Dualism (Identity)

by dhw, Thursday, March 26, 2015, 19:20 (3529 days ago) @ BBella

dhw (to Tony:) On an overall level, I dispute almost all of your basic premises, but I am doing my best to stay within your own theistic framework to test some of those premises, as detailed above.-BELLA: Just want to add my appreciation of this discussion and dhw's questions, testing Tony's theistic belief's (most of which were my own for many years) and hearing Tony's answers to his probing. Hearing my own (past) views discussed from different points of view (including Davids and my own current view) is truly helping me to once again ponder these things.-Thank you for this. What unites us on this forum is a genuine desire to understand how (and maybe why) we got here. I'm not much help when it comes to offering a convincing explanation, but I think we can all learn from these exchanges. I have to say that your own extraordinary experiences, which you have very openly described to us over the years, are an important factor for me in keeping the balance between the known and the unknown. And as I plod the lonely path of the much maligned agnostic, assailed from all sides, it comforts me to know that at least BBella is not tut-tutting at my expressions of doubt!