[lbo-talk] Re: Bush and his God

[Bill Bartlett]

Oh well, beyond the physical sense I would readily that I don't 
exist. But that isn't what he said, he insisted that we must abandon 
our "backward" belief in self. My "self" is a real physical thing, 
having a definite mass. If I were to foolishly follow his advice and 
abandon my belief in this real physical existence, I might become 
prone to all sorts of nasty accidents with unfortunate consequences 
not only to my own "self", but to anyone else I should go crashing 
into.

So he's talking codswallop.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas

At 7:30 AM -0700 14/6/04, Chris Doss wrote:


>He is not talking about the physical self. He is talking about the 
>metaphysical subject. Read some Hume.
>
>Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at dodo.com.au> wrote:
>
>At 9:13 AM -0400 14/6/04, BklynMagus wrote:
>
>>Bill asked about not existing.
>>
>>I have posted several times on what I mean. If you check the
>>archives you will be able to find it.
>
>Saw it, made no sense to me, thought you might be able to re-phrase
>it. Or had maybe thought about it some more. Still makes no sense to
>me to claim that people don't exist.