RE: Question about "faith"
September 28, 2020 at 12:38 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2020 at 12:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 28, 2020 at 12:01 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: 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.
I think that anthropologists would strongly take issue with the notion that we lack records. Sure, dreams...hallucinations, drugs..but these are all just sub-groups of a larger set. Human experience. Our everyday human experience also provides us with the intuition that we are or have a something we routinely call a soul. We credibly employ the term even when we don't believe in spirits.
Our inability to comprehend the processes involved lead us to fill that conceptual void with the specific contents of our immediate mythologies - and it's worth pointing out that immateriality is the exception to the rule on that count.
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