Is "mind" conceiveable seperate from "body"?
No. Let me be clear: with every thought, you are embodied-- you have a perspective, a biological relation to knowledge-- a belief, value or desire that compels you, a hunger or insatiability that drives you, an animal involuntariness. You act on custom and instinct, and there is no other sourse for an actitivity. The mind is a form of action-- it's not even that we are never committed to an action by a logical deduction by reason alone; the very construction of any argument as such isn't arrived at by reason but passion. The mind has no essence apart from serving biological desire.
Removing, by abstraction, each limb from your body until you imagine yourself in complete distinction to those removed parts is an erroneous kind of imagination. It is much like imagining the 100-sided chiliagon, which one can form as an image of an icon, but not a reliable image-- likewise, we cannot form any reliable image of "what it would be like" to be without a body, without any sensation. And where possible, in sensory deprivation chambers &c., there are no clear cases where the mind wanders off without reference to what has been sensed, or could be sensed. The involvement of the body is so intimate that we cannot conceive of ourselves thinking in languages unbound by time, or in bodies that aren't proportionately human, even God appears in the figure of a man. Our projections into the infinite are in reference to our immanent finitude. The conceivability of these imaginings are cloudy at best, and far from conceivable, let alone possible.
2007-03-01 02:03:56
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answered by Anonymous
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I think you hit the nail on the head. I believe that each life we live is like a course in college, that our true selves exist on the other side existing in a perfect world free to travel the universe at the speed of thought. yet we need to prefect our souls so we plan these lives on which ever planet has the best way to offer the lesson we need to learn. Like when we decide wether to take the beginner, intermediate or advanced course here. And which school to go through. The harder the life the faster you prefect. I also believe earth to be the hardest course so take a pat on the back everyone your trying your best.
2007-03-08 08:26:40
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answered by tarakootenay 3
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Don't think it will be in another galaxy, even though you would think that there is so much space, it has to be used for something. It is being used for something, expanding space, needed for our solar system to survive.
The better place will be a spiritual home, but how that will exist I have only one idea. The universe as we know it will start to retract like a vacuum and implode, creating the better place. Old idea, I know, but it makes sense that space cannot expand forever, and the logical opposite is to retract.
2007-03-09 01:30:33
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answered by ringolarry 6
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Sure, keep on dreaming.
No one seems to have realized, that reincarnation which is supposed to work even inter species and logically speaking between different solar systems, has not produced previous life memories of such lives. Only human lives on earth have ever been mentioned. Must be significant!
Isn't imagination and fantasy interesting... ;-)
2007-03-01 01:45:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Could it be that the better place is not a physical location but an overall state of mind. A better place could mean that you no longer have to worry and deal with the day to day life. You are just a ball of energy no longer embodied and can basically do whatever or go wherever you choose. To me that sounds like a better place.
2007-03-06 11:51:14
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answered by I Know, I Know 4
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Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.
While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.
Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.
I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.
I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.
I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.
Your brother don
2007-03-01 03:41:38
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answered by Anonymous
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I sometimes get the feeling that we are in a parrellel universe and die lots of times in life but just flit back and forth our other lives , I also believe in reincarnation too, sometimes I just spend hours daydreaming about all these possibilities its quite comforting
2007-03-01 01:41:58
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answered by Anonymous
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We have no reason to believe that life exists in the remainder of creation...however life does exist here and how it got here can only be answered by a Divine creator who fashioned its complexities by his own power. The World and this universe functions in exacting order--man corrupts it, but still order is maintained. When a person dies, they will stand before their creator, God (Revelation 20), specifically The Lord Jesus himself (John 5:22). Man is a sinner and God chose to redeem man by the sacrifice of his son for the penalty brought by our sin. "He became sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." the innocent son of God took our place in judgment so that if we believe on him for salvation, we will be born again into the family of God and have eternal life with him (Revelation 21:1 -5)
2007-03-08 07:04:52
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answered by james s 1
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survey says, your a Morman. There is a whole faith based on that concept. Good luck my friend, you want to try your hand in scientology, or perhaps your own sect. NEVER MIND, THAT IS TOO SCARY FOR WORDS. Go into movies, and leave the innocents alone.
hahahaaa
That question has seriously been up in the air for years. When it comes down let us know.
2007-03-08 22:33:14
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answered by Heero Yui 3
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Yo mama so gruesome, even Freddy Krueger get nightmares about her Yo mama so undesirable, she pass to KFC to lick human beings hands. Yo mama became such an gruesome toddler which her moms and dads had to feed her with a slingshot. i'm able to't imagine of truly reliable ones at present..
2016-12-05 02:32:53
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answered by Anonymous
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