(April 5, 2010 at 3:51 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:(March 27, 2010 at 10:36 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: I was watching a program about cosmology with my spiritualist wife when the program mentioned that there was matter that we cant see or interact with that accounted for 90% (I think it said) of the mass of the universe.What is spirit supposed to be anyway? As a former Christian I always thought it was energy, or something physical that science simply can't detect (please don't laugh) but there doesn't seem to be any reliable definition among religious groups over what the hell it, and/or the realm made up of it, are essentially.
My wife suddenly became quite excited, and said 'couldnt that matter be the spirit realm' and more or less dared me to prove somehow that it wasn't.
A heated discussion ensued that ended with her being less than convinced that I was right.
Help.
Ah The spirit.
my wife firmly believes that the soul or spirit is entirely seperate from the body, the body being like clothng that can be discarded
She seems to believe it has some physial properties because she has mentoned a spurious experiment where someone measured the body at the point of death and noted wieght difference he attributed to the soul leaving the body.
I think she meant this chap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_MacDougall_(doctor)
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
