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As yet untitled matter proves soul video
🕑 Added 2023-06-29 22:41:10 +0000 UTCFor some reason I kept screwing up the videos this month, and made a lot of pointless work for myself, but whatever, they got done.
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Keith Levkoff
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.)
Ryusuta
Do you happen to remember the name of that book? It sounds vaguely familiar.
Timothyrharmon@gmail.com
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?
daniel schmitt
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.
Cuzn Ed
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.
Bullwinkle
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"
IronButterfly
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.
Bullwinkle
The colors we see are actually every color except for the one we see. What we is see light that is reflected.
Orchidseed
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'.
