Do you have a soul?
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
March 29, 2024, 01:35:59 AM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Discussion
  Religion & Philosophy (Moderator: World politics is up Schmitt creek)
  Do you have a soul?
« previous next »
Pages: 1 2 3 4 [5]
Poll
Question: Do you believe that you have a soul?
#1
Yes
 
#2
No
 
#3
Don't know
 
Show Pie Chart
Partisan results

Total Voters: 72

Author Topic: Do you have a soul?  (Read 17926 times)
World politics is up Schmitt creek
Nathan
Moderator
Atlas Superstar
*****
Posts: 34,251


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #100 on: September 23, 2012, 08:08:09 PM »
« edited: September 23, 2012, 08:09:59 PM by Nathan »

Anyone who thinks the soul is a thing needs a dose of Wittgenstein.

We discussed Wittgenstein in my Philosophy Club just the other day. I was, shall we say, not as impressed as one is expected to be with him.
Logged
Insula Dei
belgiansocialist
YaBB God
*****
Posts: 4,326
Belgium


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #101 on: September 28, 2012, 07:19:04 AM »

Anyone who thinks the soul is a thing needs a dose of Wittgenstein.

Which Wittgenstein?
Logged
True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
Moderators
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 42,157
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #102 on: September 28, 2012, 07:00:53 PM »

I use to have a soul, but then I started being a part of the 2012 Boards.
Logged
BlueSwan
blueswan
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 6,290
Denmark


Political Matrix
E: -4.26, S: -7.30

WWW Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #103 on: October 07, 2012, 06:33:13 AM »

No. My body is composed of atoms and my brain of electrical currents in matter. The part of me that is ‘separate’ from my body; my thoughts and feelings and my words are not so separate at all. Without the matter, there would be no mind. When I die, thinking stops, being stops and the matter is broken down and recycled. Nothing of me lives on or continues to exist. How egotistical of me to think that amongst all living things, a human’s ‘soul’ gets to exist beyond death. It’s the construct of a sentient being that feels cheated by death.

If however such a thing were to exist then it is mine. Why should it belong to, or go to another entity? I’d rather it be destroyed than become the play thing of a benevolent (or not so benevolent) entity. Let it escape.
The truth. Should have ended the thread really.
Logged
Yelnoc
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 7,149
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #104 on: October 07, 2012, 04:46:04 PM »

I voted "I don't know".

I found it interesting how few people don't know the answer.
Logged
danny
Jr. Member
***
Posts: 1,768
Israel


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #105 on: October 07, 2012, 11:55:51 PM »

I voted "I don't know".

I found it interesting how few people don't know the answer.

You could always say that you don't know about everything in life but this isn't particularly meaningful.
Logged
Pages: 1 2 3 4 [5]  
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.037 seconds with 14 queries.