Man consists of both body and soul (spirit).

When does the spirit attach itself to the body? Why does the spirit continue with the body, until death?

By the time we become aware of the spirit, it is already a part of us.

We think and we point to our brain. We love and we point to our heart.

I had a nervous break down in my early 40s. For a long time, that which happened before the breakdown seemed like it happened to a different person than afterwards.

We have no proof that the spirit leaves the body at the time of our death. A dead body cannot speak or move or communicate, but is that necessarily proof that the spirit is no longer with the body.

But, religion, tells us, or leads us to believe that the spirit continues on, without the body.

Do we make “moral” decisions based upon our spirit?

We couldn’t have “a living” body, without the spirit? Would that be a Zombie?

Does the spirit give the person coherence? By this I mean, the string of decisions and action we make and take through our life.

We do things daily to live. We awaken, eat, shower, poop, go to work, come home, relax, eat and sleep. But there are quality of life issues that we deal with, perhaps not every day. We find someone to love, date, marry, have children. We question “the meaning of life”. We make decisions upon some moral standard… or not.

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The things you can trust, on the non-spiritual plane in this life, appear to be few. Republicans took the “high moral ground.” People of intellect trusted in “Science,” even if they were religiously oriented. I could not have imagined that “an educated” individual would reject taking a vaccine for personal or societal protection, and that it would be even more unbelievable that someone in the medical profession would refuse taking a vaccine. Or wear a protective mask… to protect others and not themselves. To not trust the Government… after having spent enough years to retire from the Government. At what point did you stop trusting the Government? But, you do trust the Government enough for them to keep those retirement checks coming… don’t you?

Your parents trusted the Government when they were told to vaccinate you for Polio, didn’t they? You do wear a mask in the Operating Room, don’t you? It’s not a political statement to not wear one. If anything, the insurance company would refuse to protect the hospital, if the doctors & nurses didn’t wear masks during surgical procedures. It’s not political! It’s Science! How do you work in the medical profession and not be sold out to the merits of Science? How many pills do you take a day for various conditions or as corrective measures? Each an act of faith. So not taking the Vaccine means you don’t trust its ability to be a successful preventative to a disease. But, with millions of persons having taken “the Vaccine” and not suffered negatively, why are you choosing to focus on the relatively few examples of negative reactions? Okay, if God has told you not to, that’s okay with me.

The two major political parties in America, Republicans and Democrats, have chosen to not work with each other for quite a number of years now. MAGA, hell. MAGA is only possible if everyone is a Republican. How was America ever Great, when Democrats and Republicans worked together in Congress to get things done. There can be no greatness with compromise… So, I’m not sure how far back you have to go to say, “American was Great” then. When was “then” for you? Was America’s greatness just after WWII, or during WWII? Korea? Vietnam? Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan? Was America great during FDR’s Presidency? JFK’s? Or how about during the Nixon Whitehouse? Was America Great being when President Reagan was shot?

Damn, I can’t believe that an unruly, but highly organized, crowd, under the banner of Republicanism would actually march to the US Capitol, and storm the gates, in an attempt to overthrow a valid US Election of the President. How close did we come to the fall of America? We were pretty damned close. It doesn’t take an outside force such as China, Russia, Korea or Iran to attack American values for America to be brought low. Just have someone in Power question the validity of the Election and suggest “taking action” to correct that wrong. *I’m not saying that there are examples of “cheating” that have gone on during Elections. But, in North Carolina, the one major example of cheating, during Elections, came from a Republican down in Bladen County that was collecting Absentee Ballots and guaranteeing election results. And, he, I believe is still getting away without being prosecuted because he has Cancer. *I stand corrected!