M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[alice malice]

 Spinoza once said that everything excellent is as difficult as it is
rare. I don't get the idea that these men are rational, or scientific,
not as we foolishly think of scientific; they are scientific and
mathematical men, but science is not rational, objective, complex, and
so on, and so neither are they. We live in the computer age, the
digital age, the postmodern age...etc.....we are none of these.
Spinoza is a nice counter culture to the Cartesian line that divides
two or more cultures, or the mind for that matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_(book)



On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Ditto. This "rational person hoping for ghosts" take reminds me of Pale Fire - the rational poet, in his grief, is desperate to see a ghost. Somehow, the belief in ghosts, seems folksier than organized religion, to the point where the rational, the atheistic can give themselves a free pass to contemplate such phenomena, while still refusing any formalized belief in an Afterlife.
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> Laura
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>>From: David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net>
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>>I'd buy that.
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>>On Jan 15, 2015, at 7:06 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
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>>> Interesting in terms of Mason's frequenting of hangings, a place where souls might be departing bodies on a regular basis. Maybe he was looking for some evidence of that.
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