I'm curious as to what people think about degenerative diseases and severe personality changes that occur. Alzheimer's patients who were generally sweet, good wholesome people turn into unrecognizable personalities and who they once were has been erased and replaced. The opposite has also been reported. General $#@!s that everyone hated became docile, sweet and good-natured. Nurses report their wonderment that family rarely visits and they learn that their favorite patient was not that great of a person before they landed in their care.
So where did these people go? Did their souls leave their body before a physical death?
The mind is definitely linked to the physical body, as many physical extremes can and have made people go completely crazy. There is also emotional abuse and neglect that affects a person's mind that changes and shapes their personality and actions.
The word soul is pretty confusing for me.
You are wrong about police.
I have a very different idea on this. I hope it dont offend anyone. So think about the you that is seeing through your eyes right now. You can sense yourself. In one sense you are contstantly changing your views and opinions and understanding is constantly evolving. Sometimes you look back at your past mindset and say to yourself, " I cant belive I ever thought that". But there is something there that doesnt change. Imagine you are looking at yourself in the mirror from when you were a child. The you who is looking is the same unchanged. But the mind and opinions has changed. But there is something there that has never changed.
If the self is my opinions and beliefs then why is it constantly changing? It literally dies all the time. I have this opinon today and it is gone tomorrow. That self dies. But regardless there is something there that is a constant. If the ideas and beliefs are me, then why cant I hold onto them? Why cant I grasp them? Try to hold the moment. You cant do it. It is already gone the moment you try to hold it. Time is always moving, things are always in constant transformation from one form to another. How can there be a permanent me in something that never stays the same?
But what if that which sees through my eyes was the ground of being, the source of all life? What if the same thing that sees through my eyes is the same thing that is seeing through your eyes? What if there is no self apart from the thoughts in your mind? What if your true self was no self at all, and was all life?
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We are all brothers and sisters in humanity. We are all made from the same dust of stars. We cannot be separated because all life is interconnected.