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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.True of false:

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We like to think so, but I doubt it very much, I like the idea that spirit comes from matter. Maybe the whole dichotomy is false.
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[quote]Maybe the whole dichotomy is false.[/quote]

In the engineering curriculum, the designers want you to have so many units of "analysis" courses and "synthesis" courses.

Analysis the breaking down of thing, the categorizing of parts, etc.

I think ppl tend to be stronger on analysis and so the overemphasize parts sometimes rather than looking at the whole.

If we have a spirit or soul (I personally believe we do), it is a part of our integrated whole...not.an accessory we put on when we wish...