Mid-afternoon.
You are in the cafe bar at Barnes and
Noble near Fields-Ertel Road after a late lunch at nearby Potbelly's. You
stopped at King's Performance as it was on the way; however, the Clarity Plug
In will not be available for inspection for a couple more weeks. Carol is
looking for a new novel as she has not used her yearly credit yet. - Amorella
1431 hours. I wish I had had the brains
and talent to have written Milton's Paradise Lost.
Where
did that pop up from, boy? - Amorella
1434 hours. You tell me, Amorella. I
was thinking about something else but the wish is what I wrote.
Now you are thinking it is an old fashioned
sin to have had such a wish. - Amorella
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Envy
From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
Envy (from Latin invidia) is an emotion which
"occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or
possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it".
Bertrand Russell said
that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. Not only is the
envious person rendered unhappy by his or her envy, Russell explained, but that
person also wishes to inflict misfortune on others. Although envy is generally
seen as something negative, Russell also believed that envy was a driving force
behind the movement towards democracy and must be endured to achieve a more
just social system. However, psychologists have recently suggested that there
may be two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envy—malicious envy being
proposed as a sick force that ruins a person and his/her mind and causes the
envious person to blindly want the "hero" to suffer; on the other
hand, benign envy being proposed as a type of positive motivational force
that causes the person to aspire to be as good as the "hero"—but only
if benign envy is used in a right way. Envy and gloating have parallel
structures as emotions.
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from Wikipedia - envy
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1451 hours. I quickly discovered that
my envy is benign envy. I certainly would not wish that Milton did not write Paradise
Lost. However, my conflict would be that would definitely not wish that I
could write as well as Milton, yet, alas, that is exactly what I wished for. On
another note, I take humor is seeing that envy and gloating have parallel
structures as emotion. -- I don't see why human-like emotions cannot be
programmed into machines along with reason and a parallel mathematical equation
to take into account heart and mind (moral) thinking; perhaps not now, but
later, at least the rudiments of morally factored decision making.
At
least you left the 'soul' equation out. - Amorella
1501 hours. I am thinking solely of a
program to view potential decisions a person or a culture might make under a
given set of circumstances, something better than an educated guess.
Your
thinking has jumped to delineating the soul since you don't know what it is,
not the composition but the use.
1509 hours. I have always been
interested in such esoteric matters that have no practical use, at least from
my perspective.
As
a reminder let's go to Wikipedia for a definition (even though you have listed
it earlier in this many-yeared blog.) --Amorella
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Soul
From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
In many religious,
philosophical and mythological traditions, there is a belief in the incorporeal
essence of a living being called the soul.
Soul or psyche
(Greek: "psyühē", of "psychein", "to breathe")
are the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling,
consciousness, memory, perception, thinking, etc.
Depending on the
philosophical system, a soul can either be mortal or immortal. In
Judeo-Christianity, only human beings have immortal souls (although immortality
is disputed within Judaism and may have been influenced by Plato, and in
Eastern Orthodox Christianity the soul is said to be immortal by grace, but not
nature). For example, the Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas attributed
"soul" (anima) to all
organisms but argued that only human souls are immortal. Other religions (most
notably Hinduism and Jainism) hold that all biological organisms have souls (
atman) and a 'vital principle' (p rana), as did Aristotle. Some teach that even
non-biological entities (such as rivers and mountains) possess souls. The
latter belief is called animism.
Greek philosophers,
such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, understood that the soul (ψυχή ˆpsuche) must have a logical faculty, the
exercise of which was the most divine of human actions. At his defense trial,
Socrates even summarized his teaching as nothing other than an exhortation for
his fellow Athenians to excel in matters of the psyche since all bodily goods
are dependent on such excellence (Apology
30a–b).
Anima mundi is the concept of a
"world soul" connecting all living organisms on planet Earth.
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and edited from Wikipedia - soul
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You
stopped at Graeter's (Carol's suggestion) and you have since been waiting for
Carol at Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery Road (cooking at Kim's tomorrow afternoon).
- Amorella
1618 hours. I like the Eastern
Orthodox Christianity stating that the soul is said to be immortal by grace,
but not nature. I would like to hear a discussion on that topic. That's of
added peak interest to me. I can understand and have sympathy for both points
of view.
Why
don't we see what your heartansoulanmind has decided on the topic?
1613 hours. I did not know we could do
that. I assume this is an unconscious decision since I have not made up my mind
which is closer to my sense of self -- 'Is the soul granted immortality by
grace or is immortality its innate nature?'
You
are home, groceries are unpacked. If you go out again you are wearing a coat, the
wind has picked up and the temperature has dropped to barely above freezing
with snow flurries earlier. - Amorella
1644 hours. Have I made an unconscious
decision as to the soul and its immortality?
You
have, but this is to be labelled an informal argument and I, the Amorella, will
construct it to fit within that parameter, as it were, of a human spirit's
argument, that is, if the spirit were no longer shackled to the physical body.
It is not the matter of legalize or formal argument earthly argument. Assume
you are a freed human spirit, and dead, in the usual sense of things. -
Amorella
1651 hours. Wow. This is getting
interesting. I like the concept. Who is the witness, that is if you are doing
the construction?
An
Angel sitting in the audience. This is a construction set similar to your favorite
play, Our Town. We will script this off stage then drop it in today's or
tomorrow's post. I will measure the three characters: (your) Heart, Mind, and
Soul. You are watching but are captured in the empty space between the Angel
and myself playing the parts. Your heartansoulanmind will be directing. Do you
have any questions? - Amorella
1701 hours. Not at the moment.
Post.
- Amorella
1703 hours. I really like this
concept, but it is somewhat scary to think on; for one, I will not know if this
is fiction or non-fiction.
You and Carol each had a light supper
of homemade soup and half a bagel; then after watching ABC News you drove to
Kroger's to pick up a gallon of milk forgotten on the earlier trip. Before
supper, when taking your evening meds you got up from the dining room chair and
pulled the muscle in your upper left thigh. Sharp pains have somewhat subsided
after taking a doctor prescribed cyclobenzaprine HCL tablet (Flexeril). The
tablet does make you sleepy however.
2016 hours. I am sitting in the black
lounger ready for bed and don't feel ready to tackle this new theatrical assignment
presently. I am intrigued though. I have no imagination as to what the script
is that will flow from my fingertips to keys.
Remember,
we will work on this in a new document with the working title: "Dialogue
2017". - Amorella
2027 hours. Let's go set it up.
2105 hours.
Here is an initial draft of the formal setup of Dialogue 2017.
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"Dialogue
2017"
This is a short
philosophical dialogue
from a free-of-body
unnamed human spirit.
This spirit is made up
of an individual's heart and mind
which is held safely
intact within an immortal soul.
The Questions:
"Is our soul
granted immortality by grace?
or
Is our soul's
immortality innate by nature?"
The Audience is
Composed of a nearby Higher Order Angel
and you, the Living
Reader
***
Post.
- Amorella
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