Materialism = Spirituality

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Materialism = Spirituality Anonymous 03/09/15 (Mon) 21:05:03 No.888

A. Take that after death is a state of non-existence with no form.

B. Take that before birth is a state of non-existence with no form.

C. Take that life attains a unique form from a state of non existence that is considered a self.

D. Take that all states of non-existence are indistinguishable, being absent of form.

If we accept A,B,C and D, one must conclude after death experience is not precluded to begin again in any form. Also that form can be experienced by an entity considered to be yourself.

This perplexes me, because a materialistic philosophy logically concludes some element of dualism in a continued yet disjointed experience. It is not a contradictory belief.

If anyone disagrees please speak up.

Anonymous 03/11/15 (Wed) 02:56:17 No.893

You might enjoy Alan Watt's lay views on monism. If you end up finding Watts understandable you might enjoy eastern metaphysics.

I'll make a better comment some other day when I'm not so tired.

Anonymous 03/11/15 (Wed) 05:45:01 No.894

>>893
I'll read about it in the mean time. Thank you.

Anonymous 03/23/15 (Mon) 05:44:48 No.927

>>888
>one must conclude after death experience is not precluded to begin again in any form
What do you mean with "after death experiences can't begin again"?

Also, it is not necessary to accept the notion that non-existence can be a "state". This is why most materalistic philosophies completely ignore non-existence, because it can only be referred to with terms designed to describe existence specifically.

And I don't quite understand the use of the term "spirituality", since even if materialism implies a degree of dualism, it does not in doing so propose spirituality, let alone equate to it. Though I assume this is a strictly terminological issue.