@TFS- There have been cases (albeit a rarity, I think I linked in an older thred, but I'm rel busy at work today so you'll have to refind them) where someone's brain waves have ceased and they have pulminotory and brain death. They were mentall dicombobulated when they woke up but they still coveyed a sense of "I am". What's I'm saying is you can alter the brain and that influence the mind. You can simulate certain symptoms of elation biochemically. You can even alter the perception of the past reality. If the mind is solely dependant on the brain for everything then when it dies, so would all aspects of mind, correct? You can not however take away the core sense of self that says "I am". Not yet at least.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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