So? What's the point? Actually, I find it easy to assert that everything we know, we must first believe. And that has nothing to to with truth.
WC --- On Thu, 11/20/08, GEOFF CREALOCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: GEOFF CREALOCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Proust review: Whitman > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 10:01 PM > William wrote: "if there is a soul that is co-existent > with the body or at > one with it, then we > need to know the extension of the body, or the soul." > I would suggest: If we believe that there is a soul > co-existent with the > body or at one with it, then we need to consider what else > we believe. > Geoff C > > > > > >From: William Conger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: Proust review: Whitman > >Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:21:01 -0800 (PST) > > > >I want to wait until others read the book, or the first > chapter. I;m not > >for skipping chapters because that suggests a apriori > judgemnt. > > > >Regarding the body/mind, if the mind is embodied, then > what are the limits > >of the body? Skin surface in? Do we include bodily > fluids and wastes as > >part of the body? Do we include speech? Do we include > things thrown from > >the body? Where does the body begin and end? These may > seem like > >ridiculous questions but if there is a soul that is > co-existent with the > >body or at one with it, then we need to know the > extension of the body, or > >the soul. > > > >WC > > > > > >--- On Thu, 11/20/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: Proust review: Whitman > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [email protected] > > > Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 6:14 PM > > > In a message dated 11/20/08 10:37:37 AM, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > > > > Is anyone else interested in pursuing a > discussion of > > > "Proust Was a > > > > Neuroscientist"? Shall we postpone the > discussion > > > for a few days? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The next one is pretty farfetched-George > Eliot's > > > writing prefigures the > > > brain replacing its own cells all its life, > thus > > > establishing human freedom. > > > Perhaps we could skip to the chapter on Proust? > > > Kate Sullivan > > > > > > > > > ************** > > > One site has it all. Your email accounts, your > > > social networks, and the things you love. Try the > new > > > AOL.com > > > > >today!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212962939x1200825291/aol?redi > > > r=http://www.aol.com/ > > > > ?optin=new-dp%26icid=aolcom40vanity%26ncid=emlcntaolcom00000001)
