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Pontificating rear end posted:Any terms we use to try to suss out the mechanics of consciousness will never work, because we'll just end up in the weeds. Best we can do is some sort of philosophical Occam's razor, which imho is that consciousness is in inherent in life; yes, every living thing has some form of a "soul." I'd go so far to say consciousness is inherent to the universe (or a greater metaphysical multiverse), and furthermore if a universe does not include consciousness it essentially never exists at all. The quantum uncertainty principle has nothing to do with consciousness. Conscious observation doesn't change anything in the physical world. That's all just new age woo bullshit.
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Serve me a dragon meat steak and I will listen to your tales of immortal 3 year olds
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If you can't achieve nirvana by the time the universe is over then I'm pretty sure the collective consciousness is better off without you
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The Hello Machine posted:Aren't 3-year-olds a little too young to be reincarnated souls? I would feel uncomfortable allowing a strange adult be that near my child. It's reincarnation, not possession. Your child is the strange adult.
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McGavin posted:Imagine isekaiing into this world. Sonic seemed to handle it pretty well 
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Would being a cockroach even be all that bad? We speak of them disparagingly because they suck for us, but the cockroaches themselves seem to be having a blast most of the time.
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Apr 13, 2024 20:10
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redshirt posted:As long as I am a cognizant individual? I'm good! You'll get there some day, buddy
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Apr 13, 2024 21:04
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Pontificating rear end posted:Billions of years and an entire unknown existence beyond this universe, and you think you just happened to spawn at this current time by complete happenstance, and you will soon die and never exist again. just lmao lol etc I don't think it's very funny =/
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Apr 14, 2024 07:32
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Pontificating rear end posted:Dawg you are literally talking about the mechanics of quantizing the soul (into exactly one [1pc] unit) and the specifics of when it enters the body, leaves it, and whether it can be created or destroyed as if it follows thermodynamic laws of matter. Good point, guess we should all believe in some weird arbitrary bullshit for no reason
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Apr 14, 2024 09:35
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Pontificating rear end posted:Kids under 3 cant even process the words into concepts, they're not retaining every word ever heard and then repeating it later after they've learned to speak. I'm sure you could find a thousand stories about kids that age talking about things they have had absolutely no exposure to. Are you actually suggesting that this is a testable phenomenon?
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Apr 15, 2024 03:08
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What if we end up with so many living things one day that there aren't any souls left in the soul bank? Will it be impossible for women to get pregnant at that point, or will the children just come out soulless?
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Who are they reincarnated from? If it's like Mike Tyson or something you're hosed against even just a few of them.
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I like how modern spiritually-minded people will scoff at the question of how much a soul weighs or what it's made of, as if that's some kind of intentionally inane mischaracterization of the subject at hand. But that's kinda what people used to believe, or at least thought could be true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment
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happyhippy posted:Collective delusions. Let's not forget claims of Satanic possession and Satanic ritual abuse, both of which curiously spiked after the release of The Exorcist
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Apr 17, 2024 03:24
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Pontificating rear end posted:Believing in a spiritual soul is a fantasy? You really think a person dies forever and there is nothingness for all infinity (even though there is actually provably somethingness for all infinity)? There's absolutely no reason to believe otherwise.
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Pontificating rear end posted:You're just putting words in my mouth, I only said it was unprovable, which it is, objectively. You have exactly as much evidence one way as I do the other There is, quite literally, an infinite amount of unfalsifiable bullshit that one could cook up about anything. What if I told you there's a tiny asteroid shaped like a teacup on the far side of Andromeda, and inside that teacup there's an ant, and if you ask nicely, the ant will teach you how to speak Portuguese? I have just as much evidence of this being true as you do if it being false (that is, zero all around). Accepting arbitrary bullshit is not an equally valid stance as dismissing it, and constructing an argument so that it's unfalsifiable doesn't make it sound, it just makes it pointless. And you didn't just say that reincarnation was unprovable; you made it clear that you really do think it's true, while throwing an argument from incredulity at the idea of nothing happening after you die. Pontificating rear end posted:Believing in a spiritual soul is a fantasy? You really think a person dies forever and there is nothingness for all infinity (even though there is actually provably somethingness for all infinity)? Call me the quantum soul guy, but I'm guessing what you believe is a nihilistic oversimplification mostly influenced by conventional physics?
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Apr 25, 2024 01:22
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Pontificating rear end posted:Y'all talk about "burden of proof" like Im prosecuting someone in court, it doesn't even apply. There is 0 evidence you dissipate into nothingness when you die, however reincarnation simply implies you live again-- it's NOT the same as "you turn into a butt" which is provably insane. Studies like this are more evidence than you guys have (none): When you blow out a match, where does the flame go?
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Rubber Chicken posted:Someone's always striking a match someplace, it goes there, obviously I was clearly suggesting that it goes to flame heaven, please don't straw man my argument tia
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Pontificating rear end posted:If you completely cease to exist when you die you would be dead right now. I had no idea Jaden Smith was a goon
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Funky See Funky Do posted:In one of them, I think Hinduism, cow and bird are higher on the hierarchy. So a particularly good human could be reincarnated as a cow or a chicken. Now, I don't know if you've notice the sort of lives cows and chickens tend to live but for one would sin on purpose to avoid being reincarnated as one if I believed in that horseshit. Pictured: the final cycle of Samsara 
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