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As yet untitled matter proves soul video

For some reason I kept screwing up the videos this month, and made a lot of pointless work for myself, but whatever, they got done.

As yet untitled matter proves soul video

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My first thought, right from the start, was that we have "matter, energy, space, and time - MEST". And, while three of those four are "immaterial" we have no problem whatsoever imagining, thinking about, or working with all of them. My second thought was that many previous "gods", like the Greek and Roman ones, were more like human superheroes, and quite human- like. I also have no problem "imagining" or "understanding" Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, or Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, or Bilbo Baggins... and even characters made up of blobs of clay like Gumby... or the interesting aliens on Star Trek... all of whom are no more "materially present or real" than his God... so apparently that isn't much of a problem for we humans at all. (I have no more trouble "imagining" his God than I did imagining that glowing sparkly intelligent cloud on that Star Trek episode... but that doesn't mean that either one of them really exists.)

Keith Levkoff

Do you happen to remember the name of that book? It sounds vaguely familiar.

Ryusuta

So a soul is an inaccessible, incorporeal, otherworldly intrusion into material reality? And that goes to heaven or hell when I die?

Timothyrharmon@gmail.com

We don't think there is energy?

Timothyrharmon@gmail.com

The supernatural isn't non-matter, the absence of matter is non-matter. And did he also forget energy exists, as another thing that is non-matter.

daniel schmitt

Oh my gods, this Brian guy is a special kind of painful. ‘Cause he’s SO earnest and “respectful” and “thoughtful”. And yet… hoo boy the thoughts he comes up with.

Cuzn Ed

he helped paint the bus but never understood the journey

Bullwinkle

our senses are easy to fool

Bullwinkle

I still like the grateful Dead

Bullwinkle

Hey it was 1972

Bullwinkle

Real LSD (looks away)

Bullwinkle

He looks like a nice enough person. But then he is selling snake oil. But then he is selling snake oil (not a typo) he is selling snake oil we have a song "I am a material girl' Cause we are living in a material world And I am a material girl You know that we are living in a material world And I am a material girl"

Bullwinkle

Your kids are going to rule the universe

Bullwinkle

I would bet Brian has never read a single one of the books behind him

Bullwinkle

blind atheist "meh"

Bullwinkle

I've brought this up before, but this guy's theory was originally inspired by Euclid's Elements and it's notion of "self evident truths" that are the basis of his geometry. These "self evident truths" are supposedly accessed by pure reasoning and not subject to the distorting effects of perceptions. These "self evident truths" (two points determine and line, its conjugate two lines determine a point, the parallel postulate, and so on), were elevated to the level of universals. It took two thousand years before mathematicians finally developed a non-euclidean geometry and placed it upon an axiomatic system. Although mathematicians (most notably Euler and Riemann) tried to deduce the parallel postulate from the other four postulate, they were ultimately unsuccessful. Euler even tried to demonstrate that, over large distances, space is not Euclidean but lacked the precision instruments required to detect a deviation. It wasn't until Einstein using arguments from the principle of relativity in gravitational fields to demonstrate the non-euclidean nature of spacetime over long distances. And please don't confuse what I'm saying with a rejection of the axiomatic method which has been so useful and successful in mathematics and physics.

IronButterfly

The colors we see are actually every color except for the one we see. What we is see light that is reflected.

Bullwinkle

So essentially... Essentialism 😛. This guy has caught up with ancient Greek philosophy from around two-and-a-half thousand years ago, and their invention of a 'soul'.

Orchidseed


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