RE: Question about "faith"
September 28, 2020 at 12:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2020 at 12:06 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(September 27, 2020 at 2:42 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(September 27, 2020 at 2:30 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Since when do we [i]know[/know] that?
Please provide one example, that is demonstrable, of soul.
We know that because of it's proposition. That is what souls are conjectured to be: immaterial and associated with, and even responsible for, living things.
And why did we conjecture souls in the first place? We lack records but experiences of dreams, hallucinations, and psychedelic drugs give a reason to suspect we leave our bodies and go to some different place where the rules of the waking world aren't preserved. But outside observers couldn't tell that you were doing anything but dreaming, seizing, or tripping; hence the immateriality of dream self. Then we couldn't possibly understand what was really happening. Now we have strong evidence that this is all stuff happening in our brains. The phenomena that prompted the proposition in the first place have shown on close examination to not support the proposition; but since the proposition has been (usually) that souls are immaterial, not being able to detect them is a prediction of the proposition and cannot be falsified. If souls can be detected, they're real; if they can't be detected, they're immaterial. The definition lets you have it both ways because whether souls are actually detectable or not does not affect the proposition.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.