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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 11:19 am
The Easter bunny too?
Come on now, that's just mean!
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 11:20 am
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 11:21 am
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That's the argument from ignorance. Our inability to have the answer does not validate your unsupported claims.
We are honest enough to say we don't have all the answers.
You also load the question by saying "who", assuming your conclusion that it was an intelligence. And that's assuming it was anything at all.
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 11:27 am
(January 7, 2016 at 3:34 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: The "program" needs a piece of machinery to receive and interpret the digital information, does it not? Yes... That is what the Brain/Body is.
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 11:44 am
(January 7, 2016 at 3:37 pm)mediocrates Wrote: (January 7, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Drich Wrote: Here is a simple way to look at it: The Brain is just a receiver/OS that drives the hardware/Your bodily function. The soul is the you 'program' located in 'the cloud.'
It's like a cloud based App/Game. Your brain/body is like your phone. It is the interface to the app/cloud based Game that can be done anywhere.
Has there ever been, in the history of the world, any event that would imply that might be the case? Instant communication between our brains and our souls over vast distances without interruption? Signals that are undetectable though right?
That claim seriously needs some supporting evidence!
That's 3 dimensional thinking.
If you read the bible from a technical POV God can be defined as an inter-dimensional being. Then it means (the part made in his image) we are as well. If we/soul are inter dimensional beings then we can exist on two different plains of existence occupying the same time and space.
I saw something on this in a documentary some where, can remember when or where.. But their is solid math that supports this theory.
A theory no different than any other based on math with no supporting physical evidence *cough higgs/boson
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 11:45 am
Your sci fi is running all over your fantasy.
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 11:52 am
(January 7, 2016 at 3:42 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: (January 7, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Drich Wrote: Here is a simple way to look at it: The Brain is just a receiver/OS that drives the hardware/Your bodily function. The soul is the you 'program' located in 'the cloud.'
It's like a cloud based App/Game. Your brain/body is like your phone. It is the interface to the app/cloud based Game that can be done anywhere.
So do squirrels have souls? How about finches? Or trout? Does the Ghost in the Machine metaphor extend to every other creature with a brain and complex nervous system? If not, why not?
Soul is defined as a living consciousness that was given as a gift from God to man. This gift is unique to man.
As paul identifies in our roman's study we are a dual natured being. The Soul is but one aspect of our existence. This body does indeed literally have a mind of it's own as well. (So too do you animals) We share control with a primitive instinct based creature who is (again according to Paul) a slave to sin. As such is doomed to die for it's sin.
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 11:58 am
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 12:06 pm
(January 8, 2016 at 11:44 am)Drich Wrote: That's 3 dimensional thinking.
If you read the bible from a technical POV God can be defined as an inter-dimensional being. Then it means (the part made in his image) we are as well. If we/soul are inter dimensional beings then we can exist on two different plains of existence occupying the same time and space.
I saw something on this in a documentary some where, can remember when or where.. But their is solid math that supports this theory.
A theory no different than any other based on math with no supporting physical evidence *cough higgs/boson
I think I'll take these in reverse order...
I'm pretty sure the higgs boson has been observed... higgs
Quote:Now scientists have succeeded in that observation, confirming that the particle whose discovery was announced at CERN on July 4th 2012, is indeed the long-sought-after Higgs boson.
Some documentary somewhere at some time had some supporting math? -fail
so we'll just read a centuries old book of fairy tails from a technical POV in lieu of actual current science? -fail
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RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 8, 2016 at 12:31 pm
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(January 8, 2016 at 12:06 pm)mediocrates Wrote: I think I'll take these in reverse order... I'll take these as they come.
Quote:I'm pretty sure the higgs boson has been observed... higgs
Fail- read the artical
They found leptons which have always been identifiable. The specific lepton they found, they claim is from a higgs boson decay... which in the article it self mentions their is a 1 in 10,000 chance of this being a false positive. Now to put that in perspective. their are hundreds of trillions of subatomic particles being created/destroyed by the accelerator every second. so 1 in 10,000 is a fairly high possibility of a false positive.
The scientists at cern are under alot of pressure to produce the higgs boson (after the promises they made and the billions spent) are you really so foolish to believe that a particle they themselves say decays so fast, their instruments can not detect it. so they must look for what it decays into with a 1 in 10,000 chance out of hundreds of trillion particals every second is tantamount to "Observing the Higgs/Boson."
Ah, no.. try again new sport.
Quote:Now scientists have succeeded in that observation, confirming that the particle whose discovery was announced at CERN on July 4th 2012, is indeed the long-sought-after Higgs boson.
Almost like they were being 'paid' to say that huh???
Quote:Some documentary somewhere at some time had some supporting math? -fail
so we'll just read a centuries old book of fairy tails from a technical POV in lieu of actual current science? -fail
then google it.. that All I did to chop you down to size. Don't be so lazy. If your going to refute someone do it properly!
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