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What the brain is really for (get ready for this)

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Literal is physical is it not? I can't tell you what it is in the spiritual but God does have one.

Perhaps you should think God is figure of speech because you can't answer that either.

If God's breath is a figure speech then a good part of the Bible is just a figure of speech in your opinion.
Is Jesus a door, a vine? Literally? I dare say he is such (if he is anything), he is such as a figure of speech or a metaphor.

And if you can't tell what "it is in the spiritual", then perhaps you should abstain from proclaiming definitively to know whether it is literal or figurative.
 
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Is Jesus a door, a vine? Literally? I dare say he is such (if he is anything), he is such as a figure of speech or a metaphor.

And if you can't tell what "it is in the spiritual", then perhaps you should abstain from proclaiming definitively to know whether it is literal or figurative.
You dont even believe in a God anyhow, so I'm wasting my breath literally.

John 12
29The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him. 30In response, Jesus said, “This voice was not for My benefit, but yours.
 
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You dont even believe in a God anyhow, so I'm wasting my breath literally.

John 12
29The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him. 30In response, Jesus said, “This voice was not for My benefit, but yours.
Seriously, if you can't explain something, you should reconsider claiming definitive beliefs.

It's just basic epistemology.
 
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So you got nothing.
Hazelelponi helped me to remind of the breath.

John 20
22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Gen 2
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

A breath is life.
 
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A fish is a example, fish breathe in water and consume the oxygen, unlike humans who consume oxygen from gases.

Cladistically "fish" are either all creatures with skulls or are limited to the ones with skulls and jaws. Tetrapods are included in both. It depends on if you want to include lampreys and other "jawless fish or not".
 
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Cladistically "fish" are either all creatures with skulls or are limited to the ones with skulls and jaws. Tetrapods are included in both. It depends on if you want to include lampreys and other "jawless fish or not".
I'd even include the starfish breathe through its skin. Around 1900 species in and out the water that breathe through the skin. Probably afew ways other animals breathe besides having skin or lungs. Sea coral have a cellular respiration.
 
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First and foremost the spiritual world is nothing like the physical.
So it wouldn't be like the air we breathe.

A fish is a example, fish breathe in water and consume the oxygen, unlike humans who consume oxygen from gases.
There are fish that breathe just fine out of the water.
Fish that would drown if you kept them underwater.
 
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What happens if you get a transfusion
A transfusion does not change who you are ….and it absolutely does not alter your DNA. However .....
it is possible to detect a very small amount of the donor’s DNA for up to a week after the transfusion ….but it won’t last.
 
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A transfusion does not change who you are ….and it absolutely does not alter your DNA. However .....
it is possible to detect a very small amount of the donor’s DNA for up to a week after the transfusion ….but it won’t last.
We know all of that.

The q was obviously about getting
infested with part of someone else's soul.
 
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