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Post by Aj_June on Dec 7, 2018 13:17:32 GMT
This is one f-cking hilarious thread. New age thinking is for imbeciles. mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. From the Latin "mens," a fact unknown to that honest shoe seller, who, observing that his learned competitor over the way had displayed the motto "mens conscia recti" emblazoned his shop front with the words "Men's Women's and Children's conscia recti." -Ambrose Bierce The new age people believe that there are minds floating everywhere (even outside of body) and that when people die their minds or consciousness or whatever mechanism we have that separates us from non-living things keeps alive and shifts to either another host through rebirth or keeps floating around on another plane of "consciousness". Well, it's okay if you have such an "awareness" of yourself. I have personally never had such an awareness. The new age preachers would be worried about how I don't care about shedding the delusion that is trapping me here in this duality.
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Post by general313 on Dec 7, 2018 15:52:23 GMT
There is zero evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. There's overwhelming evidence that damage to the brain diminishes the mind. 1. There is also zero evidence that mind doesn't exist beyond the body. Your life and state of being and awareness is all proof you really need. Just look at the phenomena all around you.
2. The mind channels through our brains and also through every other facet of our being as well. It is not just compartmentalized within the brain. How can it be, when the mind is intangible and an abstract and what it all is? Until it is proven that mind is material matter—which is impossible—then I don't get for what purpose you pursue the nature of science in the universe that you do, when you place up barriers and walls before yourselves. If it is all for naught, what is the point then?
1. Yes, everything I can see is made of atoms. 2. Why does whether everything is material or some things are immaterial change whether "it is all for naught"? Why should dreaming be more important than being awake?
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