Friday, December 02, 2005

Just popping in

So Epsilon, is a hurricane. Yes we got a hurricane after Thanksgiving ain’t El Nino grand? You notice all the talk about global warming never mentions this is an El Nino year. Why? Because they can blame all the weird weather and unusually warm temps on global warming, one by one instead of having to lump it all as an El Nino effect. The media knows that people are tired of hearing about El Nino, so they have to spin the weather news differently so people will pay attention.

Now then here is my point:

If reincarnation is real would you have to be reincarnated after you died? It would seem that there are no temporal limits, especially for a supreme being. So, I could die in 2088, and be reincarnated in 1622, that way I could be burned as a warlock for my heresy in this life.

This also brings up the question of a soul. It seems that for the soul to have any value as an eternal being, it would have to contain your personality and memories. (Without those things you aren’t you.) Conveniently those are the only things about a person that isn’t inherent or tangible. I have never seen a good definition of what comprises a soul? Does it have mass or is it more like a shadow? If I had to guess I would say the soul is what endows humans with consciousness, and is therefore indistinguishable from the person. That would make the soul much more that electrochemical reactions, but would make the soul the nearly quantum level of complexity that make the brain more than the sum of its parts. My philosophy I don’t think conflicts with any tenants of any major religion that I am aware of.

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