Re: Reincarnation
Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 7:25 am
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If I can NOT even get just 'you' to enlighten me to how 'you' define the word 'soul', then what chances do you think I will get ANY one to enlighten me to what the 'traditional concept' of the word 'soul'?
The ONLY 'things' that leave one physical body and then goes on to inhabit another physical body ARE:
There is NO 'other' place. There is ONLY 'this One and ONLY place', called 'Life', 'Existence', or 'the Universe'. AND, the word 'higher' in regards to 'higher place' just refers to A BETTER, or MORE 'heaven-like place'. Which, AGAIN, CAN and WILL ONLY HAPPEN HERE, in this One and ONLY Place.
What WAS or IS WRONG WITH the DEFINITION that I PROVIDED 'you' EARLIER?
This is the point of the thread: I am saying that the soul, as an actual ontological entity, is, to my way of thinking, an impossibility. So I am not here to define such an entity, because I can't, I am inviting others to define it in such a way as to remove that apparent impossibility.
The soul in your definition was metaphorical, and not what is usually meant by the term, "soul". You described a phenomenon to which you gave the name, "soul", and as such, I agree with you that it cannot be refuted, but most people mean something different when they talk of the soul, especially religious or "spiritual" people, and it is their definition I am asking about in this thread.
I don't understand the question, nor what you said after it; sorry.Also, what do you FIX OTHER definitions TO, EXACTLY?
FIND OUT what 'that' IS, EXACTLY, then you WILL FIND the ACTUAL 'thing' that ALL definitions, including the definition of the 'soul word, ARE FIXED TO, EXACTLY.
I agree, thy 'Self' is learned over time.
BUT WHO HAS EVER SAID or STATED that 'the soul' is some so-called 'actual ontological entity'?
So, 'you' START a thread here, CLAIM 'reincarnating' IS IMPOSSIBLE and that 'some soul thing' could NOT do 'this', but then CLAIM that you can NOT even DEFINE the ACTUAL words that 'you' USE and CLAIM could NOT even be POSSIBLE.
Did 'you' SEE and/or NOTICED WHERE, EXACTLY, I DEFINED 'it' in A WAY so as to remove ALL DOUBT of IMPOSSIBILITY?
NO 'it' WAS NOT.
WHO CARE 'what' WAS meant by THAT term, or ANY OTHER term, FOR THAT MATTER?
Well 'those people', who live IN VERY OLDEN DAYS, to Me, OBVIOUSLY, can NOT MAKE 'their terms' AND 'their definitions' WORK, and STICK, TOGETHER.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:24 am You described a phenomenon to which you gave the name, "soul", and as such, I agree with you that it cannot be refuted, but most people mean something different when they talk of the soul, especially religious or "spiritual" people, and it is their definition I am asking about in this thread.
OKAY, and FAIR ENOUGH.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:24 amI don't understand the question, nor what you said after it; sorry.Also, what do you FIX OTHER definitions TO, EXACTLY?
FIND OUT what 'that' IS, EXACTLY, then you WILL FIND the ACTUAL 'thing' that ALL definitions, including the definition of the 'soul word, ARE FIXED TO, EXACTLY.![]()
AND, so-called "physicists" are just a particular group of human beings who have a particular way of LOOKING AT and SEEING 'things', which is OBVIOUSLY NOT the MOST Truest nor Rightest of WAYS.
There is ONLY One (True) 'Self'.
IF 'it', supposedly, does lead TO so-called 'interesting questions', then do you think that it would be a GOOD IDEA to PROVIDE those so-called 'interesting questions' here?
Your criticisms have been duly noted, Age, but I am not a qualified philosopher, I am just an ungifted amateur, and this is the kind of thing you must expect from me.Age wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 1:37 pmBUT WHO HAS EVER SAID or STATED that 'the soul' is some so-called 'actual ontological entity'?
And, what does 'ontological entity' here even MEAN or REFER TO, EXACTLY, to 'you'?
Do 'you' consider 'you' some so-called 'ontological entity'?
If yes, HOW and WHY, EXACTLY?
But if no, then what IS the DIFFERENCE between 'you' and 'some soul' WITHIN 'that body'?
So, 'you' START a thread here, CLAIM 'reincarnating' IS IMPOSSIBLE and that 'some soul thing' could NOT do 'this', but then CLAIM that you can NOT even DEFINE the ACTUAL words that 'you' USE and CLAIM could NOT even be POSSIBLE.Did 'you' SEE and/or NOTICED WHERE, EXACTLY, I DEFINED 'it' in A WAY so as to remove ALL DOUBT of IMPOSSIBILITY?NO 'it' WAS NOT.
