tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8864570872244496902..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Soul and body, immortality and resurrectionBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-19583201962628736122011-09-08T03:39:34.799+01:002011-09-08T03:39:34.799+01:00It's wonderful to read your realizations, and ...It's wonderful to read your realizations, and re-appreciate them with you. Chesterton would have enjoyed reading about your thrills, as one who understood that to really appreciate something you have to get far enough away from it to see it as it is.Gabe Ruthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-46743191524991796232011-09-06T20:22:31.218+01:002011-09-06T20:22:31.218+01:00I have heard that the probably-most-accurate conce...I have heard that the probably-most-accurate conception of the state of the soul after death is one akin to the state of a hand after amputation, which is preserved artificially in life and even induced periodically to movement by unnatural means until such time as it can be reattached and regain its proper functioning.<br /><br />I'm often amused by those who think man's destiny should be wholly spiritual -- as if it were a desirable state for a thing to wind up preserved in fluid in a jar, bereft of sensation and emotion. The horrible quality of the human condition isn't that we are bound to bodies but that we are bound to bodies over which we have only tangential control.Prophhttp://collapsetheblog.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-52058662776462803762011-09-06T16:25:32.412+01:002011-09-06T16:25:32.412+01:00A seed is a seed. It is not a tree.
A tree is a t...A seed is a seed. It is not a tree. <br />A tree is a tree. It is not a seed. <br />A seed with life added becomes something utterly different. <br />A tree has no knowledge of being a seed. <br /><br />A human has no knowledge of anything other than being a human. Until it does. <br />God is not a human. <br />A human is not God. <br />Soul is the bridge between them. <br />All things have this in common. <br /><br />Human concerns do not survive death. <br />Which makes it something to quietly look forward to.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.com