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RE: If the existence of an enduring soul was proven...
November 25, 2018 at 12:22 pm
It wouldn't change because I still don't know which religion is right and why would that soul be connected to any religion in the first place.
For instance Scientologists believe that when you die your soul goes to the airport on the Venus where the Venusians fill it with lies and then return it in a box and throw it on earth somewhere in the waters around California. I mean is that any more credible than Muslim version of 72 virgins or Christian version?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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November 25, 2018 at 12:28 pm (This post was last modified: November 25, 2018 at 12:29 pm by Gawdzilla Sama.)
(November 25, 2018 at 12:20 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.

Hey Gawdzilla.

If imortal, unending (Heck, are they indestructible too?) exist THEN how do we harness any 'Free floating' or 'Spare ones' to power our light bulbs?

Beats the tits off me, Tonto.
(November 25, 2018 at 12:22 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It wouldn't change because I still don't know which religion is right and why would that soul be connected to any religion in the first place.
For instance Scientologists believe that when you die your soul goes to the airport on the Venus where the Venusians fill it with lies and then return it in a box and throw it on earth somewhere in the waters around California. I mean is that any more credible than Muslim version of 72 virgins or Christian version?

I didn't say a soul had to be connected to any religion. If they were then that would be a simpler question.
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November 25, 2018 at 12:31 pm
(November 25, 2018 at 12:16 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(November 25, 2018 at 12:15 pm)Shell B Wrote: It would really depend on where and how my soul endured. Given that the second part of the question is sort of separate, I'll say that knowing my soul lived forever in pain, boredom or some other dreadful way, I would live my life much more scared of death. If I knew it was good, I think I'd be happier toward the end of my life.

As for what I would create for my next life, it would be a sort of Heaven for me and my loved ones where we were all happy together. I wouldn't want an afterlife without them. They define life for me. I don't think that would change "after."

Good thoughts! Would/could such enduring souls congregate in the supposed afterlife or would we live on in solitary?

If the latter, it's already hell. If the former, life would lose a lot of its pain.
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November 25, 2018 at 12:39 pm
I'd be glad to see 66.6% of my ex-wives. I'd be glad to introduce them to #4.
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November 25, 2018 at 12:40 pm
No, I wouldn't change the way I live.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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November 25, 2018 at 12:45 pm
(November 25, 2018 at 12:40 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: No, I wouldn't change the way I live.

But can you vivisect a soul given it is already dead?
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November 25, 2018 at 12:46 pm
It wouldn't change the way that I live only the way that I kill.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: If the existence of an enduring soul was proven...
November 25, 2018 at 12:50 pm
(November 25, 2018 at 12:45 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(November 25, 2018 at 12:40 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: No, I wouldn't change the way I live.

But can you vivisect a soul given it is already dead?

Nope.

I'm working on a Ghostbusters type nuclear pack for that.

Being held up by red tape...

"Why do you want fissionable materials?"

"Who doesn't want fissionable materials?"

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RE: If the existence of an enduring soul was proven...
November 25, 2018 at 1:00 pm
At work.

(November 25, 2018 at 12:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(November 25, 2018 at 12:45 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: But can you vivisect a soul given it is already dead?

Nope.

I'm working on a Ghostbusters type nuclear pack for that.

Being held up by red tape...

"Why do you want fissionable materials?"

"Who doesn't want fissionable materials?"

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November 25, 2018 at 1:36 pm
(November 25, 2018 at 12:46 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It wouldn't change the way that I live only the way that I kill.

Me and you have to party! Bow Down
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