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Article #13828Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: rbwinn
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:13
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:13
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On Jul 7, 3:48�am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote: > BuddyThunder wrote: > > rbwinn wrote: > >> On Jul 6, 12:58 am, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > >>> rbwinn wrote: > >>- > > >> Well, look spirit up in the dictionary. �If you do not believe in > >> spirit, then there is no way to explain it to you. > > > I looked it up and found lots of vague notions of intermediaries between > > body and soul. That kind of nonsense. > > > So there is no meaningful definition of "spirit" in reality? You made a > > positive claim about my "spirit", then choosing to define it in terms of > > itself. A kind of "spirit is spirit, what's wrong with you" argument. > > I'm none the wiser as to what you're actually referring to. > > The mediaeval understanding of spirit,was essentially what we today > would call the mind, as distinct and somewhat independent of, the body. > The concept of the 'objective observer' grew out of this particular > worldview. Science owes religious philosophy that much, at least.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Spirit could also be called intelligence. Robert B. Winn
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