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I mean this in a good wayOh, yeah? I guess not:> So limited. No exploration of that which has not yet been (or maybe cannot be) proven. To put into single words: limited, stilted, boring. I'm not saying everyone should believe anything anyone comes out with. But an open mind can open doors that were not noticed before.There's a difference between exploration and belief. There's a difference between an open mind and gullibility, and it's not a subtle difference. How do you propose I explore your theories on the soul? There's noting to see, nothing to measure. It's pure philosophy. Your reason for believing it is that you don't well understand the science involved, and you seem not to have the imagination to see how knowledge advances. So you choose to come up with an arbitrary idea, not backed up by anything (other than "How else could it be?"), and it becomes your faith.I may be boring, but if you understand science, it's not boring at all. Learn about quantum and subatomic physics, astrophysics, physiology, etc., and you'll be amazed. If you lived before we understood what makes the stars burn, I'm sure you would come up with and interesting but wrong explanation, and believe it as the truth.Is "interesting" more important than "true"? If truth means anything, then we have to admit that we have no known-to-be-correct explanation for some things (e.g., Why does it appear that the universe continues to expand? No one thinks they know the correct answer. Do you?)Does intellectual honesty mean anything, or has it been plowed under by new age gibberish? Is the interesting the enemy of the true?I don't know what the point of your quote was, other than that I agree that you are ignorant of science. My point is that, if you want answers to difficult problems, science is a good place to start. Unfortunately, made-up nonsense is more interesting to you, so that's what you went with.I have more ideas not on what you should say, but what you should do: Educate yourself. Come up with whatever ideas you like, but don't just believe them. "I don't know how the brain works and I'll leave it at that" is not the right answer. "I just don't know, but I have some thoughts.", or "I'll try to learn more about it" are more reasonable.The problem with believing crazy stuff because it's interesting, other than its lack of intellectual honesty, is that you then become subject to demagogues and crazy people with crazy ideas that are truly destructive. Now are you going to defend astrology? After all, lots of interesting people believe it's correct.OK now, do we understand what an ad hominem argument is? And isn't it telling that we're in the masturbation forum?

Your knowlage of science masturbatates my mind steve! I found some more info on my earlier post his name was Duncan McDougall and he estimated it weighed 21 grams.This probrably explains it better then I can http://www.lougentile.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1

You blinded me with science . This will be my last post here. Today, I'm going to end my life, so that I may prove that our existence does not end with death. Unfortunately, I won't be able to provide you the results of my experiment. Have a good day.

Can't you use some of that energy to leave a sign of some sort?

The article about Duncan McDougall and his 1907 experiment said:In reply to:. . .It would take a great deal of credulity to conclude that MacDougall's experiments demonstrated anything about post-mortem weight loss, much less the quantifiable existence of the human soul. For one thing, his results were far from consistent, varying widely across his half-dozen test cases.... . .What to make of all this? MacDougall's results were flawed because the methodology used to harvest them was suspect, the sample size far too small, and the ability to measure changes in weight imprecise. For this reason, credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul as 21 grams. His postulations on this topic are a curiousity, but nothing more.. . .He was a guy with a religious belief, trying to confirm his belief. His experiments had little relation to good science. Pure hogwash.

true they were not that acurate but no one else has actualy done more tests on the theroy so you still dont know. Personaly I dont think a soul would have weight since if a soul were real it wouldnt be somthing that would be weighed. But fuck know... maybe?

> so you still dont know

Just as we don't know if the Queen of England is actually a space alien. A space alien who looks good in hats.

Can you imagine her without a hat? Now that would be one FUCKED up world!

Ya know Im a cristian and i don't cuss or do hardly anything wrong and Everysince I've been materbating I've never felt guilty, I started when i was 11, and the reason ive neevr felt guilty is probably cuz no one's told me not to do it

Sorry but your talking absolute rubbish! Sexual activity is one of the most natural things any human or living thing does. I mean if people didn't engage in sexual activity there would not be any of us. Masturbation is the start; you've done it, i have done it, the person your sitting next to has done it. It is normal and healthy not a sin if anything its abnormal not to do it!

Youre lucky, telling people masturbation is a sin is wrong and pretty dumb. Its somthing we all do, and its how fe find out about ourselves mand what feels good and how our bodies work. If none of us masturbated when it came so sex we would be pretty clueless and it would be most likly boring as no one would know what felt good. I think its shit how people are called a pervert for talking openly about masturbation and things like that. If anything they ar the ones with the problems and I'm sure if/when they get married their wife/husband will be very unhappy.

i think i've found out why masterbating was a sin or thought to be a sin.In the olden days, people thought that only the seed (sperm) made the person, and not the woman.Just like a seed put in some soil will make a plant, and the soil doesn't actually make the plant (it helps it but in olden days, they didn't no that). They believed that sperm was lots and lots of people, where, if you put it into a woman, it will grow.They thought that if you jacked off, then you would be essentially putting lots and lots of people on the ground where they would die.Sorry if its not entirely true, or if you don't understand me at all

Yeah I understand it. Kinda a wierd belief, shows how science has changed the world.