Zinnic
7/8/2012 7:40:00 PM
On Jul 8, 2:25 pm, Immortalist <reanimater_2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 12:03 pm, Zinnic <zinnic....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 7, 8:55 pm, Fred M. McNeill <mmcne...@fuzzysys.com> wrote:
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> > > On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:13:28 -0600, Virgil <vir...@ligriv.com> wrote:
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> > > ><413b0731-d5c4-41cd-a512-f60f8bfef...@f9g2000pbd.googlegroups.com>,
> > > > casey <jgkjca...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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> > > >> On Jul 7, 11:04 pm, Don Martin <drdonmar...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > >> > On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 17:28:49 -0700 (PDT), elizabeth
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> > > >> > <elizabethfran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> > >Are you on drugs? Should you be?
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> > > >> > Lovely comment, Madam. My compliments.
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> > > >> Compliment someone who didn't read what was written?
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> > > >> CASEY WROTE:
> > > >> " I *would like* a rational political system making the laws."
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> > > >> Now where did I call what we have rational?????
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> > > >> It is what I *would like* not what we have!
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> > > >> Atheism is a rational conclusion in my opinion.
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> > > >> My interest is why otherwise intelligent people don't
> > > >> come to the same conclusion.
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> > > >> Our behavior is determined by the way our brains are wired.
> > > >> We begin with a working wired brain which changes with experience.
> > > >> The end product for some is a belief in god and for others a
> > > >> belief in there being no god.
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> > > >And in those who rely on objective physical evidence, neither.
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> > > >I do not know for sure that there are any gods and
> > > >I do not know for sure that there aren't any gods,
> > > >though I rather suspect the latter.
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> > > 'People' need their stories. Whatever the well practiced
> > > stories are, they become incorporated into the 'virtual
> > > reality' and hence experienced as 'reality'. All this in the
> > > context of many 'human' constraints. For one thing, 'humans'
> > > do not understand brains, hence a lot of folk talk takes place.
> > > For another, the place is weird, mysterious, and spooky, hence
> > > a lot of folk talk takes place. Many other constraints apply.
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> > > As far as "becoming a person". Probably depends on the practiced
> > > stories. Even 'personhood' is a form of folk talk.
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> > Is the "Personhood" of an individual already present, along with his
> > consciousness, in the sperm and ovum that produces him? :)
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> If the brain exists because it promotes the survival and
> multiplication of the genes that direct its assembly and the human
> mind is a device for survival and reproduction with reason being just
> one of its various techniques then personhood is probably just the
> activities of an assembled brain. Since the sperm and ovum contain the
> genes that will direct the assembly of the brain and the person is the
> activities of the brain then the person would not be in the and
> ovum but would instead result from those processes.
I guess my irony needs work but thanx anyway dear Immortalist.
Does my IPad know something about you that we do not know? Why else
does it keep correcting your nym to immoralist? :)