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| Posted 10/24/2002 6:01 PM (GMT -6) |   | with the close I had died in...what is up with that?
Seriously though, I did not die; I never was in any danger yesterday--except when I turned the television on and saw Jerry Springer, man that show is mind numbing!
My question is: Do we have what the ancients believed to be, a soul; the ghost in the machine; or what Daniel C. Dennett calls "Cartesian Theatere?" Has modern psychology disproven the need to posit in man a soul that will go on living as our flesh rots and fades into dust, or in some cases, burns (cremation style)? Looking at the facts, it does seem that the notion of mind as matter, being the only thing that animates us, a plausible notion. I have a friend tell me that there is a biblical case against the notion of a dualistic personality, and that we really are going to lie as a pile of dust in our graves until the Messiah returns. What do y'all think?
Blessings,
Pablo
"The Creator's power (by which I mean the capacity to influence the world) is made manifest paradoxically in the vulnerable defenselessness of crucified man."
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BJS
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| Posted 10/24/2002 6:18 PM (GMT -6) | | Check out Chapter 5 of Across the Spectrum.
Brett
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