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^I'm afraid, pood, that, once again, you are indulging your penchant for sealioning. I have indicated, as per the OP, why I am devoted to the Bible. In support of my position, I have provided citations from texts that are freely available.

What I mean by spirituality is no more than what Spinoza calls "knowledge of the union of the human mind and the whole of nature." Just as nature is an extended thing, it is also a thinking thing. The infinite forms are each an expression of a thought of nature. The brain is the instrument...

Dude, I just woke up.

I do not say that every skeptic needs to develop spiritually. Nor do I object to criticizing people's spirituality. What I do say is that to campaign against the very idea of spirituality is anti-humanist and ultimately inimical to the rational management of the biosphere.

I am not alone in my insanity. Here is rabbi Arthur Green: Materialist monism is incapable of adequately managing the biosphere. What is required is a spiritual approach. Even biologist Stuart Kauffman recognizes this:

Of course. However, nature is not merely matter. It is also thought. In fact, thought is the essence of nature, and the phenomenal world is the material expression of nature's thought.

You most definitely wil not wait. You will proceed to manage the biosphere as if it were souless, a mere mechanism. Shameful.

Yes, something similar to Plato. The ideas originate with God. This is all laid out in Spinoza's work. Spinoza uses the terms natura naturans and natura naturata. The former is nature as creative power and the latter is the material expression of that power. Each particular thing is a particular...

As for the definition of the soul, nothing could be simpler. The idea that constitutes the essence of a thing is its soul. Everything that exists originates as an idea that then manifests itself materially.

It amounts to the same thing. If you assert that there is no proof of the existence of the soul, you will act as though the soul does not exist.

I used the term materialist monism, ie. the position that only matter exists aka physicalism. If only matter exists, then anything immaterial, by definition, does not exist.

It is contemporary materialist monism that denies the existence of souls in humans or anywhere else. Hence its atavistic depiction of mankind as "feces flinging chimps." The Bible contains the foundation for rational management of the biosphere. See some pertinent quotations here. Ultimately...

The most interesting aspect of moods is that they can be consciously manipulated. I can manipulate and control my own mood, and this as an impact on the people with whom I communicate. I will be pursuing this matter slowly. As I said, I have only just received my copy of the book. It seems...

All I know for sure, Steve, is that I'm in a good mood;) And that's in spite of your AI slop drop;)

Stenzel's book is a solid advance toward the establishment of a science of human interaction. Two precursors are John Macmurray's Persons in relation and Martin Buber's Ich und Du. These two works establish the central importance of relationships to human well-being. They lack, however, any...