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“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you”
(John 15:18).
If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’[c]
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4
Do they have souls?
Probably not.
they feel bad for me, as if I was henceforth doomed to walk the earth as a lifeless shadow, a thinking ape, unable to take part in the spoils these mystical forces are sure to bring
AliceBleachWhite
One of the most basic rules of life is; everything is, or will be food for something else.
Corpse beetles, parasites and bacteria don't care if you have a soul or not.
Honey Badger don't care.
Neither does the rest of the Universe.
Additionally, everything dies; even solar systems and galaxies, just the same as the very corpse beetles and bacteria that will also die eventually after surviving off the leavings of something else that's died. Do they have souls?
Probably not.
One of the most basic rules of life is; everything is, or will be food for something else.
Corpse beetles, parasites and bacteria don't care if you have a soul or not.
Honey Badger don't care.
Neither does the rest of the Universe.
Additionally, everything dies; even solar systems and galaxies, just the same as the very corpse beetles and bacteria that will also die eventually after surviving off the leavings of something else that's died. Do they have souls?
Probably not.
No meaning (nihilism) but this (experience of reality) is always a new experience arising in the moment.
Aphorism
reply to post by arpgme
No meaning (nihilism) but this (experience of reality) is always a new experience arising in the moment.
The very fact that we give meaning and significance to our lives proves there is meaning and significance to our lives. Only if one could not create meaning, no value judgements, and no purpose, would there be no meaning, value and purpose.
Aphorism
These idealists seek to explain her away with gods, other-worlds, souls, after-lives and the like, all enthusiasm and lust for anything but the world the way it is—which is, at least on the surface, enthusiasm and lust for nothing. They intend to brand this hatred “love”.
Aphorism
reply to post by Itisnowagain
There is no mind that does these things. Minds don't dramatize, humans do. And since we are a part of what is, doing what humans do is doing "what is" does.