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What It Means To Be Human

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  • #41
    Figure of speech loser, figure of speech.
    Achkerov kute.

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    • #42
      Well, if you had the same soul, but the body of a frog, you wouldn't be human. So what is it that defines a human? It can't be the soul.

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      • #43
        Originally posted by loseyourname So what is it that defines a human?
        The ability to destroy itself. No wait, that includes lemmings, too.

        Last edited by sSsflamesSs; 03-27-2004, 07:05 PM.

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        • #44
          Originally posted by loseyourname Well, if you had the same soul, but the body of a frog, you wouldn't be human. So what is it that defines a human? It can't be the soul.
          Definitely a soul, unless you wish to believe you are a worthless purposeless, insignificant, physical body. A true narcissist would have every reason to believe in a soul.
          Achkerov kute.

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          • #45
            Originally posted by Anonymouse Definitely a soul, unless you wish to believe you are a worthless purposeless, insignificant, physical body. A true narcissist would have every reason to believe in a soul.
            Your soul might define you, but I have just shown why it does not define "human." If you indeed do possess a soul, all it shows is that you are more than just human, for a human is nothing more than a certain species of primate, like it or not. Again, your soul in the body of a shark would be a self-aware shark, not a human.

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            • #46
              The Custodial beings in Bramley's book, which are said to possess the same spiritual nature as us, are not human.

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              • #47
                Originally posted by loseyourname Your soul might define you, but I have just shown why it does not define "human." If you indeed do possess a soul, all it shows is that you are more than just human, for a human is nothing more than a certain species of primate, like it or not. Again, your soul in the body of a shark would be a self-aware shark, not a human.
                ..hence, a spiritual being. As far as the "Custodials", this is about humans being spiritual beings, not "Custodials".
                Achkerov kute.

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                • #48
                  Do you honestly not see that "spiritual being" does not define human? A spiritual being can be a member of any number of species, either terrestrial, aquatic, or extraterrestrial. A human being is defined by that which makes the species unique biologically, for nothing seems to differentiate us spiritually from other spiritual beings that are not human.

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                  • #49
                    ...And what makes it unique spiritually.
                    Achkerov kute.

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                    • #50
                      Humanism

                      Humanism is founded on an incorrect conception of Self which arises from the 'Particle' conception of Matter. The human being does not exist in isolation, nor has dominion over all the earth and every other living thing by divine decree. The Metaphysic of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter allows humans to understand, for the first time, how they exist in Space and are interconnected (sharing waves) with other Matter in the Space around them. Thus Matter and the Universe are One, humans exist as structures of the universe.
                      Once we correctly understand the True conception of Self as Universe then we realise that the fundamental morality of all world religions 'Do unto others as would be done unto thy Self' is Necessarily True (a Tautology) for the Other is a part of the Self.
                      I can make you sleep with my NATURE Look

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