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- From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: A soulfree perspective
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan12.205724.11002@phyrql.Alt.ZA>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:50:02 GMT
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- >FROM: Lucio de Re <lucio@phyrql.Alt.ZA>
- >
- >Now, if I may butt in, I would like to point out a limited belief
- >system that may throw some light on this subject:
- >
- > *** I postulate that atheists have no soul ***
- >
- >From my limited knowledge of religious writing, I assume that the
- >soul is the communication channel between human beings and God,
- >thus explaining the atheist inability to perceive God's presence.
-
- ["What a terrible thing to have lost one's soul. Or not to have a
- soul at all. How true that is."...D. Jamforth Quayle]
-
- >Personally, I suspect that there may be only 144000 souls available
- >(the number of elected in Revelation(s)), but evidence seems to
- >indicate that a greater number is in fact available, perhaps some
- >souls are more equal than others.
-
- Close. That's the bandwidth -- 144000 souls can pray simultaneously.
- That's a misprint dating back to the Middle Ages: In a passage
- predicting the invention of GUI X-interfaces, the word was originally
- S*elected, but the scribe thought the S* was part of the ornate border.
- You have to pray all the time because you can never get a free line.
-
- Since soul data is archived in heaven/hell and can be
- reloaded temporarily in the form of visions or manifestations from the
- beyond, those with souls (damned or otherwise) can always look
- forward to an occasional run in ectoplastic mode.
-
- Your hypothesis completely satisfies questions pertaining to having
- one's life flash before one's eyes at death.
- Files are constantly being misplaced and not archived during prayer.
- They are copied as part of the final upload, however. Since
- there's also an automatic delete (forgive and forget), no one ever has
- this experience twice.**
-
- **A side-note: After this experience, no more messages come from god and
- the last edits are final. You live "in limbo" until your actual
- shutdown time arrives. Failure to die usually results from a parity
- error during the final archiving process or failure to get a free line.
-
- >
- >Now I'd like to speculate further from my postulate, which I'd like
- >to treat as axiomatic until a counterexample is provided. The type
-
- How can there possibly be two opinions about this?
-
- [...]
-
- >creatures are not among the elected, in fact cannot be saved, as the
-
- Right. A soul is local storage and a commlink. Those with souls are
- like PCs with various net access. Those without are like workstations
- with no local storage beyond memory and some printers. Archives (souls)
- are saved in both Heaven and Hell, as described above.
-
- >
- >It also follows that if we could establish some reliable measurement
- >as to whether a person has a soul or not (there may be misguided
- [...]
-
- Protocols. How many of the protocols does the soul handle? Some have
- been posted here already -- "The Bible says", "God loves us" and
- "Heal [privileged command]", etc., all initiate metaphysical i/o functions.
- Atheists do not have these commands available because they have no souls.
- A simple configuration query suffices:
- "Let us Pray?" The unsouled do not close their eyes, kneel, or
- otherwise indicate that a prayer command is being executed. Sometimes
- there is an error message, sometimes not.
-
- >...without regard to creed, sex, race or soulfulness.
-
- I think the unsouled should benefit from affirmative action; after all,
- we are a minority in the only world we will ever know. Leave the
- suffering to those who benefit from it. Suffering files are god's
- favorites, but if they're only going to be used once while the soulless
- suffers in real time, why should the soulless suffer at all?
-
- All the golf and BBQ we want, I say.
-
- >
- [...]
- >nor proprietorship for the concept. I would dearly like to see the
- >postulate, as well as its lemmas and theorems discussed by those who
- >are most likely to be affected by its veracity.
- >
-
- So I agree:
- God exists, but without a soul you don't know he's there,
- sort of like not having a modem or communications software for your PC.
- Or maybe like not having any backup. (Har har har).
-
- I did see a list of some good units once, but only soul-compatible:
- Blackmagic and Voodoo are systems that deliver hacker access to
- some of the undebugged experimental curses. Buddha is an
- open systems interface without much online help. Xian is basic,
- user-friendly, bulletproof, and can transfer messages from any place at
- any time, unlike some other units that require special
- environments/times/equipment and so forth. If I had a soul, the last
- thing I'd want to be running is an Islam or a Hindu link. All you
- souled out there ought to look around for old Bacchus unit -- they're
- worth their weight in wine.
-
- I know a lot about this, so if you have any questions just ask. Good to
- see some of these atheists finally getting things straight at last. 8^)
-
- -jim
-
-