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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19273375 - 12/14/13 03:23 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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From which dictionary are you finding your definition of spiritual?

Under Merriam-webster:
1 - of, relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit
2a - of or relating to sacred matters
b - ecclesiastical rather than lay or temporal
3 - concerned with religious values
4 - related or joined in spirit
5a - of or relating to supernatural beings or phenomena
b - of, relating to, or involving spiritualism

The theoretical person's beliefs are completely spiritual, fitting definitions 1-4, especially number 1.
The spirit's first definition by Merriam-Webster is an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms.
This completely supports the example belief I gave as one that is spiritual and has direct correspondence with physical reality as verified by science.




A dictionary cannot express the ineffable pertaining to a realm to which it doesn't belong. Q.E.D.

At best it renders something so vague it's meaningless, bound by it's own constructs, which although practical for it's application, has no external relevance.  The same is true of science.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19273402 - 12/14/13 03:52 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Nothing which is ineffable can be expressed linguistically.
That is its very definition.
What would it matter the realm it belonged to?
Anything ineffable can't be communicated by language, thus definition and the dictionary are null.
I have however provided the definition of spiritual, and can for physical if you'd like, so these things are obviously not ineffable.

Do you perhaps mean that a dictionary cannot be applied to the physical realm?
It can and it does apply to the physical realm, which is why the words you say can be interpreted and comprehended by other English speakers.
These would be sound vibrations traveling from your throat, through the air, meeting tiny bones in another person's ear, converted to electrical impulses and sent to along the auditory nerve to your brain.
This is a series of physical events which have no purpose without defining them, lest you find great value in the park of a dog or a baby's gibberish.

Or did you mean it can't be applied to the spiritual realm?
This is a bible dictionary http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/
It defines words which relate to the primary religious text of Christianity.
It is spiritual because 2a - it is of or relating to sacred matters, and 3 - is concerned with religious values.
This dictionary has just been expressed using another dictionary's definition to describe it.

So is there a reason that you are arguing statements for which you have provided no evidence?


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19273407 - 12/14/13 03:56 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Wordpicking will not help us here.
It's obvious, at least for me, that spiritually worshipping the sun and scientifically knowing about its life-giving properties are two sides of the same coin.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19273426 - 12/14/13 04:15 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Your edit doesn't make sense either.

How can a dictionary render something so vague that it's meaningless?
It provides the full meaning (ie definition) of involved words.
This is giving meaning, and we apply this meaning and further it by using words to communicate.

The universe in itself is bound by its own constructs, however this doesn't render it meaningless.
If anything it builds upon its own legitimacy by continuing to follow the physics and chemistry which it created for itself and is bound/defined by.

No external relevance?
A dictionary's application is what gives it external relevance.
Previous to that it is simply a book or an electronic reading with words and their meaning.
The definitions within it are provided by experts in the English language (in the situation of it being an English dictionary) and used by nonexperts to better comprehend English, these are external to English expertise.

Perhaps your inferred use of external was referring to outside of use in the mind.
I could use paper within the dictionary to light a fire and stay warm, or if it was electronic I could shut it off, conserving energy.
I could hit someone who is annoying me with the dictionary.
I could use its pages as toilet paper.
These are actions involving a dictionary which have use other than mentally, and other than the original intent of its creators.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: HalfLight]
    #19273443 - 12/14/13 04:29 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

No definition listed pertains to spirit adhering to the laws of the physical as an exclusive entity regardless if it's part of a necessary compound of life.


Edited by Duncan Rowhl (12/14/13 08:07 AM)


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19273901 - 12/14/13 09:40 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:lolwut:
The first definition of spirit from Merriam-Webster which I gave earlier: an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms.
So spirit by definition would adhere to the laws of the physical, seeing as no physical organisms avoid the laws of physics.
How is whether or not it's an "exclusive entity" in any form relevant?


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: HalfLight]
    #19273921 - 12/14/13 09:45 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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TryinToTrip said:
Well that's not true.
What if someone worships the sun because it provides them and everything around them with life?
They do physically worship the sun, and the sun's light and heat provide the energy which all living things on Earth feed off of.
Science verifies the physical reality, and the theoretical person's spirituality coincides with it.





I approve of Sun worship. :nicesmile:


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Icelander]
    #19273943 - 12/14/13 09:52 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I don't practice it or know anyone who does, but it seems more legitimate than worship of deities in most organized religions to me :lol:


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: HalfLight] * 1
    #19274179 - 12/14/13 10:55 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I practice it.  I have a lounge chair alter with a thick cushion and I stretch out on that sucker with some good tunes on sunny days and commune with the glory.  :stonesun:  :mjk:  :awegroove:


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: HalfLight]
    #19274405 - 12/14/13 11:47 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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So spirit by definition would adhere to the laws of the physical, seeing as no physical organisms avoid the laws of physics.





Spirit is not a physical organism.

It's an underlying, dormant essence that operates outside of the parameters of physical science, hence why debate or study of its existence is futile.

