<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Azred:
<font color = lightgreen>Unfortunately, I would have to give the poor student from Micah's post a "B". He hypothesizes that if souls exist then they must have mass; sadly, this is not always the case. Many things exist but have no mass. My next question to him would have been: rest mass or relativistic mass? Also, to speak of Hell expanding or contracting implies either some sort of volumetric limitation, since a limitless expanse may neither shrink nor expand. Besides, set theory/topology proves that you may slice apart the volume of a golf ball, throw away some of the volume, then reconstruct a volume the size of the Sun; to measure the expansion/contraction of Hell implies a measurable volume--a task I, personally, would not care to undertake.

hmmm....went a little of the deep end there for a sec. Oh, well.

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Not at all. Well done. [img]smile.gif[/img]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Azred:
<font color = lightgreen>Unfortunately, I would have to give the poor student from Micah's post a "B". He hypothesizes that if souls exist then they must have mass; sadly, this is not always the case. Many things exist but have no mass [/font] <hr></blockquote>

name one.

Photon? nope.

neutrino? nope.

graviton? nope.

tachyon? hypothetical, but still no.

proof:

E=MC^2.

if M = 0 (no mass) then MC^2 = 0, then E=0, therefore no energy either. No mass and No energy means it dosent exist.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by andrewas:


name one.

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Love, hope, language, music theory, philosophy, anger - anything abstract rather than concrete.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Yorick:

Love, hope, language, music theory, philosophy, anger - anything abstract rather than concrete.<hr></blockquote>

Ooo! You're rapidly approaching the inevitable 'What defines existence?' question there, Yorick.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Galadria:
LOL. That reminds me of the story of the Philosophy prof who, on the final exam, merely came in and wrote on the blackboard the simple question, "Why?" Most students wrote long answers and got poor grades. The only two "A's" were for the answers, "Because," and "Why not?"<hr></blockquote>

Now that is definitely a myth ;) . Most probably made up by someone who doesn't understand philosophy and how it is taught. Like a friend of mine asked me once what we did in Philosophy of Consciousness tutorials, "like, talk about the 'if the tree fell in the forest' thing or something". Duh :D