Quote of the Day - Virginia Woolf

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   Kenna McHughposted 5 months ago

   
   “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
   ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

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   paradigmsearchposted 5 months ago

   I have to disagree with Virginia on this one, genetics and environment being the two main culprits.

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      Kenna McHughposted 5 months agoin reply to this

      I can understand that. Don't you think the mind can control those?

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         paradigmsearchposted 5 months agoin reply to this

         The brain is hardware. The mind is software. Software can only work when the hardware does. Drop by YouTube and do a search for the word, "psychotic". Frankly, I declined to click on any of the links; but if that is what you must do in order to be convinced, then I guess you will have to do so.

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            Kenna McHughposted 5 months agoin reply to this

            The time we stop acknowledging the spirit, as a culture, we die. The spirit uses the mind to compute.

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               paradigmsearchposted 5 months agoin reply to this

               Am amendable to the concept of spirit. The spirit is what causes self-awareness of how the mind is working. Unfortunately, both require a physiologically functioning brain; otherwise, we could apply the same logic to a hockey puck.

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   Kenna McHughposted 5 months ago

   I am having fun discussing this with you.  The brain is the switchboard that runs the body.

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      paradigmsearchposted 5 months agoin reply to this

      And we all know what happens when that switchboard goes haywire.

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         Kenna McHughposted 5 months agoin reply to this

         The body doesn't function well.

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