RE: Soul
March 29, 2013 at 7:50 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2013 at 8:01 pm by Mystic.)
(March 29, 2013 at 7:41 pm)Tex Wrote: I actually say thoughts and dreams are material (the brain drifting while asleep). I have no problem with the soul being used in these dreams though. The part that sparked my interest was that the conclusions need more stimulus than they are receiving. I figured it'd be more beneficial to those here to understand why I think quantity is immaterial first though.
So all our thoughts except for numbers are material? So our mind can logically say sentences that are material, experience pleasure, peace, mind, happiness, decide things, do decisions and remember events....and have a concept of oneself and all of this being material, but just mathematics is non-material? You don't find there is something wrong with that? There is nothing non-material the soul experiences but numbers?
To me, it seems, if we have a soul, then all our thoughts are non-material, even though there is systematic way of thoughts through the material world.
(March 29, 2013 at 7:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Okay, let's take it as given that mathematical expressions represent real entities. What is your next step?
Exactly, assume God exists, assume everything about numbers you believe, it being non-material, assume soul exists....just show how skeptics would come to know this is true as opposed to materialism.