Comments on: Brigham Young on Joie de Vivre http://www.jrganymede.com/2011/08/03/brigham-young-on-joie-de-vivre/ We endeavor to give satisfaction Tue, 22 May 2012 23:29:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Vader http://www.jrganymede.com/2011/08/03/brigham-young-on-joie-de-vivre/comment-page-1/#comment-40733 Vader Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:59:24 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=5593#comment-40733 The notion that the mind fools itself into believing it exists cuts donuts on the lawn in front of Plato's Cave. The notion that the mind fools itself into believing it exists cuts donuts on the lawn in front of Plato’s Cave.

]]> By: Adam Greenwood http://www.jrganymede.com/2011/08/03/brigham-young-on-joie-de-vivre/comment-page-1/#comment-40728 Adam Greenwood Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:48:27 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=5593#comment-40728 Neurologists have identified what they call "the extended mind," which is a phenomenon where you mind can treat tools you often use as parts of your body. Like everything else in neurology, this is taken as proof that consciousness is an illusion (who is being illuded, eh?), but it seems rather evidence of the way mortality and possessing bodies ourselves lets us expand our relationship with the material world. See here for a discussion: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/273502 (scroll down) Neurologists have identified what they call “the extended mind,” which is a phenomenon where you mind can treat tools you often use as parts of your body. Like everything else in neurology, this is taken as proof that consciousness is an illusion (who is being illuded, eh?), but it seems rather evidence of the way mortality and possessing bodies ourselves lets us expand our relationship with the material world.

See here for a discussion:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/273502 (scroll down)

]]> By: Adam Greenwood http://www.jrganymede.com/2011/08/03/brigham-young-on-joie-de-vivre/comment-page-1/#comment-40637 Adam Greenwood Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:56:13 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=5593#comment-40637 Quite so. I only wonder if, as our embodiment continues, so does not our experience of time. This would be a more sensible way of understanding the assertion that God continues to "progress." Not that He figures stuff out he doesn't already know, but that He accummulates more experience and more relationship. Quite so. I only wonder if, as our embodiment continues, so does not our experience of time.

This would be a more sensible way of understanding the assertion that God continues to “progress.” Not that He figures stuff out he doesn’t already know, but that He accummulates more experience and more relationship.

]]> By: Vader http://www.jrganymede.com/2011/08/03/brigham-young-on-joie-de-vivre/comment-page-1/#comment-40635 Vader Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:44:48 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=5593#comment-40635 I'm tempted to put it a little differently: When you are exalted, you will retain a foot inside time, namely, the time of your mortal experience. Which will in some way help ground the rest. I’m tempted to put it a little differently: When you are exalted, you will retain a foot inside time, namely, the time of your mortal experience. Which will in some way help ground the rest.

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