MY DEFINITION is A LITERAL EXPLANATION of what ACTUALLY and IRREFUTABLY HAPPENS.
Which WILL BE DISCOVERED IF and WHEN ANY one EVERY QUESTIONED me OR CHALLENGED me OVER 'that DEFINITION' and 'CLAIM'.WHO CARE 'what' WAS meant by THAT term, or ANY OTHER term, FOR THAT MATTER?
OBVIOUSLY 'the terms' PREVIOUSLY USED, WITH 'their' VERY OLD and Inaccurate DEFINITIONS, NEVER FITTED TOGETHER, PERFECTLY, WITH EVERY 'thing' ELSE, like the way I USE and DEFINE 'terms' and 'words' HERE DOES, IRREFUTABLY, and ACTUALLY.
Well 'those people', who live IN VERY OLDEN DAYS, to Me, OBVIOUSLY, can NOT MAKE 'their terms' AND 'their definitions' WORK, and STICK, TOGETHER.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:24 am You described a phenomenon to which you gave the name, "soul", and as such, I agree with you that it cannot be refuted, but most people mean something different when they talk of the soul, especially religious or "spiritual" people, and it is their definition I am asking about in this thread.OKAY, and FAIR ENOUGH.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:24 amI don't understand the question, nor what you said after it; sorry.Also, what do you FIX OTHER definitions TO, EXACTLY?
FIND OUT what 'that' IS, EXACTLY, then you WILL FIND the ACTUAL 'thing' that ALL definitions, including the definition of the 'soul word, ARE FIXED TO, EXACTLY.![]()
But let us NOT FORGET that it was 'you' who SAID and WROTE here:
When I try to reduce down what such a soul could be, I find there is nothing left to fix a definition to.
Which MEANS, and Correct me IF I am Wrong here, that when you try to reduce down, or work out, what 'a soul' COULD BE, ACTUALLY, then you FIND that there IS absolutely NOTHING AT ALL 'left' to 'fix a definition to'.
So, I JUST ASKED you, What do you FIX your OTHER 'definitions' TO, EXACTLY?
What do you think or IMAGINE 'it' IS, EXACTLY, ABOUT THIS QUESTION, which you are NOT UNDERSTANDING here?
See, at the moment, I am NOT SURE HOW to ASK 'it' BETTER, nor MORE SUCCINCTLY, to you.
Oh, and by the way, I have ALREADY INFORMED 'you' of what 'it' IS that 'the soul' IS FIXED TO, EXACTLY.
And BECAUSE 'that' IS IRREFUTABLE, which went EXACTLY AGAINST what you were 'trying to' ACHIEVE here, and had SET OUT TO ACHIEVE here, 'you' just do NOT WANT to FIND absolutely ANY 'thing' to FIX a definition of the 'soul' word TO.
WHICH IS TOTALLY UNDERSTANDABLE CONSIDERING 'what' 'you' ACTUALLY SET OUT TO ACCOMPLISH here, with this thread.
But I do NOT expect ANY thing AT ALL from 'you', a human being, other than being (JUST) OPEN and Honest here.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 2:24 pmYour criticisms have been duly noted, Age, but I am not a qualified philosopher, I am just an ungifted amateur, and this is the kind of thing you must expect from me.Age wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 1:37 pmBUT WHO HAS EVER SAID or STATED that 'the soul' is some so-called 'actual ontological entity'?
And, what does 'ontological entity' here even MEAN or REFER TO, EXACTLY, to 'you'?
Do 'you' consider 'you' some so-called 'ontological entity'?
If yes, HOW and WHY, EXACTLY?
But if no, then what IS the DIFFERENCE between 'you' and 'some soul' WITHIN 'that body'?
So, 'you' START a thread here, CLAIM 'reincarnating' IS IMPOSSIBLE and that 'some soul thing' could NOT do 'this', but then CLAIM that you can NOT even DEFINE the ACTUAL words that 'you' USE and CLAIM could NOT even be POSSIBLE.Did 'you' SEE and/or NOTICED WHERE, EXACTLY, I DEFINED 'it' in A WAY so as to remove ALL DOUBT of IMPOSSIBILITY?NO 'it' WAS NOT.
MY DEFINITION is A LITERAL EXPLANATION of what ACTUALLY and IRREFUTABLY HAPPENS.
