The Soul
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Life and death is a continual process much like the ever expending universe, everything has a continual pulse, action causes reaction, no one will ever know of the exact outcome our souls gets introduced too. One thing is worth remembering is that everything has a pulse, everything is born or manufactured and everything faces the same fate, replacement by the new.
The soul is immortal
The soul is immortal
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In my thought process, what everyone calls the 'soul' is just what part of you that you leave in other's lives, their memories of you, that never dies.
If it can't be seen by medical scientists, then it is in one's brain, in their thoughts,
part of their intellect, their passion, their love, nothing to do with religion, the
poor soul, that sweet thoughtful person, that person we liked so much, he/she
was loving and kind, all of that is the heart and soul of the person.
If there was a 'real' part of us called a soul, it would be shown on a medical chart,
just like the heart, liver, etc.
If it can't be seen by medical scientists, then it is in one's brain, in their thoughts,
part of their intellect, their passion, their love, nothing to do with religion, the
poor soul, that sweet thoughtful person, that person we liked so much, he/she
was loving and kind, all of that is the heart and soul of the person.
If there was a 'real' part of us called a soul, it would be shown on a medical chart,
just like the heart, liver, etc.
Good post, Tal.
Now if I can start thinking of jerks like aPAULing Martin, Lyin Brian Bullroney, etc. as being sweet, thoughtful, loving, and kind, they might actually acquire a soul. lol
Now if I can start thinking of jerks like aPAULing Martin, Lyin Brian Bullroney, etc. as being sweet, thoughtful, loving, and kind, they might actually acquire a soul. lol
No. No part of your personality will survive the death of your body.
Nowhere. There's no such thing as a soul in the usual meaning of the word, it has no reality outside the realm of ideas, there's no good evidence it's anything more than a fiction. And there's no good evidence there's a place for it to go anyway.
Right. Nobody else has ever had one either, it's an invention of human wishful thinking, a non-entity. Think about it: a non-physical part of your personality, capable of perception without sense organs, capable of self-awareness and volition without a brain, and thus without a mind... Mystic nonsense.
Without going into some religious context here. Believing in only what you see is rediculous narrow minded. To me that too doesn't make sense. The only thing that remains true in the end is we are sure of nothing but everything can be possible.
Reality in the past was that the earth was flat, just look how far we travelled with that perception?
Whats the point of living this if it has no meaning?
On the contrary, one should accept a claim as true only when there's sufficient evidence to justify the claim. The default rational position is to doubt all claims until the evidence is in.
No, that wasn't reality, that was a delusion based on an incorrect understanding of insufficient evidence, which is pretty much my point here. Better to concede you don't know than to make it up.
What's the point of living this if the meaning is assigned by some deity and nobody can claim to understand it because of the presumed mysterious and incomprehensible nature of the deity? We make our own meanings.
Your personal experiences are what form your perception of reality. Every person has had different experiences so their perception is different. Therefore reality is subjective, not objective: it is whatever you believe it is. Religion and science both try to objectify reality in to one homogeneous whole so that everybody thinks the same, believes the same and therefore live in the same reality but it can't be done.
Our perception of reality is a belief system that has been taught to us, so most of in western society see reality in a similar way with personal variations. But many other cultures have different ways of seeing. I have, through association, been able to view reality from their perspectives and it can be vary different. That is why I came to the conclusion that reality is in the eye of the beholder. There are no hard and fast rules.
To me science can be as much of a religion for some as paulianity and Judaism. Many treat them as dogmatic, but there are those who understand that we have barely scratched the surface of understanding ourselves and our reality to know that to be dogmatic is to stunt our growth.
Our perception of reality is a belief system that has been taught to us, so most of in western society see reality in a similar way with personal variations. But many other cultures have different ways of seeing. I have, through association, been able to view reality from their perspectives and it can be vary different. That is why I came to the conclusion that reality is in the eye of the beholder. There are no hard and fast rules.
To me science can be as much of a religion for some as paulianity and Judaism. Many treat them as dogmatic, but there are those who understand that we have barely scratched the surface of understanding ourselves and our reality to know that to be dogmatic is to stunt our growth.
no one will ever have to worry about grasping anything, when dead.
life is life, and dead is dead, live your life well, build good memories for your
old age, enjoy your old age, and leave a good taste in the mouths of all of your
special people, so they will think well of you, after you are gone, and what you have done, will affect their lives too, so do it 'well', what you leave your family
and friends, re: who you were, is the only thing that will remain after you are gone.
What you leave to others, about you, after you are gone, is your heart and soul.
life is life, and dead is dead, live your life well, build good memories for your
old age, enjoy your old age, and leave a good taste in the mouths of all of your
special people, so they will think well of you, after you are gone, and what you have done, will affect their lives too, so do it 'well', what you leave your family
and friends, re: who you were, is the only thing that will remain after you are gone.
What you leave to others, about you, after you are gone, is your heart and soul.