that is simply not true. any belief i have that is not a fact is logical speculation based on facts. do not compare my logical ideas with pie in the sky religious bs. for example, as i've said, i believe who you are is your active brain. where do you think who you are is located, inside your big toe? ROCK
funny how you scoff at my ideas that have an actual foundation in reality, yet you probably have no trouble having 100% "faith" that when you die a "soul" will somehow leave your body and float off to "heaven." please explain the mechanism by which this "soul" stays in your body and knows when to float up to "heaven." also, how does it know where "heaven" is? how does it get there? if you do not need your body, and therefore who you are is your "soul" and not your active brain, why did "god" give you a body? why don't souls just float around without bodies? Wow ok. Interesting. If you believe the Bible, remind me to give you some brochures on this wonderful swampland I have in Florida for sale. LOL. you are either not smart and/or brainwashed. i don't expect you to accept this as being the case. ROCK
Rock: I actually respect where you are coming from, but i would like to know your feelings on whether I or others should be allowed to eat meat....is that our choice too ? are you for regulation forbidding it or do you believe into each his own? The thing I find fascinating is that according to your beliefs, we are nothing more then a highly developed animal( mammal) that has higher intelligence then the other creatures of the earth....but if you do not believe in an afterlife or a heaven ect....then we are just part of nature....so why do we care about eating another animal? Animals eat each other up and down the food chain so why is it dependent upon us to stop that?
RS - You state that you are your active brain. So you are more than just the cells or matter making up your brain. Maybe electrical impulses or something like that, maybe something like the software in your computer that makes it operate. The computer hardware (brain and body parts) and computer software (impulses that make the brain and body live and function). You call that software, active brain, others call it life, or soul, or maybe spirit. We all recognize that it is there, we just call it by different names. You seem to believe that when your active brain stops then you die and that is the end of it all. But if the active brain is like the software in a computer it has the potential to be eternal. If your active brain is a program of impulses then that program could last forever like the computer software. That program could also be potentially transferred or stored. I have a satellite internet, because of poor phone service, and transfer software over that connection all the time so the technology is there for transferring and storing software type stuff. Whether the active brain "software" dies when your body does is a matter of personal belief because it would be very hard to prove that if it is like software it could not be eternal and transferrable and storable.
if you want to do it, that's up to you. however, i'm just stating my case against it so that maybe you'll think twice about it. as for laws, i would say there needs to be more humane ways of slaughtering animals. none of this pulling their guts out while they're moaning. ROCK
i disagree with your eternal life software analogy. the information is stored in the brain. this information is who you are, what you know, your personality, etc. brain cells die. as soon as you die, the information stored in your brain degrades. i'm pretty sure this is why some people that drown can only be brought back to life after a short period of time. if you wait too long, too much of the brain has degraded. so i disagree with you when you say that who you are stays in the brain like computer software. the brain needs to be kept alive or it will decompose. as it decomposes, information it contains goes away with it. ROCK
fair enough......who has their guts pulled out while they are moaning??? cows? Chickens? Truthfully, i have not seen that but that doesn't mean its not done
i disagree with your eternal life software analogy. the information is stored in the brain. this information is who you are, what you know, your personality, etc. brain cells die. as soon as you die, the information stored in your brain degrades. i'm pretty sure this is why some people that drown can only be brought back to life after a short period of time. if you wait too long, too much of the brain has degraded. so i disagree with you when you say that who you are stays in the brain like computer software. the brain needs to be kept alive or it will decompose. as it decomposes, information it contains goes away with it. ROCK ______________________________________ You say that "the who you are information" is stored in the brain. If it is stored there then it must be stored in the cell but not a physical part of the cell. So when the cell dies the information is lost. The information itself doesn't die only the medium it is held in. Isn't software stored on a hard disk, ROM, or some other chip. If that disk or chip is completely destroyed then the software is lost. The software didn't wear out or decay only the medium it was stored in. If the software was transferred before the destruction then it would continue to exist in another medium, even if the old medium was gone. The software could be considered to be eternal because it could continue to be transferred to a new medium indefinitely. If the software is a stored collection of electrical impulses or signals could not the same be true of information in the brain. Can't brain output be detected or measured and if so is it not electrical in nature. There are some similarities.