| Augen said: As I understand it the spirit in literal religious terms is a non physical manifestation of a being that can transport itself to another dimension called the "after life" made up of three planes; paradise, purgatory, and the inferno. I cannot speak to it beyond theological terms as never witnessed nor felt anything spiritual in my existence. |
Can it be described using only positive terms? Negative terms aren't super helpful. For example, if I tell you the object I'm thinking of is not huge, is not purple, is not sharp, and is not cube-shaped, what object are you thinking of? It's a basketball.
Describing something by what it is not will tell us nothing about what it is unless we have an exhaustive list which would require omniscience.
| o_O.Q said: something to keep in mind is that even though we believe we have a comprehensive understanding of our environment scientists themselves state that over 95% of the matter around us is not measurable with our current instrumentation imo its naive to claim that the concept of a supernatural realm that is imperceptible to us is impossible or just there to alleviate our fear of death when we admittedly have such an incomplete picture of what's going on |
I think you're confused about the distinction between the negative position and the antithetical position.
The negative position is not a claim, merely a skeptical stance to a positive claim. I.E. someone claims spirits/souls exist, the negative position is to say - prove it. This is much different than the antithetical position which is to respond - no, spirits/souls do not exist.
Until one has sufficient reason to believe something is so, the appropriate rational response is doubt. This is to avoid holding potentially untrue and/or unjustified beliefs.
