Do We Have a Soul?

[L7Cz]

More Fun with Quotes from Iacchus...

Why?

Because I don't understand the distinction between a "dead corpse" and any other kind. You apparently see such a distinction. I would appreciate knowing the difference. And a near death experience, while anecdotal in nature, by definition would happen near death, wouldn't it? If death is defined by absence of brain activity, then a near death experience would have to be near the time one was pronounced brain dead. So you have one term being part of the definition of the other term, but apparently there is something significant about the correlation. What is the significance?

I bet you really think you're being sneaky now aren't you? Evidence? Unfortunately the only evidence I have exists in the space between my ears.

No sneaky intent whatsoever. I speak clearly and use generally accepted definitions of the words I employ. If you have no evidence, then all you have is anecdotes. Stories. Tales. Fables. Unintentional (perhaps) falsehoods. You may believe as strongly as you possibly can, but unless it is a demonstrable, repeatable, verifiable evidentiary fact, you have no evidence.

Oh come on now, you mean to tell me you don't even have a clue?

A clue about what? The location of the soul's "attachment" to the body? No, I don't have a clue about that. The part of the human body that extends into another world? No, I don't have a clue about that. Or the evidence of the absence of a soul? No, I don't have a clue about that. Please point me to the clues.

Well, I can see that you already have it all figured out. Thanks for playing.

But I'm serious. Serious and disciplined. You are deliberately being obtuse.

And there are four more requests for clarification that you have conveniently ignored.

Let me see if I have the facts straight. You have a notion that you have a soul that travels without the physical presence of the body to which it is purportedly attached (how and where it is attached you will not specify), and returns. You say that you have evidence of its existence and its travelling, but the evidence consists entirely of anecdotes related by you about things that supposedly happened in places or spaces not of this world. You attempt to dismiss an honest questioner with a flip response, and we in this forum are supposed to take you seriously and not pick more holes in your swiss-cheese philosophy.

Does that summarize it correctly?

 

[Iacchus]

You attempt to dismiss an honest questioner with a flip response, and we in this forum are supposed to take you seriously and not pick more holes in your swiss-cheese philosophy.

Excuse me?

Does that summarize it correctly?

What, that you don't realize you just contradicted yourself?

 

[Piscivore]

If I don't read, then how am I able to comprehend what you've just said and understand that you're full of crap? Indeed, how is it that I can even write about it and make you understand? Just another one of those flukes I suppose, eh?

I didn't say you couldn't read, I said you don't read, meaning for your personal edification. Everyone (barring you it seems) understood that.

Are you denying you said what I claim you did? I don't want to have to do the search.

 

[Iacchus]

I didn't say you couldn't read, I said you don't read, meaning for your personal edification. Everyone (barring you it seems) understood that.

Are you denying you said what I claim you did? I don't want to have to do the search.

Well, I suppose I could stop reading any of your posts -- not that they had much value in the first place -- if that'll make you happy?

 

[Piscivore]

Well, I suppose I could stop reading any of your posts -- not that they had much value in the first place -- if that'll make you happy?

I do not claim there is any value in anything I post.

And my happiness isn't conditional upon anything you do. Make yourself happy. If ignorance is bliss to you, then good for you. I doubt you'll peddle it to anyone here, though it is entertaining to see you try.

I did once question if your path was indeed making you happy, but as I recall, you diverted and obfuscated instead of answering. Want to give it another go?

Iacchus, are you satisfied with the life your beliefs have won you?

 

[arthwollipot]

Except for those who have experienced it and, the very souls which live there of course.

In the case of those who have experienced it, we have only their word to go on, and in the case of the souls who live there we don't even have that. How is this claim, then, not vacuous regardless of your viewpoint?

 

[Iacchus]

Iacchus, are you satisfied with the life your beliefs have won you?

At times, yes I have. At other times, no. Regardless, this life is merely a "temporary" condition. Therefore I rarely look at it in terms of what I've gained or lossed, and see no point in dwelling on it. In many ways I'm a puny little nothing. So what?

 

[BillyJoe]

Iacchus,

I am your Saviour!

In many ways I'm a puny little nothing.

I am going to predict the someone will use this in their sig. It is irresistable. Now, as a result of my prediction, no one is actually going to use it. It would be just falling in line with a prediction.

So there....

I am your Saviour!

regards,
BillyJoe
(Hey, off your knees Iacchus, no need to genuflect.)

 

[Iacchus]

Until the next res-erection then huh?