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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: More Atheistic Wishful Thinking
Message-ID: <733@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 00:03:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 00:03:34 1985
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In article <1560@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes:
>
>To be more precise, what I am rejecting is the notion of souls *in the form
>of* supernatural beings which are somehow linked to physical people.  If you
>choose to identify the soul with the information comprising a person, then I
>have no objection-- but such a soul is obviously not supernatural, even
>though it isn't physical either.
>
	As a matter of fact, *historically* speaking, this is very
close to the older definitions of 'soul'. Certainly the modern concept
of a *disembodied* soul is just that, relatively recent. Early
Christian and Jewish writers had no such concept. It is interesting
how easily we read occidental dualisitc interpretations into biblical
language which really has no such sgnificance.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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