Re: Mind's Eye Re: Instinct for survival

Lee , I am glad that you are an enlightened person. To say that there
is God is theistic but to say ' I am God ' is not.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Lee Douglas <leerevdouglas@gmail.com> wrote:
> That is indeed what I belive, all that I am is in my brain, when that goes
> so do I. What the soul may be, if I have one, I really don't know.
>
> On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:46:22 UTC, RP Singh wrote:
>>
>> Lee, do you believe that you are this body and nothing separate from
>> it , because if you don't then you haven't accepted death.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Lee Douglas <leerev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You see RP sometimes I think you make perfect sense but mostly your
>> > insistance on generalising winds me up no end. Of course this does not
>> > explain Athiests, or my own stance on death, or for that matter lots of
>> > people. We are of course all differant with differant subjective ways of
>> > seeing things and viewing life. Myself being a Theist I'm still unsure
>> > as
>> > to the existance of a Soul, I mean I really don't know yet if I belive
>> > such
>> > a thing exists. My own reasons for beliving in creative diety are many
>> > and
>> > complex. Belife simply cannot be stripped down to pithey sounding short
>> > sentances that apply to all humans, because clearly they do not apply to
>> > all
>> > humans.
>> >
>> > On another subject I have just posted that I have no fear of death and
>> > have
>> > accepted that it may come at any time. Perhaps then you do not realise
>> > how
>> > insulting it is to be called a liar. Or perhaps i'm too involved with
>> > semantics and concentrate more on your choice of words than the message,
>> > ahhh but how else is one to treat written communication? I must trust
>> > that
>> > the words you use, you have choosen to portay your meaning. So when you
>> > say
>> > 'Yet we do not accept it...' I must belive that this is exactly what you
>> > mean to say, in effect you reduce me, and all other individuals to a
>> > mass
>> > of humainity that follw the same rules.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:05:19 UTC, RP Singh wrote:
>> >>
>> >> There is death all around us and so we cannot fail to see it , yet we
>> >> do not accept it and so we have developed an idea of souls. Our belief
>> >> in after-life or re-births is our insistence on immortality as we find
>> >> it hard to accept that we will go into a permanent oblivion , never to
>> >> return.The instinct for survival makes us readily accept these notions
>> >> of immortality as our intelligence is also coloured by our instincts.
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Lee Douglas <leerev...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Heh where do you find these little sayings of yours RP. Nope I don't
>> >> > agree
>> >> > this is true .
>> >> >
>> >> > Personaly I have spent some years questioning the attitude to life
>> >> > and
>> >> > death
>> >> > that we have. It seems that for most life in and of itself is kinda
>> >> > sacred,
>> >> > or at least we act like it is. I'm not sure on this though. Dawin
>> >> > shows us
>> >> > that outside of our species death is a part of life and comes all too
>> >> > easily. So I must say that life in and of itself is nothing special.
>> >> > Then
>> >> > you must mean life as we humans percive it. However, I am now fully
>> >> > resigend to my own death and it will come when it does, and this no
>> >> > longer
>> >> > holds any fear for me.
>> >> >
>> >> > My own desires to live to be at least 400 years old though is by now
>> >> > widely
>> >> > reported here, and in other places. This is not for the reasons you
>> >> > highlight above but sheer couriosity. We are I feel at the cusp of
>> >> > enourmous change, over the next few hundred years we as a species are
>> >> > about
>> >> > to change in so many ways, and I want to see it.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 07:28:21 UTC, RP Singh wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Attachment to life is the cause of the desire for immortality and
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> readiness to believe in an after-life or re-birth. It is an
>> >> >> off-shoot
>> >> >> of the
>> >> >> instinct for survival.
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