Pseudo-Philosophical Musings Made While Browsing the EVC

After years of browsing the EVC I have been enlightened, entertained, and educated. The following is a list of the various things I have learned, Ideas I have had, among other things.If any of you have your own lists feel free to post them as well 1) I am an Organism.2) Consciousness is a property of matter.3) Soul is a redundant concept.4) By virtue of our consciousness we give other things meaning.5) By virtue of our consciousness we lend other things consciousness. If I pick up a rock, that rock is now conscious through me.6) By extension, should we be the only conscious thing in the universe, we make the universe conscious.7) The universe is very big, devoid of any inherent meaning beyond that which we give it.8) I am mortal.9) One day I will die, the universe will loose a neuron, and all my desires will cease to exist.10) God is a man made idea.11) Man is God, god is a personification of the human Id.12) Humans are soft. We are not the most resilient of creatures.13) Religion can be dangerous.14) Dogmatic adherence to a faith can pollute the mind.15) People will believe just about anything you tell them.16) The property of existence negates the existence of non-existence. Existence is the one thing that has always existed.17) Existence is arbitrary.18) Our thoughts, fantasies, dreams, may be just as real as the physical world on some level.19) Existence is the result of humans interpreting arbitrary data.20) I am an Organism, and when I die, my body will rot and smell very bad.{Added the blank lines between the numbered items. While I was at it, I added spaces after the )'s. - Adminnemooseus}This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 05-11-2005 01:06 PM

Yup, I would say that's a pretty good tally of the wisdom of EvC and inferences to be made therefrom. I disagree with most, but may agree with a few of them depending on what is meant. I think this is pretty much true. I think I agree with this. Your body is but your soul isn't. Um, afraid not. Some gods are definitely man-invented, but there IS a Creator God who made it all. Not sure what this means, but I might agree with it if I did. Depends on the religion. So can political philosophy be dangerous, so can science, so can one charismatic human being who thinks he's a god and gets political power on the level of a Caesar/Hitler be dangerous. So can your next door neighbor if he goes through a bad time and decides to take it out on his neighbors or fellow employees or ex-wife or his children or people he shoots at random as they gas up at the pump or drive down the highway. That makes me laugh. Tell me the last time anybody believed what you told them -- about anything important that is. Possibly more real. C. S. Lewis thought so. Very true of your body, but not your soul, though I suppose in some sense even a soul can smell bad, but unfortunately that's not the same thing as losing consciousness.