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Author: TomTom Date: Aug 17, 2008 14:41
"Searles O'Dubhain" wrote in message
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> "Tom" comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> Tautology. A spirit is an essence is a spirit. Show me one.
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> You have been discussing with one in this thread.
All I see are words on a screen, claiming to have originated from a
"spirit". Suppose I claim that I am the Lord, thy God, and thou shalt have
no other gods before me. Would that be a demonstration of my sovereignty or
merely an assertion of it?
>> The tales do not breathe. The people who tell them breathe.
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> The tales are alive and the game is afoot! :-)
We are the tellers of tales. They do not tell themselves.
>> Spirits are imagined to be within physical entities. They are not
>> observed but inferred.
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> Inference is one way of knowing through association.
Inference is guesswork, not knowledge.
>>>>> I think symbols and ideas are two forms of the same thing.
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>>>> Then you don't think that an idea can live in a symbol either.
>>>
>>> I think two forms of the same thing can merge or be symbiotic with one
>>> another.
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>> Non sequitur.
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> What is a form?
The qualities that can be observed directly.
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