Does the Soul Exist?
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Yes of course the Soul exists. Do you have a conscious mind? Yes. What is the physical representation of your conscious mind? Your body is what the mind does. Your soul is what is behind the curtain. One cannot physically SEE our conscious thoughts, and this is what the soul is; a metaphysical representation of the mind and body. Side: Yes
You can see thoughts though. http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/08/25/ http://www.popsci.com/science/article/ Do you just make things up because you have no idea, or do you have some magical source of your information? Either way, it's wrong. The brain functions like an ultra powerful computer, and can be scanned and given medication as such. There is no soul, or drugs would have no effect. Instead, you can alter consciousness with chemicals, while similar natural chemicals can give you different feelings, which lead to different thought patterns. You can also scan it with MRI technology, and use other techniques to see electrical activity in different parts. Are you insane or just stupid? Stop making stuff up. Side: No
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There is stories with people returned from the dead. For instance there was that guy who stayed under cold water for 3, three and a half hours. He has no brain, no heart activity, plain dead bro. And he said he saw all sort of cool stuff. I believe soul do exist. It's what makes us different from each other, and special. Also there are facts about people who went through different surgeries and transplantations and after that they developed new skills. How creepy is that huh? A guy who never touched a guitar and suddenly starts to play and sing like Elvis WTF. Side: Yes
Here is the reason for that. The person under water was not completely dead, but his body processes had been in a kind of suspension because of the cold. Not everyone gets lucky like that, but there have been cases where a person in that situation has survived. Bear in mind, there HAD to be SOME life left in the body, or else that person would not have been revived. The fact that they were revived and remember "seeing" things only shows that their mind was still active during their state of suspension in the coldm and that they were NOT completely dead. The guy who never played guitar has an operation and can now sing like Elvis only shows how imperfect our brain processes are. The operation he had altered something in his brain that was not touched in his natural formation in the womb. This is a good example of Revelation 21:3,4, when the evil earth is done away with, and mankind is brought back to the physical perfection he enjoyed for so short a time. We do not now live with the brains our Creator wanted us to have. We live now with extremely imperfect and limited inteligence. That will not always be the case. Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 33:24; Job 33:25 Side: No
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The jump between "your body is what the mind does" and "your soul is what is behind the curtain" makes no sense at all. It requires a massive assumption based on no evidence. We actually can see conscious thoughts with machines that can scan our brains. In fact, a recent experiment revealed that a brain scanner could read passwords from your brain. Click here to see how they did it. There is no known evidence supporting the existence of the soul. Side: No
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Clarification -The difference between a dead body and a living person is consciousness. As long as there is consciousness in the body, we say that the person is living. The moment consciousness leaves the body, we say that it is dead and the person is no more with us. Consciousness is spread all over the body and is that by which we become aware of objects and the environment around us. Consciousness gives us a sense of identity or existence. We retain our consciousness although we change many bodies in our lifetime from childhood to youth to old age. Thus consciousness is the symptom by which we can understand the soul’s existence. Side: Yes
If you're a Christian and believe what the Bible says about the soul, then you know that when the first man was created, his whole person was called his "soul." "...and man CAME TO BE a living SOUL..." Genesis 1 KJV Without the physical mind, there is no way for the mental processes to continue. No one thinks if they are dead, because the soul has died (Ezekiel 18:4--"the soul that sinneth, it shall die...")--souls are subject to DEATH. Astral projection is the misleading idea. If a person recalls something from an inconscious state, then that means they were revived. That means that they were not so close to death that they couldn't BE revived. Their body was undergoing severe trauma, perhaps from lack of oxygen while they stopped breathing, and what they are remembering is an hallucination caused by that trauma. This is why so many NDEs are relatively the same--all human bodies are basically the same. If you are a Christian and base what you believe about life and death on the Bible itself (any translation), then you must know that the human soul is subject to death (Ezekiel 18:4). I would suggest a word search on Bible Gateway to clarify this point further. Do the word search on the word "soul", and you will see how that word is used throughout the Bible--not as something that survives death, but just the opposite--as something that does not. Side: No
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Saying the soul doesnt exist is an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence, ive already given my evidence for the soul, its called astral projection, because everyone reports pretty much the same experiences about what they see, it cant be a trick of the mind or a hallucination, the only reason why reports differ slightly is because everyone is unique, but the overall descriptions of the astral realm all have the same theme And seeing as how the astral realm is described as having living entities, cities, and tons more, all in extravagant detail down to the most minute thing, i strongly believe that its not fake and that we do have a soul, but if you believe you dont have a soul, well you will still have it but you are damaging it by thinking such Side: Yes
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Your soul is what kickstarts you into action in the first place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ This link will clear all your doubts. Hindusim, the oldest and greatest religion on earth, really explains things pretty well. Side: Yes
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This is difficult for me to reply to, because the actual concept of a soul is a difficult idea to wrap your mind around. I do have the theory in my mind that people have a energy that moves on to something else when you die. But it's not YOU. It's just giving you life. I think a lot of people like to think of a soul as something that is them that goes on forever, but that's not something I believe. I believe that once you're dead, YOU are gone. Side: No
YES! You are absolutely right, according to the Bible. The SOUL IS all of YOU--everything in your physical and mental makeup that makes you the person you are is the soul. The electric spark that keeps you alive is "spirit", not soul. "Spirit" is not YOU, but was LOANED to you at conception. The Bible states that this life force "goes back to God who gave it" when a person dies. (Psalm 146:4) The SOUL, however, once it is dead, awaits further action from outside itself in order to live again (See Job 14:13, 14)--a resurrection, which Jesus when on earth, showed many examples of. Side: No
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NO! You are absolutely wrong, according to the Bible. The SOUL IS all of YOU--everything in your physical and mental makeup that makes you the person you are is the soul. The electric spark that keeps you alive is "spirit", not soul. "Spirit" is not YOU, but was LOANED to you at conception. The Bible states that this life force "goes back to God who gave it" when a person dies. (Psalm 146:4) The SOUL, however, once it is dead, awaits further action from outside itself in order to live again (See Job 14:13, 14)--a resurrection, which Jesus when on earth, showed many examples of. Side: Yes
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I both agree with and disagree with what you say. But I won't say what. The minimum length for an argument is 50 characters. The purpose of this restriction is to cut down on the amount of dumb jokes, so we can keep the quality of debate and discourse as high as possible. Side: Yes
What is a soul? A bit of immortality? Does it get reincarnated? Does it feel pain? Does it feel pleasure? You can't know the attributes of this sort of thing, so to claim it exists would be simply wrong. There is no proof. Your influence in life may persist for all time, in some sort of long lasting butterfly effect, but no, there is no soul that exists inside the body as a magical immortality thingy. Side: No
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There, let me answer your questions. A soul is simply the spiritual and immaterial part of your body. It is immortal. The soul simply goes from one body to another. It enters a body, lives in it and when the soul leaves, the body dies. Like clothes, the soul changes into different bodies. It continues doing so until it has learned all there was to learn spiritually, after which it is united with the supreme being. It does not feel pain, pleasure or any other emotion. ONLY the body feels these emotions. Side: Yes
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