Dear David,

I feel sad for you for thinking that you are just a body - as well as for others who as a result of believing this to be the case, desperately believe that if they fail to recognise and fulfil that body's sexual desires then they fail altogether in fulfilling life's purpose.

Even if your statement: "Our mind and whatever feelings we have, even those of spirituality, come from our body" is true, then all it would mean is that once our body dies, we will no longer have a mind and feelings - OK, I don't deny that possibility but even in that case it still wouldn't stop us from being who we are, it would only make us devoid of mind and feelings.

We have been already through this logic:

1. We are our body.
2. When we die and our body decays that is the end of us

Therefore:

2A. When we die and our body's body decays that is the end of our body
2B. When our body dies and our body's body's body decays that is the end of our body's body
2C. When our body's body dies and our body's body's body's body decays that is the end of our body's body's body
...

Believing that one is one's body is appealing because it allows for the comfort of helpless irresponsibility, including in the area of sexuality.

Dear Josephus,

There is a continuity even though all the cells may be replaced. Our character like everything else about us comes from our body. Without our body we don't exist. Children like everybody else should know what is real. Our body is not only the vehicle. It is what we are.

God and all the other supernatural fantasies are only human inventions. Our physical being and the matter and energy around our physical being are the only reality.

david f,
I know some very distorted bodies who are wonderful characters, and some wonderful bodies who are very distorted characters. Our bodies do not produce who we are, our spirit produces who we are. Our spirit is formed from ideas presented to us throughout our learning. Ideas are learned are not physical though they are stored in the physical brain. What is transferred from one body to the other is spiritual - the real being of ourselves.

Dear Josephus,

If you want to believe in nonsense, you will believe in nonsense.

The real being of ourselves is our body - not some imaginary spirit. What we imagine is not what is real.

Tamum shud

I should recognize it is pointless conversing with a spiritually dead person. The living dead!

Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny.