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08-30-2002, 05:27 AM

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Originally posted by Dr S:
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You're are going to have to settle for having you Mothers Father's hairline and your Dad's ears.

Except that we are talking about the human mind which is incarnate and not genetic or there would be genes in the brain. Behavior is not genetic because we can change our behavior but we cannot change our hairline yet our behavior is not as free as we would like it to be and therefore is incarnate.

(S) Under the best of conditions the human body can make it to about 120 years old before it falls apart by it's self. Methuselah is just an old folk tale.

Yes but we are more than just our body or there would not be an argument possible.

(Amos) My basis for this is that we only use a small portion of our mind that we call our conscious mind
(S) The using only 10% of your brain is an urban myth. You need ever bit of brain you have.

Of course we do, and if only a small portion is conscious we have the rest of our life to think about the rest. If we do this for 50 years you only need 20 generations to reach "One Thousand Years."

(S) When you find yourself in possession of information that you had no way of knowing you are not drawing upon the wisdom of your long dead family members�you are imagining things.

The argument here is that whetever exist in the imagination must exist in reality as well.

(Amos) In animals science we do believe in pedigree breeding and are willing to place huge bets on this science.
(S) Yeah, it's called genetics and is what evolution is based on.

The "science of evolution" we should call it.

(Amos) In our right brain we are not time conscious and so if we can become 'resident' of our right brain it can be said that we are eternal. To be resident of our right brain we must go by our intuition.
(S) And why would we even want such a condition?


So we know who we really are.

They say it's good to be able to laugh at yourself; just not in front of a bunch of monks.

Well if you can laugh at yourself there must be two of you.

08-30-2002, 05:37 AM

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Originally posted by Dr S:
Not to pick nits but I just looked up
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And that's all there is about him.

I've only heard about him and really don't know if he actually existed. I think the word "begat" is not the same as "born" or "fathered" and that is where I base my argument on. Much in the sense that "fistborn" and "only begotten son" do not mean not what we think they mean.

NialScorva · 08-30-2002, 05:50 AM

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