(April 23, 2010 at 9:52 am)Ace Wrote: What really caused me to question the existance of "spirits" is the effects of brain damage has on people. I should know. I had a relative who had heavy brain damage (I say had because she sadly died 5 years ago due to a serious illness). Now she wasn't born with brain damage but had a nasty accident. Her heart stopped and it was a long while before she was finaly revived. Because her heart was not beating and bumping blood into the brain, the brain started to take serious damage due to decay. She had virtually no understanding of any kind. No selfawareness. She couldn't walk let alone stand. She spent years of her life on her bed while being looked after. Her body became extremely weak and became very vulnerable to even the most common illnesses (hence her death).
Now if you are seperate from that guey biomass called the brain then how comes much of you is easily destroyed when the brain takes damage? How comes you lose your memory, selfawareness, understanding, ect ect? I thought the spirit was seperate from the brain? The brain taking damage shouldn't effect the spirit. Shouldn't it? Whatever theists think, I'm quite sure that when the brain fucks up, so do you. When the brain dies, so do you. The moment the brain stops functioning is the moment you do to.
I know theists are going to make some lame bullshit excuse for this one. As usual.
Ill try on that bullshit excuse you speak about
The brain could be the link between the spirit and the body. When it is damaged your spirit cannot access you body.
