Nietzsche puts it: "soul is a word for something about the body." There isn't some airy fairy thing called a soul. But soul is a thing we ascribe to beings with conscious awareness. That conscious awareness is caused by brain functioning.
Thank you. You sound like a true atheist, but I’m waiting for one here to give me the correct answer. I am going to call this sect “The Meat Machines”. Meat Machines are basically people whose value is just that. Meat. We will get to this later.
Your answer on soul, skirts on philosophy though and based on your position as “lack of belief” you shouldn’t delve into any philosophy. Do you agree/disagree with this?
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.