Do all humans have souls?

[AstroTurf]

I believe that everything gets recycled and ultimately we are all what we were and what we will be.
Carbon.

 

[Sherbang]

you need to define what a soul is. there is no afterlife unless you can show it to us

I can show you the afterlife, no problem.

i can demonstrate evidnce for air in multiple ways, show me one way you can demonstrate an afterlife other than a guy coming back from the dead and writing about it. an afterlife is still plausible until you begin giving rules and restrictions for who can get into the afterlife. if it's real, it can be proven by science

That's the biggest myth around.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I see no evidence for a soul. Until shown otherwise there is no purpose in supporting the idea.

 

[Dolby]

If male souls were fattening, less females would eat them

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I have a strong belief in life after death, along the lines of we all have souls, each life a test on the building of ones soul, at one stage I believed all humans had souls, but that belief began to falter when you see what hatred some people afflict on other humans, the rapist,murderers,soldiers..... The world is just a sick place , at times I often think that earth might actually be hell........

So do you believe that all humans have souls?

Why do you think any humans have souls?

 

[buyeye]

The thing about being a christian and life in general is that you have to form your own opinions.

You can take in the teachings of your teachers or scripture, at the end you must make up your own mind.

As far as I can tell you know bible teachings and have experienced the supernatural. It is easier to try and forget, pretend like none of those things ever existed.

 

[Mortymoose]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Yes, I researched that a while back, however, it does not explain how I was able to view myself and my brother sleeping below , it also does not account for me being able to "drift" through the top of our door into our hallway .....

 

[STS]

I can show you the afterlife, no problem.

that's the biggest myth around.

will i be able to come back and say thanks?

science doesn't have all the answers, but it does help pinpoint places or demonstrate some things

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Yes, I researched that a while back, however, it does not explain how I was able to view myself and my brother sleeping below , it also does not account for me being able to "drift" through the top of our door into our hallway .....

 

[Keegan]

Yes...

Dr. MacDougall says it weighs 21Grams.

 

[GhostSixFour]

will i be able to come back and say thanks?

science doesn't have all the answers, but it does help pinpoint places or demonstrate some things

Is this the same science that says parallel universes exist except we can't see them or perceive any evidence of them? Yeah.. Afterlife is really a stretch.

 

[DrewChan]

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On a serious note DrJohnZoidberg - I have also had OBE's - (Although I am 95% atheist 5% Agnostic)
Although I put it down to this: http://www.google.co.za/#gs_rn=15&g...653,d.ZWU&fp=d3fd9ceb0e372a4&biw=1229&bih=809

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Is this the same science that says parallel universes exist except we can't see them or perceive any evidence of them? Yeah.. Afterlife is really a stretch.

Where does science say that? Hypothesis <> science say that.

 

[STS]

Is this the same science that says parallel universes exist except we can't see them or perceive any evidence of them? Yeah.. Afterlife is really a stretch.

i hate those documentaries :erm: even more so those ones where they bring dinosaurs back to life and pretend to be experts on them :erm:

that reminds me of the joke about heaven. when an atheist died he went to heaven and an angel was waiting for him at the gate. they asked him what his beliefs were, and he said he was an atheist. they said, okay, you must go to door number 7, but keep quiet and tiptoe past the doors with the chrisians, catholics and muslims. he asked why, and the angel said it's because they think they're the only ones up here

 

[OrbitalDawn]

i hate those documentaries :erm: even more so those ones where they bring dinosaurs back to life and pretend to be experts on them :erm:

that reminds me of the joke about heaven. when an atheist died he went to heaven and an angel was waiting for him at the gate. they asked him what his beliefs were, and he said he was an atheist. they said, okay, you must go to door number 7, but keep quiet and tiptoe past the doors with the chrisians, catholics and muslims. he asked why, and the angel said it's because they think they're the only ones up here

How very ecumenical of you.

 

[STS]

How very ecumenical of you.

You take that back!

*googles translation*

 

[Keeper]

I gotta ask those who say souls are real

1. when exactly do you get this "soul"?

2. Do monkeys/dogs/etc have souls?

3. And lastly, If you consist of both a body and a soul, which makes the good/bad choices? your brain, or your soul?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I gotta ask those who say souls are real

1. when exactly do you get this "soul"?

2. Do monkeys/dogs/etc have souls?

3. And lastly, If you consist of both a body and a soul, which makes the good/bad choices? your brain, or your soul?

This is the issue. These questions are unanswerable and anybody claiming to be able to answer them is lying or just deceiving themselves. If there are no answers for these most fundamental questions why bother entertaining the idea at all?

 

[cpu.]

Floating and looking down at yourself sleeping is nothing new. I call it dreaming. It's the same as hearing someone call and then fighting against waking up. I don't get that dream anymore because an alarm now wake me.

In the dream thread you can read about taking control of your dreams. This is in the same league.

 

[Keeper]

Floating and looking down at yourself sleeping is nothing new. I call it dreaming. It's the same as hearing someone call and then fighting against waking up. I don't get that dream anymore because an alarm now wake me.

In the dream thread you can read about taking control of your dreams. This is in the same league.

Yep. Your brain creates DMT when you sleep.
People who take the DMT drug have this "out of body" floating experience a lot.

Just because your brain thinks something is real, doesn't mean it is. Otherwise we might as well say unicorns are real because people see them in their dreams.