Rant against anti-atheist agnostics.

[bennyboy]

Excessive punctuation is a symptom of a weak, hysterical mind.

And turning the point of a conversation towards insulting ones intelligence for grammatical errors in such a relaxed, non-formal format, is a symptom of a short cut to thinking of something clever to say.

It was not a grammatical error. Rather than address an argument rationally, you used punctuation with the intent of conveying emotion instead. This is an intellectual cop-out: "I'm having a hard time, so I don't have to make valid points." Don't do that. If you are having a time, you have my sympathy, and in a thread about that, I will express it; but I don't want to see every thread you get involved in devolve to a collection of virtual hugs and pats on the back.

the Sun, Really, just shows how easy it is to preach at museum about what everybody else is wrong about, and put no thought into a real answer. The Sun, produces a chemical process that makes you like Peanuts, or be allergic to them ? The Sun's chemical process makes it hurt when your Dad dies ? ... or helps you decide whether "Happy Gilmore" was funny or stupid?

You asked what animates the body, not what causes subjective experience to exist, or free will. We know how the sun's energy is stored by plants, converted by animals to meat, and made usable by people, and that's the most concise answer to the question you asked. Instead of talking about animated bodies, just say, "Why mind?"

Personally, I think that the existence of mind is a strong challenge to materialism, and one of the best points for a theist/deist/spiritualist to begin at. So I guess maybe we have that in common?