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Re: Atheists?
computers make the quetions of body and mind and spirit a little easier to grasp.
I think your soul is like the SW that runs on a computer. If I take a blank CD and weigh it, then put $1000 worth the SW on it, and weigh it again, the CD weight is exactly the same
therefore, SW has no mass - therefore SW is not confind by the laws of physics. It can travel faster than the speed of light (mass = 0) and it is eternal. The embodiement of it in our physical world is not eternal, but we can make copies of copies of copies, and that SW can exist forever without being changed or diminished in the slightest 'bit'
likewise our souls.
Our bodies then are the HW. You install SW on a computer and it controls what that computer will do, within its HW limitations. You put WORD on a 186 and it will run slow, but it will be the same SW as if you put it on a 1G Pentium
The HW limits what the 'soul' can do, but the character of what it wants to do is the same.
Memories - I can use WORD for years and build up a lot of doc files on a hard drive. Erase the HD and all those files are gone, but I can reinstall the SW (WORD) on a new machine, and it will be the same WORD that was on the old one - it just wont remember all the papers that had been written with it.
Spirit is a little more tricky. People use spirit and soul interchangably, but I think that is a mistake. I think our spirit was the counterpart to our phycial bodies, that we interacted with the spiritual world through. our soul connects to the physical world through our body, and our soul use to interact with the spiritual world (Gods domain) through our spirit
and that is unique about the christian religion - that our spirits were lost back when Adam messed up, and to be the way we were intended, our spirits must be 'born-again'
reconnecting us with God - like hooking up the network cable again.
Thats my take on it - I could be totally out in the woods, but if I am, its kinda nice out here in the woods :^)
I think there are things about us, our souls, that control who we are, that control our character - Christianity teaches that we will be given new bodies (a HW upgrade) in the afterlife, we wont be disembodies souls floating around - When Jesus was ressurected He didnt simply come back to life in His old body, He was different - so different that people didnt recognize Him.
how much of this current life experience will be uploaded into that new body? I dont know.
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