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What happens after deaths accordingly to you. Is the soul thing is true or myth. How do you define soul.

Dushyant 4 July 22
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No soul and you return to the cosmos for another run at eternity.

Marine Level 8 July 28, 2018
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What happens after death? Life goes on but without you, you just cease to exist, thankfully I might add, I wouldn't want to be cursed with eternal life.

As for the soul, I think there's no such thing.

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People speak of breaking the spirit of a horse in order to tame it. This implies a soul for the horse. I go with the adage that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A hand by itself can't do anything. If there is such a thing as a 'soul' it would have to be part of the whole. That being said, a wheel from a car can't do the same thing as the car itself. Why does a soul have to exist? I have no memories prior to my birth and no expectations of memories after my death.

xyz123 Level 7 July 22, 2018

True " A hand by itself can't do anything, perhaps brain sending it a signal, but who is giving signals to brain what to think.

@Dushyant Isn't the brain sufficient to send the signal? In my opinion, it is. The need for a higher power directing a person seems irrational to me. It also doesn't explain the evil that men do to men -- and a 'test' of character is simply sophistry to accept that evil.

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This is more profound than religion or any set of beliefs. We are self aware because of that something that religion attributes to the soul and science keeps trying to attribute to something it can't put the finger on just yet. What does make inanimate matter (all our atoms) become not just alive but self aware with it's own thoughts and feelings? That's a big question and it seems all that goes away the very same minute life leaves the body. What happens, where does it go? We will know the day Houdini comes back, as he promise he would. So far, it seems that he did miscalculate the task just a little bit.

Do you mean life is soul

@Dushyant no, I mean self awareness is the property that science is trying to understand

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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. When you're gone, you're gone; except perhaps not from the minds of those who loved you. That's about as "permanent" or about as much "soul" as it gets. Of course this is all speculative opinion, but nobody has come back and contradicted it that I know of.

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I don't have to define "soul" because it's not a term I use. If someone else wants to use it, let them try to define it.
That'll be fun.

Gareth Level 7 July 22, 2018

Isn't that the whole point of this culture? To debate, define, question? Or is there an aloof, doctrinaire assumption or set of principles that members are required to accept. Fun? Then let's have some fun without condescension or smirk. Yes - there is an energy that comprises any living being. Ask your friendly physicist. And energy can be neither created nor destroyed. We all possess electrical energy at the very least. So, soul could be the imagination's attempt to define that literal "spark" that streams from synapse to synapse in the brain. Even Einstein postulated that "Imagination is more important than knowledge." So, how about tuning up that imagination, firing up your synapses, turning off the smirk, and having some fun? 🙂

@skye724 I don't need to ask a physicist, I was one myself once. And for me, foolishness is not fun. I don't decry others getting their enjoyment from it, but leave me out.
[Edit - toned down]

@skye724 impressive

@Dushyant Thanks!

@Gareth You need only not participate to be counted out. Correct?

@skye724 "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

@Gareth Do you perceive this discussion to be evil? That's kind of interesting...

@skye724 No, I perceive it to be inutile.

@Gareth Thanks for the clarification. I enjoy inutile conversations. That's where genuine creativity and new exploration are often born.

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If there is a realm of existence beyond bodily death, it would be a purely natural production and not the result of some supernatural deity. There are some who accept the theory of evolution while at the same time believing in the existence of a soul that continues in the afterlife. To these ‘troubled souls’ I would ask, when in our evolutionary development did this condition arise? Did early hominids have souls? Is Lucy’s still out there, having roamed the African plain for the past 3 million years? Were there early crude, undeveloped or vestigial souls that, like George Carlin’s ‘Frisbeetarians’ whose souls get stuck on the roof, didn’t quite make it to immortality? What about other animals? The entire soul idea can be a huge time waster—a distraction from what should be our primary focus: the present, and this one life we have.

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Nothingness I hope - I don't believe in a soul so I can't define it

jacpod Level 8 July 22, 2018
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