Which WILL BE DISCOVERED IF and WHEN ANY one EVERY QUESTIONED me OR CHALLENGED me OVER 'that DEFINITION' and 'CLAIM'.WHO CARE 'what' WAS meant by THAT term, or ANY OTHER term, FOR THAT MATTER?
OBVIOUSLY 'the terms' PREVIOUSLY USED, WITH 'their' VERY OLD and Inaccurate DEFINITIONS, NEVER FITTED TOGETHER, PERFECTLY, WITH EVERY 'thing' ELSE, like the way I USE and DEFINE 'terms' and 'words' HERE DOES, IRREFUTABLY, and ACTUALLY.
Well 'those people', who live IN VERY OLDEN DAYS, to Me, OBVIOUSLY, can NOT MAKE 'their terms' AND 'their definitions' WORK, and STICK, TOGETHER.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:24 am You described a phenomenon to which you gave the name, "soul", and as such, I agree with you that it cannot be refuted, but most people mean something different when they talk of the soul, especially religious or "spiritual" people, and it is their definition I am asking about in this thread.OKAY, and FAIR ENOUGH.
But let us NOT FORGET that it was 'you' who SAID and WROTE here:
When I try to reduce down what such a soul could be, I find there is nothing left to fix a definition to.
Which MEANS, and Correct me IF I am Wrong here, that when you try to reduce down, or work out, what 'a soul' COULD BE, ACTUALLY, then you FIND that there IS absolutely NOTHING AT ALL 'left' to 'fix a definition to'.
So, I JUST ASKED you, What do you FIX your OTHER 'definitions' TO, EXACTLY?
What do you think or IMAGINE 'it' IS, EXACTLY, ABOUT THIS QUESTION, which you are NOT UNDERSTANDING here?
See, at the moment, I am NOT SURE HOW to ASK 'it' BETTER, nor MORE SUCCINCTLY, to you.
Oh, and by the way, I have ALREADY INFORMED 'you' of what 'it' IS that 'the soul' IS FIXED TO, EXACTLY.
And BECAUSE 'that' IS IRREFUTABLE, which went EXACTLY AGAINST what you were 'trying to' ACHIEVE here, and had SET OUT TO ACHIEVE here, 'you' just do NOT WANT to FIND absolutely ANY 'thing' to FIX a definition of the 'soul' word TO.
WHICH IS TOTALLY UNDERSTANDABLE CONSIDERING 'what' 'you' ACTUALLY SET OUT TO ACCOMPLISH here, with this thread.
I thought I already did.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:24 am This is the point of the thread: I am saying that the soul, as an actual ontological entity, is, to my way of thinking, an impossibility. So I am not here to define such an entity, because I can't, I am inviting others to define it in such a way as to remove that apparent impossibility.
I'm not saying anyone did or didn't, I'm just explaining my intention.attofishpi wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 3:58 pmI thought I already did.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:24 am This is the point of the thread: I am saying that the soul, as an actual ontological entity, is, to my way of thinking, an impossibility. So I am not here to define such an entity, because I can't, I am inviting others to define it in such a way as to remove that apparent impossibility.
Well I haven't referred to any scientific authority before arriving at the conclusion that it isn't possible, so let's just say it doesn't seem possible to me. Even if I could concieve of its being theoretically possible, I have no reason to think it is remotely likely, so I'm not really left with the option of believing in souls. I mean, what do we observe in nature, in our lives, in the universe at large, that suggests, or makes us think, that there is this thing that is the soul? What question is there to which the only answer could be, the soul?Not sure why you consider such a concept as an impossibility in the nature of matter, which we are comprised of, basically a shit load of energy within the a shit load of energy (our environment) if you consider that there is an intelligent at the fundamental sub-atomic nature to what we perceive as REAL_IT_Y.
Concepts are fixed objects. They are 'frozen thought' in time and space duality, the dream of separation where there is none, in the realm of language only within the illusion of mentation aka the activity of the apparent brain mind mechanism.attofishpi wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 3:58 pmI thought I already did.Harbal wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 10:24 am This is the point of the thread: I am saying that the soul, as an actual ontological entity, is, to my way of thinking, an impossibility. So I am not here to define such an entity, because I can't, I am inviting others to define it in such a way as to remove that apparent impossibility.
Not sure why you consider such a concept as an impossibility in the nature of matter, which we are comprised of, basically a shit load of energy within the a shit load of energy (our environment) if you consider that there is an intelligent at the fundamental sub-atomic nature to what we perceive as REAL_IT_Y.