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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (78191)	10/22/2003 5:22:33 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

there is no obvious reason to "privilege" the physical universe and consider our interior experience of personhood and its concommitants as being delusory..... I disagree. The physical world is what it is. We have to deal with it as we find it. The spiritual world is too dependent on our perceptions and experiences. Our spiritual world is adapted by us, not handed to us, more susceptible to bias. We may have distorted views of the physical world based on what senses we have to interface with real things, but that problem is compounded when we get into the spiritual world and have nothing but our perceptions touching each other, grasping for meaning, distorting at will. valuation is intimately tied up with our ability to function as persons If our valuation is as you say, and I agree that it is, it is because we make it so, not necessarily evidence that it was designed that way. You can't define something and then use that definition to prove anything about it.