Is there such a thing as a "Soul"?

INB4 move into PRSI...

I believe our souls are recycled forever, the universe is forever, in all sense, it always existed, it will never end, whatever happens will loop forever, our paths are set by laws that are not understood, and never will be by someone greater, I don't believe there's a god, but there is something out there that we don't know about.

 

Is there such thing as a "Soul"?

No.

 

/thread.

 

If only it were that easy... the world would be a much calmer place.

 

Tell that to the Pescartarians.

 

Depends what you define as a "soul".

Some say it's like a wee ghost that piddles about the body night and day and is released on death where it can wonder around playing Football with other wee ghosts.

I don't know what my take on it is. I believe the soul is some kind of consciousness in the brain that brings in personality, hopes, fears and all that which is mostly carved from a young age from previous experiences. I don't think it's something that floats around but I do think it's something that makes you you. Be it just a more encompassing term for personality.

And dull. All these modernist super liberals say we should all be different. And they've got it right since lots of people think in lots of different ways.

 

Only if you are good at the Blues.

 

I don't see what souls have to do with crossing the street.

 

200,000 years of human existence and not a single piece of evidence. I'd say no. We just think there's such a thing because our consciousness seems to add a spatial quality to the mind, thus it appears to us like we're sort of inside of our bodies. We're not. Just as the things we perceive are really not that solid (everything is mostly empty space). It's a sort of optical illusion. /demented rambling

 

Stop floundering with my pun.

 

There's something fishy about this post...

 

I think your pun had scales and was gutted.

 

Ok... that seemed funny before I posted

 

If you keep your head covered with a piece of tinfoil, your soul cannot escape from your body. The shiny side of the foil must be facing down though. If the matte side is facing down, your soul will escape, and the foil will trap the heat from the sun's intense rays.

 

All these years I've had the matte side down... it explains so much...

 

I went down to the fishmarket this afternoon looking for a fish dinner. They were all soled out.


SLC

 

If you are speaking of a soul as in a spiritual copy of your brain that continues on living after physical death, then I say no. When the brain dies we cease to exist. If one wants to believe in recycled energy such as reincarnation then so be it, there is no convincing evidence either way. (Other than past life regression therapy which I personally do not take seriously.) But I think that to believe that after we die there is a copy of ourselves with all of our knowledge intact is wishful thinking.

 

I think it depends on the definition of "soul." Do we have identities and personalities? Certainly. Do we have an immortal and immaterial part of our being? I am inclined to think not.

 

Ask these Japanese guys.

 

There is no soul. Take my ex, for example.

 

I guess I'll be in the minority here by saying, yes, there is such a thing as a soul.

 

I've going to digress from the font of humour engorging this thread and give you a straight answer:

We are a soul. The soul dies when we die.

When we die, the soul dies.

 

What happens if we die and are resuscitated?