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Originally Posted by Vulcan
No it does not by default get answered by god but it is a question to be pondered.
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Sure, everyone ponders the question at some point to some degree. But that doesn't mean the idea has any actual merit.
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I'll try to explain further. It isn't that some other entity invades us. I look at it as god or this life force is everywhere and if it's everywhere than it's inside of us also. Think of it as what's inside is like a drop of the ocean.
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But there is no pervasive life force. There's nothing different about the atoms that make up a bunny vs. the atoms that make up a puddle, a rock, the air, etc. The idea of life force arose to try and explain why some things are alive and some aren't. Like the earth being flat, it at first appears like a self-evident truth.
But subsequent observation has made the hypothesis unnecessary, there's no atomic or chemical interaction that has ever been observed that requires the addition of life force to explain.
Just like the hypothesis of a dome above the earth to hold back the waters of the deep is no longer necessary.
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
This experience is inside of us. I don't know what it's limits are and I believe that some chemical changes probably do occur inside me because I feel a lot different when I do this thing.
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I don't think you're being clear here though. The experience is inside of us, meaning eventually our brain. Which operates via chemical reactions and electrical impulses. Again are those things manipulated by this life force to be different than they otherwise would have been had the life force not been involved? Because that's what would be required to feel different; the brain has to be changed.