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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
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  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  Crom laughs from his mountain!
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  583

  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  Either way, you've also presented no logic that leads to the conclusion of "souls exist".

  Yes I agree. But I was not talking about logic in that sense.

  I was talking about logical consistency inside philosophical systems about soul.

  But there's logical consistency in Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and that's alone doesn't prove they have real existence.

  But logical consistency is required to systems that harbour truth. JWism, for example, doesn't have internal logical consistency. That's what I was talking about. There's logical consistency in several philosophical theories of soul.

  You've simply said your god gave some animals souls and then forced them into bestiality and incest. Hardly logic.

  Well that's not what I meant. I accept the Thomistic theory of soul.

  In short it says that there's 3 kinds of soul.

  The first one is the vegetative soul, found in plants and simple forms of live.

  The second is the sensitive or animal soul. Animals have both vegetative and sensitive souls. In Jewish theology is called Nefesh Habehamit. In Latin is called Anima.

  These two souls are material, not made directly by God but evolved from matter created directly by God in the Big Bang (BTW this elegant scientific theory was created by a Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre). They're not independent from body (Soma) and are mortal. I think computer software someday will be equivalent to the highest level of these mortal souls.

  The anatomically modern humans evolved into the highest level of the animal soul. Acquiring by evolution IMHO, what is called in a psychology theory, the bicameral mind.

  One of these anatomically modern humans with bicameral mind in some point in recent history received the third kind of soul.

  This soul is created directly by God, since the first one to the every human being conceived now. This soul is immortal and is named Psyche in Greek (equivalent to Neshamah in Jewish theology). The first anatomically modern human who received this soul is Adam and his offspring received this soul directly by God since then. His first sons and daughters married another anatomically modern humans without Psyche, but it was not bestiality because they shared the same kind of bodies and mortal souls. From this point the humans with Psyche had a evolutionary advantage and the other humans became extinct (by killing and/or assimilation).

  There's Pneuma too but it's another discussion...

  Basically that's my view on soul.
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  What Happens to Adam and Eve?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in jw theology, what happens to adam and eve?

  are they resurrected and become heirs to paradise on earth?

  or will they become two of the heavenly class?

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  John_Mann

  Reading the Genesis one can say they were repentful.
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  The existence of soul is a serious problem examined by philosophy. Like you or not.

  I know you don't recognise any other philosophical method rather than the scientific one.

  https://global.britannica.com/topic/soul-religion-and-philosophy

  The philosophy branch that studies the soul is called Metaphysics.

  And Philosophy of mind approach the concept of soul in the Mind-body problem. Neuroplasticity shows that the mind itself can control the material organisation of the brain.
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  In which case we are much closer than I first thought but your definition is still incomplete. It doesn't allow for logical deduction.

  I used the generic term because there's a branch that only accepts or includes the acceptance of logic (philosophy). That's called Logical Positivism.

  There's a new term being used interchangeable to classical (from Comte) Positivism: Scientism.

  I don't think Cofty and Viviane are logical positivists because the philosophy of soul is presented with logical consistency and both deny the logical conclusion of the soul.

  They even can't admit the soul it's not a subject for the scientific method.

  They clearly advocates the universal use of scientific method and don't recognise any other form of knowledge as valid.

  I wonder what kind of Materialism they accept...
  
  
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  I think the ultimate crazy conclusion from positivism is the Eliminative Materialism.

  Eliminative Materialism says the human consciousness does not exist because it cannot be scientifically verified.

  So to eliminativists God is not the only delusion but the human consciousness is a delusion too.

  That's the logical conclusion if materialism is the only system you accept.

  Before someone says my definition of Eliminative Materialism is wrong, here's a link:

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism
  
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  Personal purpose in life can be scientifically verified as valid?

  Really?
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  There are things that can be logically deduced but for which there is no empirical evidence.

  Like what?
  
  
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  Reproduction? My goals beyond that can definitely be scientifically verified.

  Sorry but personal purpose in life can't be scientifically verified as valid.

  If you really knows what scientific verification is you must know that.
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  583

  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  John_Mann

  I @Nicolaou

  That's my first post and was not about the definition of positivism per se (me and Viviane were already talking about positivism in other topic), but one of the positions positivism leads. Meaning or purpose of human life beyond biological goals is nonsense to positivists because cannot be scientifically verified.

  My crude definition of positivism is 5 posts before your first one. (page 4)