Thus, there's nothing to even suggest that we do carry a spirit inside of us.  It might simply be a part of us that rides in tandem with our selves on another channel to which our minds are melded.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19274497 - 12/14/13 12:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Duncan Rowhl said:
Thus, there's nothing to even suggest that we do carry a spirit inside of us.  It might simply be a part of us that rides in tandem with our selves on another channel to which our minds are melded.



The idea of the paranormal and the supernatural is ridiculous precisely because it assumes an "other" that is not merely a projection of our longings and desires.

In my opinion, of course.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19274524 - 12/14/13 12:14 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'm not saying a spirit is a physical organism.
Have you truly avoided reading the definition I provided this many times?
Spirit: An animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms
It isn't a physical life form, nor have I argued it to be so.
I am saying it is a source which provides life to living beings.

From what expert do you cite this definition?
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It's an underlying, dormant essence that operates outside of the parameters of physical science, hence why debate or study of its existence is futile.



It completely contradicts mine, and a google search quoting it rendered a lack of results, verifiable or not.

I consider my brain to be my spirit.
The brain is personally spiritual to me in that electric signals between neurons and chemical reception within it create what I experience as joy, dismay, love, hatred, fear, etc
It also fits the official definition of spirit by being both an animating and vital principle held to give me life as a physical organism.
Like you and I both said, it isn't a physical organism, but is a physical organ :wink:
The brain does physically exist, and recent technology has allowed its measurement in a scientific form.

Once again, your claims don't add up.

Ahh and now I see that you've edited yet another of your posts :facepalm: As you have read above, my spirit is veritably carried inside of me.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: HalfLight]
    #19274622 - 12/14/13 12:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

If you asusme spirit to be the brain then you reject the concept of spirit.

Need for "experts" for purposes of citation and assurance can perhaps show lack of experience though I respect that you have proposed your opinion which I take at face value.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19274667 - 12/14/13 12:59 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Duncan Rowhl said:
If you asusme spirit to be the brain then you reject the concept of spirit.



Have refuted this various times :rolleyes:

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Need for "experts" for purposes of citation and assurance can perhaps show lack of experience though I respect that you have proposed your opinion which I take at face value.



So you honestly believe that when I have cited my definitions and they verify my opinion, that I show lack of expertise compared to you? :okay:


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: HalfLight]
    #19274749 - 12/14/13 01:23 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Your opinion that spirit does not exist or that spirit pertains to physical has not been verified.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: Duncan Rowhl]
    #19274771 - 12/14/13 01:29 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

And your opinion hasn't been verified either. That's what happens when you try and discuss something that has no impact on the objective world.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: White Beard]
    #19274789 - 12/14/13 01:34 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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White Beard said:
And your opinion hasn't been verified either. That's what happens when you try and discuss something that has no impact on the objective world.




Indeed....and my take on it was this:

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Duncan Rowhl said:
It's an underlying, dormant essence that operates outside of the parameters of physical science, hence why debate or study of its existence is futile.





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Re: Reincarnation [Re: HalfLight]
    #19274824 - 12/14/13 01:47 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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TryinToTrip said:
I'm not saying a spirit is a physical organism.
Have you truly avoided reading the definition I provided this many times?
Spirit: An animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms
It isn't a physical life form, nor have I argued it to be so.
I am saying it is a source which provides life to living beings.

From what expert do you cite this definition?
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It's an underlying, dormant essence that operates outside of the parameters of physical science, hence why debate or study of its existence is futile.



It completely contradicts mine, and a google search quoting it rendered a lack of results, verifiable or not.

I consider my brain to be my spirit.
The brain is personally spiritual to me in that electric signals between neurons and chemical reception within it create what I experience as joy, dismay, love, hatred, fear, etc
It also fits the official definition of spirit by being both an animating and vital principle held to give me life as a physical organism.
Like you and I both said, it isn't a physical organism, but is a physical organ :wink:
The brain does physically exist, and recent technology has allowed its measurement in a scientific form.

Once again, your claims don't add up.

Ahh and now I see that you've edited yet another of your posts :facepalm: As you have read above, my spirit is veritably carried inside of me.



You cant disprove spirit and you cant disprove god

so arguing it is futile, you can only say with xx.xxxxx% certainty, god doesnt exist in our lab reference frame, and we exclude god until proven

a lot of scientists almost become religious after some time ;-) , or maybe just nuts hehe
I would imagine it is easy to become half-religious when you realize that we only know 5% of the known universe, check nasa graphs, rest is dark matter/energy = no good idea what it is
we know nothing, but we think we know everything

everything I see is 99.999% emptiness , just like myself
atoms are mostly empty, atoms make up everything we see


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: lessismore]
    #19274859 - 12/14/13 01:56 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Just because there are unknowns, doesn't imply God.


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Re: Reincarnation [Re: lessismore]
    #19274867 - 12/14/13 01:59 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

but it is an interesting thought

who is it that thinks? , try meditating on that :-)


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