Thursday, April 28, 2005

   Hey look! I found a butterhorn!
Holy crap for crap. 500 words down and 1000 to go. Alrighty, here's a little snippet of this 'God' paper. **If you just don't care, might I advise you to skip the next two paragraphs!** I'm leaving the quotes in but the footnotes out so Viminitz and Olen better not sue...

To begin with, the idea behind modal immortality rests on the idea of co-reductionism, which says that if we are immortal, there is a particular kind of soul (read: identity) that we will want to have continue on. That identity is one “with a concept of itself similar enough to my concept of my self that I’d care about its surviving”. Ideas like this one, about ‘life after death’ depend heavily on personal identity as Viminitz continues to say that if the soul has no distinguishing characteristics (at least none that are discernable save by the eye of God) then why would we care whether or not it survives and continues on after our death?

On the same subject, Jeffrey Olen wishes to know what it is that makes a person the same person as he was the day, or even a few minutes before. He first makes the distinction between a person and a human being, claiming that the person is not merely biological, as the human being is. The person encompasses emotion, consciousness as well as self-consciousness and “not only has beliefs, desires and so forth, has beliefs about its beliefs, desires and so forth.” Secondly, the things that make a person the same as he was before or will be he bases on two simple criteria. The person must have the same body and the same memories. It is important to make this distinction for we can then pose the question of whether or not the “person can survive the death of the body” and eventually end up in heaven as persons/souls are wont to do...

o_0 Somebody kill me. Anyways, that's how I spent a large part of my Wednesday. I think I'll just keep working and maybe not go to sleep tonight. Meh, I have to be up at 5 anyways. More Union negotiations tomorrow. Starting at 9am and it's a two hour drive to get there, and we're going to hit rush hour traffic. Dammit! So if anybody feels like chattin' (heheh) lemme know! I'll probably sign back into MSN at midnight or 1:00 or so (that's 2 or 3 Otaku time), brew a pot o' coffee at 4:30...

Before this gets too long with my philosophical babble I must say (another) big thanks to Raven8763 who made me some purdy presents today! Like this one!
<<< It just fits so well with my Duo theme, eh? And a couple of sweet yaoi support banners that I will try and rotate so all the fangirls (but not the rabid ones Oreana! XD) can see them! I'm thinking I'll do that Saturday after I do my income tax return. Heh, it'll be nice to think about numbers rather than God for once! Alright, good night everybody!
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