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What is a soul, and do we have one?
Posted on: May 28, 2007 - 11:44pm
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What is a soul, and do we have one?
I've always wondered to myself, what exactly is a "soul"? Is it something that people with religions believe all people have, or is it something everybody has?
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It's a primitive explanation for consciousness and nobody actually has one.
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As for your question, I think that theists believe that all people have them, even atheists.
I personally disagree that there is such a thing as a soul that continues to exist after we die.
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James Brown sure had soul, or so his fans would say.
I must respectfully disagree, BGH.
James Brown was the Father of Soul!
Amen.
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I think i really depends. I think plato or arisltole ,i forget which one, thought it was the form of a person. So in that since there maybe a soul, but the mainstrem defination: an immaterial part of someone which exists for enterity. Is , to put it bluntly, nonsense. Immaterial is an incoherent term which cannot refer to anything. Therefore an immaterial part of a person cannot by defination exist.
Don't you people know yet that it is in the pineal gland?! GAWD. That's only been a known fact for, like, ever. Or since Descartes said it. Yeah. *rolls eyes*
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C'mon Kelly, you know that's just a theory. Teach the controversy! We all know the soul is located in the liver. Can Descartes overturn a thousand years of Egyptian science?
That is why we must drink beer and be happy, for in drinking we are distroying the liver and letting our soul go free. Pasta of course is the ultimate accompaniment to beer, just ask any pirate.
RAmen.
Organised religion is the ultimate form of blasphemy.
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I think you just invented a religion worth following. Heck, I was going to make beer battered fried catfish and drink some wine. Now I know why it's called soul food.
The best thing...we don't have to wait 2000 years for another beer.
Last time I looked my name was Jim, not Bobby Henderson. I'm simply talking about Pastafarianism, and already-established religion to which I subscribe(?).
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Thanks for the warm welcome, Susan!
Honestly, I've never had a true definition of what a soul is but "your inner spirit" or something along those lines, and I know that all thoughts and feelings are controlled by the mind, not a so-called "soul". They are supposed to continue to exist after we die, which I'm sure many of us doubt.
What an absurd concept that a disimbodied brain exists, be it a "soul" or "deity".
How exactly would the neurons move information without brain matter? How exactly do we see without eyes? How exactly do endorphines get released without a mechinism in the brain to do so? Where would these electric impuses and chemicals reside?
Its just as absurd with thinking of a deity hiding in the cosmos somewhere?
If you take a Hubble picture of deep space and put it next to a sample of disected brain any baboon with half a brain can see that the two are completely dissimilar.
There are even those who think of the universe as a giant conciousness. That is just as hokie.
What would the giant version of a neuron be? Where would the cerebelum be?
It is all superstition that people project their own anthropromorphic egos onto an object. The universe is an object, not a being.
It is easy to understand what people do. Watch a childrens cartoon where a dog or tree talk like a human. The problem with superstition is that people actually believe that non-human things have human qualities. It is quite unfortunate and disturbing in this day and age when myth and superstition should have died by now through use of logic and reason.
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The term "soul" is a word Christians and other theists have assigned to their consciousness. It is differentiated from the term consciousness only in that it is representative of an immortal self (a supernatural self).
Basically, they fear death so they have named a part of themselves differently in hopes that this new name and its supernatural definition will some how help them avoid death. It’s a psychological game they play with themselves – not surprisingly; all evidence shows we’ve never had a winner.
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