Short Form Poetry
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Comment from Dean Kuch
Well, well... It looks as if you have yet another contest winner here, Mikey.
Voltaire, the great enlightenment writer and philosopher, once said, "Nobody thinks of giving an immortal soul to a flea." However now, nearly 300 years later, the mass of accumulated scientific evidence suggests we may have to. Does your cat or dog have a soul? What about a flea?
In the last century, science has undergone several revolutions, with profound implications for answering this ancient spiritual question.
Traditionally, scientists speak of the soul in a materialistic context, treating it as a poetic synonym for the mind. Everything knowable about the "soul" can be learned by studying the functioning of the human brain. In their view, neuroscience is the only branch of scientific study relevant to one's understanding of the soul. The soul is dismissed as an object of human belief, or reduced to a psychological concept that shapes our cognition and understanding of the observable natural world. The terms "life" and "death" are thus nothing more than the common concepts of "biological life" and "biological death."
Of course, in most spiritual and religious traditions, a soul is viewed as emphatically more definitive than the scientific concept. It is considered the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing, and is said to be immortal and transcendent of material existence.
The current scientific paradigm doesn't recognize this spiritual dimension of life, but we should...
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Well, well... It looks as if you have yet another contest winner here, Mikey.
Voltaire, the great enlightenment writer and philosopher, once said, "Nobody thinks of giving an immortal soul to a flea." However now, nearly 300 years later, the mass of accumulated scientific evidence suggests we may have to. Does your cat or dog have a soul? What about a flea?
In the last century, science has undergone several revolutions, with profound implications for answering this ancient spiritual question.
Traditionally, scientists speak of the soul in a materialistic context, treating it as a poetic synonym for the mind. Everything knowable about the "soul" can be learned by studying the functioning of the human brain. In their view, neuroscience is the only branch of scientific study relevant to one's understanding of the soul. The soul is dismissed as an object of human belief, or reduced to a psychological concept that shapes our cognition and understanding of the observable natural world. The terms "life" and "death" are thus nothing more than the common concepts of "biological life" and "biological death."
Of course, in most spiritual and religious traditions, a soul is viewed as emphatically more definitive than the scientific concept. It is considered the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing, and is said to be immortal and transcendent of material existence.
The current scientific paradigm doesn't recognize this spiritual dimension of life, but we should...
Comment Written 01-Jun-2014
Comment from Kingsland
This is a very good poem on the soul and how is remains to be even after it leaves the body. This was a well written poetic voice that was written in an excellent format I enjoyed reading and writing this response for it... John
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This is a very good poem on the soul and how is remains to be even after it leaves the body. This was a well written poetic voice that was written in an excellent format I enjoyed reading and writing this response for it... John
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Comment Written 01-Jun-2014
Comment from victor 66
Please, I do not mean to offend another's philosophy of 'the soul.' It's just that I have lived in this world long enough to be suspicious of things that may or may not exist. I am not so arrogant to disregard the possibility of 'a soul', I just don't know, and I am not convinced one way or the other. I do appreciate your thoughts on the subject and I wish you luck.
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Please, I do not mean to offend another's philosophy of 'the soul.' It's just that I have lived in this world long enough to be suspicious of things that may or may not exist. I am not so arrogant to disregard the possibility of 'a soul', I just don't know, and I am not convinced one way or the other. I do appreciate your thoughts on the subject and I wish you luck.
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Comment Written 01-Jun-2014
Comment from DALLAS01
caught
inside this strange shell
I dwell, for a spell.
Think you have a winner here. Love this line and the reference to twenty four hours, and the staggering of line, and everything about this write. You will be getting my vote.
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caught
inside this strange shell
I dwell, for a spell.
Think you have a winner here. Love this line and the reference to twenty four hours, and the staggering of line, and everything about this write. You will be getting my vote.
Comment Written 01-Jun-2014