While I don't abide the biblical version, I get the intent. For lack of a better word, I define a 'soul' as that innermost sentient self.
'Great souls have wills, feeble ones have only wishes.' -Chinese Proverb
While I don't abide the biblical version, I get the intent. For lack of a better word, I define a 'soul' as that innermost sentient self.
'Great souls have wills, feeble ones have only wishes.' -Chinese Proverb
Ya gotta have Soul !
According to the Bible, Genesis 2:7 Man is a living breathing Soul. Aka Your Body...
It's not inside of you.
i sold my soul for rock n roll
I prefer leather to rubber
Personal opinion? It's that little bit of us that makes us individual. The personality, the subconscious, the sum of all our experiences and all our knowledge. Is it immortal? I'd hardly think so but that's a field in which there are some very interesting ideas and experiences.
Some people don't have one.
I try to limit my thinking to that which manifests itself in the real world.
Unless you meant "soul" metaphorically/pilisophically.
You can transplant any organ, even every organ, into a different body, but that won't give the receiver the same personality as the donor. My theory is there is something more that makes us who we are that we are given at birth, and that is a soul. Now if matter cannot be created or destroyed then a soul is an everlasting thing, perhaps they get wiped clean and reused like the Buddhists believe, or maybe continue on without an assigned body, like "ghosts". I guess finding out when we get to the end is the fun in it all.
Geneses 2:7 says And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life,and the man came to be a living person." soul is the person himself. . And at Eziekle 18:4 it states, "Look! All the souls, "or lives,or person" to me they belong. As the soul of the father so also the soul of the son - to me they belong the soul who sins is the one who will die. Eziekle 18:20, "The soul who sins is the one who will die"
Some people try to separate philosophy and science as indicated above.
That's both misleading and a waste of time.
Aristotle explained multiplicity in the order of existence by two principles of being---primary matter and substantial form.
The relation of the soul to the body is a parallel concept---the soul, which is immortal---shares it's act of existence with the body.
Death occurs when it no longer does so. Subsequently, the soul takes on a resurrected body---now changed to be appropriate for the new mode of existence we will find ourselves in.
Now if that---whether right or wrong---doesn't sound like something that is going to be fascinating for each of us.......Well frankly, I'd be concerned that your soul may have already left your body---possibly as a way of expressing its opinion about your philosophy.
As a literal spirit that can move from your body to . . . Elsewhere? I do not believe in it.
I believe the closest we have to what it COULD be is, our conscious and subconscious self. It is the several neurons firing all at the same time that give you thoughts, desires, and memories. It is those things we THINK we can control and those things that have been formed throughout the years forging that impulsive brain, to act on how it has been trained to.
I once had someone tell me that according to the bible that humans are the only ones that have souls. Anyone who has a dog, or just about any pet, knows that can't be true. I contend they have the best souls. All you have to is have a bad day and they know and will cheer you up simply by greeting you. They also seem to instinctively know when you don't cheering up, but rather someone to just sit quietly with you. You cannot tell me something that connected to a person doesn't have a soul.
If we have no soul or something eternal then life has no intrinsic meaning. Without free-will you are just a machine (determinim and material). It doesn't matter what you do or accomplish you are a machine so it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you leave the world a better place, it doesn't matter about scientific accomplishment, whether you are free or a slave because at the end of it we all cease to exist all for no reason or meaning. The fact that I can contemplate my own life and death tells me we are more than that. Language comes from a mind. Us humans are very different to any other species, we adapt our surroundings to suit us, and we harvest our environment. We are creative for it's own sake. These ideas about the soul and people living in a different realms after death go back thousands of years, they are enbedded in our language, holiday rituals, the symbols around us, our music, stories, advertisments etc. The mystery schools of Babylonian and esoteric knowledge has been passed down, if these things didn't have a meaning then why bother?
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