It may be that Gabs it maybe, as I say i really don't know. On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 11:26:31 UTC, gabbydott wrote: > > Soul is the energy (or whatever you call that) that is bound/related to > the I/me. It is in a process of constant transformation and the scientists > are too slow to catch it and pin it down. That's the real problem. But not > mine. > > I am having great fun with my spelling checker and therefore attribute the > label 'old soul' to it! :) > > 2012/11/28 Lee Douglas <[email protected] <javascript:>> > >> 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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