<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class="">On Feb 22, 2018 7:51 AM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_-7901727301225748902quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">A far more difficult thing, in my opinion, is the origin of the concept of the immortal soul.  I am working on that one.</span></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></span><div dir="auto">"But I can't actually just stop existing.  What happens to my memories, my identity, after I die?  I have not experienced anything like them just going poof, so even if you say that's what happens, that doesn't make intuitive sense."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In other words, a common cognitive dissonance when thinking about one's own death.</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"></div></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">----</div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​Yes.  Death, the great mystery.  It's just impossible to think of going to sleep and not waking up.  And primitive people extended this to plants - trees had souls, cattle had souls - others thought trees were gods and should be prayed to to excuse the act of cutting them down.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">In Pinker's book the more science/education a population knows/has, the more people leave religion.  ​</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​Science is a threat - the religious people are right.  Natural causes trump metaphysical causes.  </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w​</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​</div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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