@OmSigDAVID,
The image of a man . . . and I see you as a 70+ year old with permanently curled, prominently veined fingers at the keyboard . . . typing out his rants about guns and spelling turning around and behaving like either a 20-something co-ed in a swirling floral print skirt or the 40ish owner of a shop that sells incense and stones . . . is hysterical.
Ah, David! Have you ever read anything on government . . . on political science . . . on history?
You seem to lack a great deal of information. That's not an insult but an observation.
It is such a contradiction that you a so into this out of body stuff . . . which many people would simply say is an example is due to an extreme emotional situation and not to the actual separation of the body from the soul, spirit, actuating principle or whatever you may want to call that glue that seems to hold a body together and give it life.
And, sorry, but most if not all libertarians are solidly materialistic.
Materialism is, in and of itself, neutral. After all, materialism can be interpreted as the force that causes people to care for things and preserve them; to honor the artistic. Yeah, some would say that the spiritual and not the material is behind those impulses . . . but . . . here, both the love of the spiritual and the longing for the material can and do act in consort.
It is only when materialism overtakes all other impulses or distorts other impulses that it becomes an evil.
Communists and Democrats . . . whether their C's and D's are large or small . . . spiritual leaders . . . and more are materialists.
Gee, I just wish you would either learn something about communism . . . both large and small C . . . or pick the needle up off your record.
