Hahah enlightend, ohh my! On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 11:14:57 UTC, RP Singh wrote: > > 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]<javascript:>> > 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. > >> >> > > >> >> > -- > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > -- > > > > > > >
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