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To: Greg or e who wrote (45853)	1/30/2014 8:19:51 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Don't flatter yourself, what really dawns clearly this mind/brain duality is a complete sham, for even the casual observation of mental constructs, mental imagery are always just reflections that approximate the physical world. Its just "pretty noise", only the smallest self observation will reveal this, you can even do it yourself. Now that you mention the "physical resurrection", well that just seals it, but your too obtuse to realize you just refuted that whole argument by this being stressed. The mind does not channel any new "spiritual" or supernatural things at all or refer to some other plane of existence, more like the eye that transfers images to the brain, that mind/brain just juggles entities around, always to do with the physical or relationships within the material world between people, places or things, all originate in the material. Thats why hugs are better than drugs, food better than bombs, Capitalism works, on & on & on...too much material to cover in one post. William Lane Craig would look good in a pink ballerina's tutu, add blue slippers & he would be complete, he's a goof, tip toeing in the tulips of fantasy land, but you can't teach an old parrot new tricks.

To: Greg or e who wrote (45853)	1/30/2014 8:54:06 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

It can be said the mind can deal in intangibles like using metaphor, mainly since the emergence of human language. We often see two different things being tied into a relationship, a comparison is achieved rhetorically using figures of speech, though not things that are literally the same. (allegory, hyperbole, allusion & simile...even parables) "All the world is a stage" "Peter was the rock of the Church" This quotation contains a metaphor because the world is not literally a stage. By figuratively asserting that the world is a stage, Shakespeare uses the points of comparison between the world and a stage to convey an understanding about the mechanics of the world and the lives of the people within it. An example relating to law and economics is the metaphor used by Plato: "But those who have loved their money are twice as attached to it as others; for as poets love their poems and fathers their children, just so do money-makers love their money, not only for its use, as do others, but because it is their own production. Here he is alluding to the idea of "having" which is a concept that lead to the significance of possession,sounds so much like something Jesus would have said? ahem.. (And how we define matter has changed, we have seen a completely expanded view of our ideas of matter since Newton, whatever exists now in the time/space continnuum which does include particles that behave like waves etc)