RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 14, 2012 at 9:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 9:30 am by NoMoreFaith.)
(March 14, 2012 at 9:14 am)genkaus Wrote: Incidentally, I think it is this reductionist approach that caused us to come up with the idea of a soul or a spirit. If you start looking for the essence of a human being - his self - by dividing him up and discarding parts of him - something like - "No, I'm not my body, I'm more than that. No, I'm not my mind - I'm more than that. No, I'm not my thoughts - I'm more than that. No, I'm not my emotions - I'm more than that" - you'd end up with nothing. Then the only recourse would be to come up with the imaginary non-physical "soul" as the essence of a "self".
Your argument appears to state;
You have a triangle.
Take away one side, is that the triangle? No?
Take away another side, is that the triangle? No?
Take away the last side, is that the triangle? No?
Then you now have nothing left, THEREFORE the triangle transcends its sides.
Which is obvious bullshit.
My (maybe presume our) position is that the triangle is the whole thing, and nothing you can do can change it from being a triangle without adding the supernatural.
Self-authenticating private evidence is useless, because it is indistinguishable from the illusion of it. ― Kel, Kelosophy Blog
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
