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Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on August 25, 2012 at 9:02am

By "soul" I mean my internal self, and my life: the bed I have made for myself and which I lie in.  I'm not talking about a self which lives on after we die (although i believe in this too). 

I like this idea of "pollution".  I see it as a nice image and a place-holder waiting to have other things connected into it. 

Pollution = practical consequences. 

1. I don't care what anyone says, if you have done wrong then somewhere in your organism you don't forget it and it trips you up every day. 
2. Your reputation suffers.
3. You learn wisdom when you undertake to remove it. 

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 25, 2012 at 11:05am

So, for you, your "soul" is what is more commonly called your "conscious mind" combined with your memories.

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Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on August 28, 2012 at 4:56am

I think it's good that it remains a vague term. I'm not talking about a precise entity. Rather, a collection of related things. My internal history and the history of what I have made.

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Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on August 28, 2012 at 4:57am

It's interesting that we say that bad behaviour "stinks".

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Permalink Reply by maruli marulaki on August 25, 2012 at 10:36am

Somewhere down this thread I was accused of being a sort of a monster ridiculing cripples.   As this was out of the scope of this topic, I have started a new thread:   

http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/ridiculing-religion-and-ot...

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on August 25, 2012 at 10:50am

Actually, Maruli, you boasted that you and an associate ridiculed those who came to Lourdes in the hope of being healed of infirmities, no one accused you of that. As for the monster part, if it walks like a duck --

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 25, 2012 at 11:30am

...and has a tail like a beaver, it must be a platypus.

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Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on August 28, 2012 at 4:59am

Maruli, we like you, but to be so brutally uncaring is not an attractive quality. If you don't care about people, people aren't going to care about you.

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Permalink Reply by kOrsan on August 28, 2012 at 5:56am

You can't generalize her as being uncaring only because of a handful of people she was talking about.

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Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on August 28, 2012 at 5:44pm

You're probably right.  I actually find her rather endearing.  But [to talk about Maruli behind her back] I think she's heavily damaged and maybe doesn't have an easy time with people. 

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on August 28, 2012 at 6:50pm

RE: "I think she's heavily damaged and maybe doesn't have an easy time with people." - which is basically what I said, and was accused of "kitchen psychology" - welcome to the kitchen, Simon!

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Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on August 29, 2012 at 1:31pm

You could say the kitchen is where the heat is. 

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