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  1. J

    Do animals have souls?

    If guilt (being able to judge one's behavior with respect to a moral code) is an indicator of the possession of a soul, then definitely yes. You should only look at 'Gypsy' when I tell her "Bad dog"!
  2. J

    If people are entitled to free speach, why is racism looked down upon?

    Can the irristable force move the immovable object?? This statement is a paradox only because there are no absolutes. This includes freedom. freedom is limited, and conditional. One is not free (in a civilized society) to cause others harm. When my freedom impacts your freedom, we have both...
  3. J

    Saving the starving millions

    This would be a just and noble move, however, just witness the strife, strikes, social unrest that occurs whenever workers are forced to take a 5-10% wage cut. If everybody in the western world was forced to take an 80% income cut, bloody revolution would occur. Democracies are simply not...
  4. J

    Saving the starving millions

    My extreme sympathies are with these poor wretched souls who literally have no options considering their economic state, their cultural and religious biases which promote large families. Education and contraceptive aid has proved fruitless in India. The one child policy in China was quite...
  5. J

    Saving the starving millions

    This is a big ethical dilemma for me. We all see heartbreaking images on TV of starving children in undeveloped nations and are exhorted to contribute for food, medicines etc to save them. If the developed nations all contribted an amount equal to that we spend on arms and armies, I'm sure the...
  6. J

    Going to Heaven

    I think one has to be very careful with the truth. Sometimes the truth hurts. If the truth will hurt a child too much, If it is too disturbing, If they are not yet of an age where thy can handle the truth, then telling them the truth should be delayed until they have reached a maturity level...
  7. J

    Is there a soul?

    The 4th dimention is time. Physics has learned little about time. Is there a 5th dimention? Conceivable I suppose, but blind conjecture, and I am unwilling to accept as a belief the existance of a soul, for which there seems no rational basis in reality, and even less so if the foundation of...
  8. J

    Is there a soul?

    I think neither a help nor a hinderance. I have strong moral values, to which I believe I have largely adhered, so my life satisfaction arises from this. My moral guidepost? The situation ethic. "In Every situation, do the most loving thing" Not the easiest to apply, but a good guide. I...
  9. J

    Is there a soul?

    Yes everything made of the same fundamental particles, but not the exact same particles, but different instances of the same kind of particles. The fundamental particles that make up my computer occupy a different portion of 3 dimentional space than do I. There is also 3 dimentional space...
  10. J

    Is there a soul?

    Cheers Michael; Hope I do not become as cynical as you.
  11. J

    Is there a soul?

    63 years of a great life! I have lost parents, but that also is life. My 9 month old grandson was born with a partial extra chromosome 13, will be legally, but not totally blind, and very likely mentally deficient, but that also is life!
  12. J

    Is there a soul?

    If the soul is the creature itself, and presumably continues on after the body dies, how can this be if it is insubstantial? If it is some 'undetectable' energy, how can it recognise other souls? To say that something is indetectible is ubsurd. Everything, I repeat everything that exists, has...
  13. J

    Cardinal fears criminal charges for preaching anti-gay messages in Canada

    There is medical evidence that hosexuality is not a choice, but an inherited attribute. Gays themselves have long maintained that there's is not a lifestyle choice. Thus how can it be a sin? Truse christians will live their lives according to their belief systems, and only judge their own...
  14. J

    Cardinal fears criminal charges for preaching anti-gay messages in Canada

    Gay is a free will lifestyle choice (of sin), its not the same as ethnicity which is not sin. There is medical evidence that gay behavior is not a choice, but an inherited disposition. (hormone balance?) therefore gays can be considered a minority. Gays themselves strongly maintain their...
  15. J

    Is there a soul?

    I was brought up Anglican. The soul, I was taught, lives on after the body dies, and if we behaved morally, it would ascend to heaven, where we would be re-united with God, and our loved ones. We would live in perpetual happiness and peace. If we were immoral, our soul would descend into hell...
  16. J

    Prayer and justice

    I have a 9 month old grandson who was born with a partial extra chromosome 13. As a result, he will see only light and dark with his left eye, and have only peripheral vision in the left. He is already quite developmentally delayed, and will have some degree of mental handicap, hopefully mild...
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