Good post, Tal.
Now if I can start thinking of jerks like aPAULing Martin, Lyin Brian Bullroney, etc. as being sweet, thoughtful, loving, and kind, they might actually acquire a soul. lol
No. No part of your personality will survive the death of your body.Does the soul survive after death ?
Nowhere. There's no such thing as a soul in the usual meaning of the word, it has no reality outside the realm of ideas, there's no good evidence it's anything more than a fiction. And there's no good evidence there's a place for it to go anyway.If so / if not so where does it go ?
Dexter never had a soul
Right. Nobody else has ever had one either, it's an invention of human wishful thinking, a non-entity. Think about it: a non-physical part of your personality, capable of perception without sense organs, capable of self-awareness and volition without a brain, and thus without a mind... Mystic nonsense.Dexter never had a soul
Without going into some religious context here. Believing in only what you see is rediculous narrow minded. To me that too doesn't make sense. The only thing that remains true in the end is we are sure of nothing but everything can be possible.Right. Nobody else has ever had one either, it's an invention of human wishful thinking, a non-entity. Think about it: a non-physical part of your personality, capable of perception without sense organs, capable of self-awareness and volition without a brain, and thus without a mind... Mystic nonsense.
On the contrary, one should accept a claim as true only when there's sufficient evidence to justify the claim. The default rational position is to doubt all claims until the evidence is in.Believing in only what you see is rediculous narrow minded.
No, that wasn't reality, that was a delusion based on an incorrect understanding of insufficient evidence, which is pretty much my point here. Better to concede you don't know than to make it up.Reality in the past was that the earth was flat, just look how far we travelled with that perception
What's the point of living this if the meaning is assigned by some deity and nobody can claim to understand it because of the presumed mysterious and incomprehensible nature of the deity? We make our own meanings.Whats the point of living this if it has no meaning?