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Originally Posted by tore
A soul can't be seen, has never been measured,...
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That is true. I'm only guessing, to the ancient philosophers, things could be divided as seen and unseen, abstract and concrete, tangible and intangible, whatever nomenclature they used. The "body" is something tangilbe, you can use your five senses to detect it, but "soul" is something that can not be detected by the five senses. [I won't go into detail about the soul.] But there is a lot in science that has yet to be seen yet can be infered. What other abstract ideas would you say also need scientific approval for there existence? If you are going to approach it in a scientific way I wouldn't dismiss it just on the grounds it can be seen.
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Originally Posted by tore
we don't know of anything that could create souls and if souls are true, we don't know anything about how they behave - like are they eternal? Are they somehow recycled? Do they occupy more than one body throughout their existence? Do they go to a heaven or hell?
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Those questions are answers by...
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Originally Posted by tore
The point is not they're a figment of people's imagination, although it could be. It's that discussing aggressively concepts which we can't prove exist outside fantasy is kind of futile.  |
strawmanning, I was discussing things passively
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Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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