I'm glad I got your attention, but I'm sorry I disturbed your english tea party.
Woody: If you want an adult discussion, don't act like a child. Thanks.
Rather than use the word "soul" as a human attribute, tell me the word that best summarizes the aspects of a man's soul excluding the spiritual aspects?
What kind of idiocy is this? A man doesn't have a soul, and as such I can't tell you a word that best describes this soul that man does not have, spiritual or otherwise.
Being a physchologist you should know a good word that summarizes a man's intellect, volition, personality, persona, moral qualities, emotions, and other qualities?
What is this need to compound all these things into one word, and where is it's relevance to anything? My last post was merely focused on the stupidity of trying to relate the soul as being real just because it's mentioned in a dictionary.
I looked up the word "atheist" in the dictionary, and it says an atheist is some one that does not believe in god or gods. You have expanded this to mean more.
How so? Because I said believing in a soul simply because the word features in a dictionary is stupid? Where did I expand anything?
I researched atheism in the wilkepedia, and you are apparantly from the rationalist sect
I'm not from any sect. You just keep making these giant and irrelevant 'leaps of faith'.
You should get a kick out of the pink unicorn argument (how can God have a color and be invisible at same time?)
Why would I get a kick out of it?
Now I ask you a question Snakelord, Could you please give me a rational explanation for this situation
Certainly.
I know someone that is a necromancer (we will call him "Ken"). He consults with familiar spirits of dead people.
Ok. First things first. I have no reason to trust you or believe you about "ken". This will only take 5 minutes to clear up...
His name, occupation, address, email, any newspaper articles, any 'necromancy' qualifications, list of witnesses, any documented film evidence, urine samples, past history and anything else you feel might be relevant.
Oh I'm sorry, did you think I had to just believe you because you said it? In that case.. I have a friend, we'll call him "Ben", and he's a leprechaun.
This individual is a member of the US civil air patrol.
Then it will be easier for me to contact him or colleagues and get some further information, other than just a false name. Please provide the details.
He uses a ouija board as his "medium."
Can he afford a video camera? If not I would be more than willing to provide one for him. He never once thought of recording these activities? If so, please provide the tapes.
He transcripts his discussions with these familiar spirits.
He transcripts? You mean, he writes down what he says happens? That seems like such a time consuming affair, and not needed if he takes 5 minutes to go out and buy a video camera.
A pilot went down in a jungle somewhere, and nobody could locate the aircraft.
Can you name the pilot, the type of aircraft, the jungle? Saying "somewhere" doesn't quite cut it. Do you even know where? Why say "somewhere"?
The local authorities searched, people searched from aircraft
What 'authorities'? What locality? What people?
they tracked and retracked his flight path, and they did everything they could to locate the missing pilot, but nobody could find him.
Any news reports concerning this?
The missing and presumed dead pilot was a member of the civil air patrol and the word got out to Ken .
Name, etc etc? And how did the word get out to Ken?
Ken was not a part of the search parties.
Why not?
Ken got out his ouija board and the flight pattern for the aircraft and he consulted with the spirit of the dead pilot.
Any video tapes showing this to be true? Where did he get the flight pattern? What type of ouija board was it? Where did he do this? Was he near the jungle? Did the spirit identify itself as the dead pilot?
The pilot's spirit showed Ken the coordinates where the aircraft went down with one of those pointed things you use on a ouija board.
What scale map was it? How did it point to a part of a map? (If a map is next to the ouija board, pointing in that direction would be pointing at the entire map - and if the map was on top of the ouija board then how could he see where the pointer was pointing)? Do ouija boards even have pointy things? Instead of saying a pointed thing which doesn't really explain much, could you just go to your friend Ken and take a photo of his ouija board for me?
The pilot was off the flight pattern when he crashed.
That would already be somewhat apparent if the search party had searched his flight path.
Ken got the word out to the search party and they located the aircraft and the dead pilot.
How did he get word out to them?
Do you have a rational explanation for what happened?
That's where you make the fatal mistake. You think 'rational' entails saying something like: "Ah well maybe perhaps he had been there before and had simply not realised until later", or some daft variant thereof - when in actuality being 'rational' means asking for important details instead of just believing the story of some unknown guy over the internet.
What have you provided here other than a story that anyone over the age of three can make up? You have provided
no details whatsoever, you didn't even give this "Ken" a real name. You specifically asked me to be rational, and as a result, I have. It's amusing to think you expected something different, namely that I would say: "It was just luck". You have no understanding as to what 'rational' means do you?
but Ken also transcripted his discussion with the pilot.
He wrote down what he says happened? Can I get a copy of it? If you send it to me I'll send you the transcripted discussion I had with the Loch Ness monster several days ago.
Details Woody, details. You have provided
nothing. No dates, places, names, nothing. I get the distinct impression that's not a choice, but simply that you can't.
