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Mind memory and being (Why wash your hands?)
Posted Aug 16, 2000
In thinking (and i may be flattering myself by calling it that), I think i have figured out why people of a Muslim (and other) faith lean so heavily on the concept that cleanliness is a virtue to be observerd strictly.
These peoples know things that we don't.
Pretend, imagine, forget what you think you know for just a few paragraphs and play with me...
Consider your memory. You can remember all the way from two seconds ago, to when you were a child (if you are over 50, this remembering may stop somewhere in the mid-sixties). These memories seem, for the most part to be complete. You probably do not have any spans of time in there where you remember being someone else, or living a completely different life than your own (at least this time around anyway).
These memories are stored in that meaty computer we all call a brain. The brain is part of the body. These are stationary items. The soul on the other hand is not so easy to locate. Some say that there is no such thing as a soul. Mabey for these people there is not and they want to convince others that no one has a soul as to not be left out of the soul-game. ...Anyway since the soul is not such an eaisily identifiable item and very hard to locate, who is to say that IT does not shift and move around as it (or something else) sees fit.
If your soul were in someone elses body it would seem as it (the body)and the memories housed within the brain belonged to that soul, and because YOU are not your body, and YOU are not your brain it would be that YOU ARE your soul. In that body you would be working off of those memories and with that body.]
Consider all of this and be nice to the person who will be in your body when that body wakes up tommorrow, and hope that the soul who occupied the body you will soon occupy belived in washing regularly.
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Mind memory and being (Why wash your hands?)
Posted Aug 16, 2000
In thinking (and i may be flattering myself by calling it that), I think i have figured out why people of a Muslim (and other) faith lean so heavily on the concept that cleanliness is a virtue to be observerd strictly.
These peoples know things that we don't.
Pretend, imagine, forget what you think you know for just a few paragraphs and play with me...
Consider your memory. You can remember all the way from two seconds ago, to when you were a child (if you are over 50, this remembering may stop somewhere in the mid-sixties). These memories seem, for the most part to be complete. You probably do not have any spans of time in there where you remember being someone else, or living a completely different life than your own (at least this time around anyway).
These memories are stored in that meaty computer we all call a brain. The brain is part of the body. These are stationary items. The soul on the other hand is not so easy to locate. Some say that there is no such thing as a soul. Mabey for these people there is not and they want to convince others that no one has a soul as to not be left out of the soul-game. ...Anyway since the soul is not such an eaisily identifiable item and very hard to locate, who is to say that IT does not shift and move around as it (or something else) sees fit.
If your soul were in someone elses body it would seem as it (the body)and the memories housed within the brain belonged to that soul, and because YOU are not your body, and YOU are not your brain it would be that YOU ARE your soul. In that body you would be working off of those memories and with that body.]
Consider all of this and be nice to the person who will be in your body when that body wakes up tommorrow, and hope that the soul who occupied the body you will soon occupy belived in washing regularly.
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Mind memory and being (Why wash your hands?)
Posted Aug 16, 2000
In thinking (and i may be flattering myself by calling it that), I think i have figured out why people of a Muslim (and other) faith lean so heavily on the concept that cleanliness is a virtue to be observerd strictly.
These peoples know things that we don't.
Pretend, imagine, forget what you think you know for just a few paragraphs and play with me...
Consider your memory. You can remember all the way from two seconds ago, to when you were a child (if you are over 50, this remembering may stop somewhere in the mid-sixties). These memories seem, for the most part to be complete. You probably do not have any spans of time in there where you remember being someone else, or living a completely different life than your own (at least this time around anyway).
These memories are stored in that meaty computer we all call a brain. The brain is part of the body. These are stationary items. The soul on the other hand is not so easy to locate. Some say that there is no such thing as a soul. Mabey for these people there is not and they want to convince others that no one has a soul as to not be left out of the soul-game. ...Anyway since the soul is not such an eaisily identifiable item and very hard to locate, who is to say that IT does not shift and move around as it (or something else) sees fit.
If your soul were in someone elses body it would seem as it (the body)and the memories housed within the brain belonged to that soul, and because YOU are not your body, and YOU are not your brain it would be that YOU ARE your soul. In that body you would be working off of those memories and with that body.]
Consider all of this and be nice to the person who will be in your body when that body wakes up tommorrow, and hope that the soul who occupied the body you will soon occupy belived in washing regularly.
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