Grace said:
Evo et al,
You are not your body. Your soul is that which occupies your body. A soul is what is called life. It is your essence. It is that which allows you to think. If one were to be in a coma, yet still being kept alive, by means of medical machinery, simply means that the soul has left the body. Should the body die, and then the soul has decided to no longer continue in that form. It will move to another dimension. Your body is merely a house for your soul, a package, if you will. Evidence of this can easily be obtained by dying, if you must have physical evidence.
There is plenty of literature that covers this particular subject; one only needs to have the will to find it. If one truly seeks an answer, it will be made available. It is ones decision, whether or not to recognize it when it appears.
Too much time is wasted on arguing over issues that are irrelevant to one's existence. Quieting the mind, and listening to the inner voice that flows within all of us, can be quite helpful. It is difficult to do, however. There's too much noise going on around us, which clutters the mind. Thoughts are constantly entering every second of our conscience wake.
Okay, I'm carrying on here, but why does one come here? Is it because of boredom? To get away from the everyday grind? Or argue about the existence of a soul?
I'd like to take this time to rant about the failure of the education system to produce people with anything resembling the ability for scientific thought.
A good scientist is someone who is not afraid to doubt. Someone who accepts nothing simply because he was told to, even if god himself came down and said it.
A scientist is someone who is always looking to understand what he sees around him, never accepting a handwaving argument, or some rhetoritician's metaphysical spiel, regardless of how "logical" it may seem without evidence.
Richard Feynman said:
Science is: "the result of discovery that is worthwhile rechecking by direct experience and not trusting the race experience of the past"
Which is to say that we do not accept what those who went before us tell us simply because they tell us. No we go out and see it for ourselves.
Then consider the religious mindset, which so thoroughly permeates our culture, and i don't just mean christianity, i mean all brands of superstition. That mind, is an obedient mind it does what it is told by its master, be it god, nature, or whatever. It is a slave mind, herd animal mentality.
Just look at all the people, even here, who butcher science for their own purposes. IN politics too. Its ridiculous. The average person is unable to think scientifically. To think in the pattern that everything is false until reasonably shown to be true, not by hand waving arguments, but by concrete evidence, and proof derived from that evidence. By one's own experience. You don't assume something is true until that something is necessary to explain the phenomenon you see.
A soul is not necessary. There is no way to prove that a soul is necessary for us to live. Therefore, the scientific conclusion is that unless evidence of its existence is presented, it does not exist, because there is no need for it too. We don't need a soul to explain anything. WE don't need god to explain anything. Does that mean they don't exist, no. But there is no need for them(psychological insecurity of unscientific minds aside), no evidence for them, no reason for them.
In this country at least, public educations are basically mandatory to a certain age. And in my experience i have met, a few good professors aside (all with science degrees) i ahve not met a single person who was capable of scientific thought. This is the most important thing for the education system to instill, because a scientific mind insists upon learning. Learning and analysis are hard-wired into the most basic thought processes. They bemoan the failure of the schools on test scores, they need to stop teaching test material and start showing students how to think scientifically. UNfortunately most teachers are poorly qualified at best, and i feel there is little hope.
This message brought to you by an angry jaded misanthrope. Thank you for reading.
