Lee , I am glad that you are an enlightened person. To say that there is God is theistic but to say ' I am God ' is not.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > That is indeed what I belive, all that I am is in my brain, when that goes > so do I. What the soul may be, if I have one, I really don't know. > > On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:46:22 UTC, RP Singh wrote: >> >> Lee, do you believe that you are this body and nothing separate from >> it , because if you don't then you haven't accepted death. >> >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: >> > You see RP sometimes I think you make perfect sense but mostly your >> > insistance on generalising winds me up no end. Of course this does not >> > explain Athiests, or my own stance on death, or for that matter lots of >> > people. We are of course all differant with differant subjective ways of >> > seeing things and viewing life. Myself being a Theist I'm still unsure >> > as >> > to the existance of a Soul, I mean I really don't know yet if I belive >> > such >> > a thing exists. My own reasons for beliving in creative diety are many >> > and >> > complex. Belife simply cannot be stripped down to pithey sounding short >> > sentances that apply to all humans, because clearly they do not apply to >> > all >> > humans. >> > >> > On another subject I have just posted that I have no fear of death and >> > have >> > accepted that it may come at any time. Perhaps then you do not realise >> > how >> > insulting it is to be called a liar. Or perhaps i'm too involved with >> > semantics and concentrate more on your choice of words than the message, >> > ahhh but how else is one to treat written communication? I must trust >> > that >> > the words you use, you have choosen to portay your meaning. So when you >> > say >> > 'Yet we do not accept it...' I must belive that this is exactly what you >> > mean to say, in effect you reduce me, and all other individuals to a >> > mass >> > of humainity that follw the same rules. >> > >> > >> > On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:05:19 UTC, RP Singh wrote: >> >> >> >> There is death all around us and so we cannot fail to see it , yet we >> >> do not accept it and so we have developed an idea of souls. Our belief >> >> in after-life or re-births is our insistence on immortality as we find >> >> it hard to accept that we will go into a permanent oblivion , never to >> >> return.The instinct for survival makes us readily accept these notions >> >> of immortality as our intelligence is also coloured by our instincts. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > Heh where do you find these little sayings of yours RP. Nope I don't >> >> > agree >> >> > this is true . >> >> > >> >> > Personaly I have spent some years questioning the attitude to life >> >> > and >> >> > death >> >> > that we have. It seems that for most life in and of itself is kinda >> >> > sacred, >> >> > or at least we act like it is. I'm not sure on this though. Dawin >> >> > shows us >> >> > that outside of our species death is a part of life and comes all too >> >> > easily. So I must say that life in and of itself is nothing special. >> >> > Then >> >> > you must mean life as we humans percive it. However, I am now fully >> >> > resigend to my own death and it will come when it does, and this no >> >> > longer >> >> > holds any fear for me. >> >> > >> >> > My own desires to live to be at least 400 years old though is by now >> >> > widely >> >> > reported here, and in other places. This is not for the reasons you >> >> > highlight above but sheer couriosity. We are I feel at the cusp of >> >> > enourmous change, over the next few hundred years we as a species are >> >> > about >> >> > to change in so many ways, and I want to see it. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 07:28:21 UTC, RP Singh wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Attachment to life is the cause of the desire for immortality and >> >> >> the >> >> >> readiness to believe in an after-life or re-birth. It is an >> >> >> off-shoot >> >> >> of the >> >> >> instinct for survival. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > >> > > > -- > > > --
