RE: So I went looking for evidence of a soul...
October 5, 2009 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2009 at 9:56 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
Rhizo Wrote:Not really sure[...]I guess we may have to just agree to disagree on it then eh?
Quote:Like I said, my own personal experiences are the evidence for me.
Evidence 'to you', it's evidence 'to you'? What like something being 'true to you'? Isn't evidence an objective thing? I mean, if someone said that the fact Clouds exist 'to them' is evidence that God exists, then is that evidence? Just because it is 'to them'?
I understand that it's evidence 'to you', but does that really make it evidence unless you have reason to believe that it is actually evidence, that applies to everyone, and is objective, in reality? I mean...is personal experience really evidence, if it's impartial to whether it's 'you' or not...if it was someone else who had had the experience - would you believe them? If 70,000 people see the sun crashing to Earth, and yet it obviously didn't happen, is your experience to be accounted above them simply because it's you? My view is that, no matter how intense the experience, alternative possibilities are much more likely.
I understand that you see there to be a reason to believe. But I don't quite get the phrase of it being 'evidence to you', I mean, is it evidence or not? There are standards of evidence - something isn't merely evidence if it is 'to you', or whoever else.
Quote:Assuming there is an abrupt weight loss at the point of death, it would be interesting to know what accounts for it. What if the soul is real and material?
Rhizo
Indeed, 'What if'? I'll believe it when I know of any evidence. I'm not asking for you to provide any. I'm just giving my view.
(October 5, 2009 at 2:37 am)Arcanus Wrote:(October 1, 2009 at 1:07 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: The fact that you don't believe it does not mean it didn't happen. ... The fact that you think I am saying YOU should believe is just your erroneous reading of my post.
What is the word? My vocabulary fails me. It is something between ironic and serendipitous that you are raising this point over here with Evie while, at essentially the same time, I'm raising the exact same point in another thread elsewhere with Eilonnwy. Awesome, hilarious, ironic, serendipitous, neato, something.
It may be an amusing coincidence to you. But the point he made was a strawman, since I never said such a thing. So ironically, it was an erroneous reading of my post, not the other way around.
EvF
