SOUL POLL

[morkinva]

Which of the following most closely matches what you feel
about the body/soul connection:

1) Spiritualism - Man's true nature is spirit. All matter,
such as your body, is spirit (or light) in a more crude
or grosser form. We have all 'forgotten' our true nature,
and each of us is in fact a part of God, a drop of water
that has been temporarily separated from the ocean, so to
speak. Physical reality is a delusion which is kept alive
by attachments to outcome and the ego.

2) Dualism -- as propounded by Plato and Descarte. The
'ghost in the machine'. Your existence is reducible to two
components: a) your physical body - b) The processes of the
mind which occur in a non-physical realm. When your body
dies your spirit lives on.

3) Materialism/emergentism -- The only thing you have is your body.
There is no spirit or mind or soul. Your consciousness is
a natural progression of evolution, a concurrent development
with the growth of your neocortex, advanced spinal cord and
the development of language. Abstract thought is a natural
function of the organism. We are nothing more than an animal,
albeit possibly the preeminent animal currently on the planet.
Once you die, you are gone.

 

[xirtam]

Dualism.

But Plato determined everything by negation and the idea of "Forms," so I'm not sure he was a firm dualist.

Descartes was asked whether he believed in spiritualism, and he said "I think not." We haven't heard from him since.

 

[singh]

How about 'None of the above'?

 

[gopunk]

3

 

[Cyco]

Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.


Kudos to those that know the reference.

 

[StattlichPassat]

Number 1 is really vague... I almost voted #3.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: cyco5150
Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.


Kudos to those that know the reference.

Bill Hicks?

 

[Kadarin]

I voted #3. While it would be nice to think that something happens to us after we die, that our consciousness "lives on" in some form, I believe that it's wishful thinking.

 

[IGBT]

I honestly don't know..I would like to think there's a big picture to all this and some have faith there is but nobody really knows. The bible is too simplistic explanation for the obvious indications of design.

 

[Cyco]

Originally posted by: AmusedOne

Originally posted by: cyco5150
Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.


Kudos to those that know the reference.

Bill Hicks?

Yep.
Later sampled by Tool for "Third Eye" on Ænima

 

[morkinva]

Originally posted by: singh
How about 'None of the above'?

You mean, there isn't one selection there that is even remotely close? What did you have in mind?





Wow the heathens are topping the poll !

 

[Alex]

tempted to go for dualism but im sober right now...