I have absolutely no idea but I would need to know what a thing actually isken wrote:
Are thoughts and emotions things
Even then I might not know because the question is a very hard one indeed
I have absolutely no idea but I would need to know what a thing actually isken wrote:
Are thoughts and emotions things
This is a hard concept to explain for there are many interpretations and I might fail to describe what God meansken wrote:
What is your definition of God
Would you like to be completely unsure of everything before you die?surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:49 pmI am slowly becoming more unsure of things over time but I do not know if I will be completely unsure of everything before I dieken wrote:
Are you at all open to the idea that if you are not sure
This seems somewhat contradictory to what you just wrote on another thread, which was; "I recently told you that I know nothing ..." AND, "Can you please remember from now on that I know nothing as this is the second time I have told you this".surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:49 pmWere I a rock then I would not really know anything at all but instead I am a human being who thinks that he knows some things
But you were the one who just stipulated that a 'thing' is physical.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:55 pmI have absolutely no idea but I would need to know what a thing actually isken wrote:
Are thoughts and emotions things
Are thoughts and emotions physical things?surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:55 pmEven then I might not know because the question is a very hard one indeed
You do know that you previously wrote this before, right?surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:59 pmThis is a hard concept to explain for there are many interpretations and I might fail to describe what God meansken wrote:
What is your definition of God
An idea that exists within human consciousness that transcends physicality like a a metaphysical [ non physical ]
entity that can be experienced as an energy or a force. Could simply be consciousness itself I really do not know
Yes I would although I cannot be certain how unsure I will actually beken wrote:
Would you like to be completely unsure of everything before you die
I think I know some things but am not sure how true they areken wrote:
Do you think you know some things
Do you want Me to know that you think you know some things
By the way you never directly answered My clarifying question
No that does not make it any easier for me because you have not actually said what a thing isken wrote:
Are thoughts and emotions physical things
Does that make the question any easier for you
To Me there is NO question at all that is even remotely hard
I have no opinion either way on this and it is none of my business anywayken wrote:
Do you want Me to know that you think you know some things
I cannot give you my definition of God because I do not actually know what God isken wrote:
You also just wrote suggesting One could simplify it and just listen to one person at a time give their
definition of God yet when I tried to simplify this you you AGAIN did NOT give YOUR definition of God
YOU were the one who has ALREADY said what a 'thing' is, and that is physical. So, I asked the question. If you can not still answer it, then that is okay.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:29 pmNo that does not make it any easier for me because you have not actually said what a thing isken wrote:
Are thoughts and emotions physical things
Does that make the question any easier for you
To Me there is NO question at all that is even remotely hard
Fair enough.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:29 pmTo me there are so many questions I just do not know the answer to and it is most of them too
Trying to deflect away from the original question, does you no favors.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:35 pmI have no opinion either way on this and it is none of my business anywayken wrote:
Do you want Me to know that you think you know some things
What you want to know is a matter for you and you only and no one else
I think of them as manifestations of a physical thing [ the brain ] but whether they themselves are physical I do not knowken wrote:
Are thoughts and emotions physical things
So, if you do NOT actually know what God is, then how could I provide evidence?surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 2:47 pmI cannot give you my definition of God because I do not actually know what God isken wrote:
You also just wrote suggesting One could simplify it and just listen to one person at a time give their
definition of God yet when I tried to simplify this you you AGAIN did NOT give YOUR definition of God
I can give you a definition but it wouldnt be mine and it is not what you asked for
Thank you, for thinking about and answering the question.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:06 amI think of them as manifestations of a physical thing [ the brain ] but whether they themselves are physical I do not knowken wrote:
Are thoughts and emotions physical things
Does this grey area included that they could be not physical?surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:06 amThey can be experienced however and so from that perspective they could be physical but this is a very grey area indeed
Great thought. But I wonder if you had had that thought why you automatically went for the definition that you did, without really extending nor allowing for any thing else in order to account for the ambiguity.surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:06 am I have previously thought that the definition of physical really should be extended in order to account for this ambiguity