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but that argument would never persuade anyone, it's just intellectual autofellatio for people who are already on that side of the debate.
if your belief system incorporates souls or spirits, then the fact that they can't be measured surely is even more proof for them existing outside the "real world". just like how someone who believes in reincarnation wouldn't believe that your good and bad deeds are somehow tallied chemically within your body, but kept track of in some incorporeal way, to be used after you've left the mortal coil.
all of these systems are based on coincidence and things that are inherently unknowable, like prayer or what happens to your conscience when you die. trying to logic someone out of a belief system isn't worth the effort or even an interesting endeavour.
It didn't seem at all like an argument to me or an attempt by the OP to persuade anyone of anything. I read it as a description of their thought process as to how they arrived at the conclusions they did in their own life.
While some might find that enlightening if open to it or threatening if they disagree, it didn't strike me as an attempt to talk me into their (non)religion.
i've never seen someone write like that just for sharing.
I call it geeking out which is usually instead about anime plots or TTRPG characters and worlds. And it's a habit of us neurospicy folk that often scares those who aren't.
My whole point was that while Trump's memo was meant to enable Christian proselytizers, there is a whole demographic of thinkers (mad, free or otherwise) who will also be enabled, so this may well be a Chesterton's Fence issue, especially if those thinkers are the office clerks who are super good at data crunching and making sure the LAN doesn't fall apart.