Why dont you explain this?

Question

If theres a soul than explain Alzheimer's disease. If a person has an eternal soul that is supposably made up of everything they are there personality and whatever than why when someone gets Alzheimer's Disease or any other brain damage, they lose all sense of self? Huh? Thats just proof that the brain is everything you are and without it your nothing, and theres no soul. And to say that when you die all of a sudden your soul appears good as new with everything restored and existing without a brain is just wishfull thinking and has no proof whatsever so the case is that theres no after life. All of the evidence against a soul is right all over the place yet you make up all this bull stories that there is definately a soul when you have no proof, your full of it and i know i'm right

Answer 1

did anyone ever tell you that you're an idiot? of course they did and you just didn't listen. so listen up ..... Y.O.U.R'.E A.N. I.D.I.O.T.

Alzheimers isn't a lack of a functioning brain (hell, you're proof of that) ... it's relative to memory loss, not loss of intelligence but the ability to recall that stored intelligence.

Answer 2

Well, a soul... Do you believe only in what you see? If that is the case, then I have no evidence to convince you otherwise. If you can for a moment believe in what is not seen, then it maybe you have seen it for yourself. I had this conversation just two days ago. You wouldn't be able to find out until we move past our hangups on ethics for science and move to beyond our technology to brain taping and more. I would slowly replace a person to a mechanical body. Fingers first, slowly working my way in. You would have to use many people. There could multiple places. This could be just one way to find out.
What makes a soul? Is it simply who you are? If that is the case, I am not the say person i was in elementary school. I don't have the same likes, dislikes or memories or thought patterns. Or is it my ideal self?
Do people who have transplants have memories of the those the parts they recieved of? There are cases of shadow limb of those that lose limbs.
Since I believe that all things are possible, and you can make your own reality; I believe that this skin I'm in is only temporary. I have seen too many things and read too much science to think that there is much more out there that we can and will learn. Law/chaos, cause and effect, quantative physics and faith are just a few things. I can see the logic of many views, but i don't think there is just one that has it all right. Find what works for you. I am too adaptable and open minded to stick to one idea.

Answer 3

You may have a point for a visual eye.Yes,if you talk of all that is visible then there may not be a soul,but it is not that way.Mind is not independent and depends on organs like heart.If heart stops giving blood to the mind ,it stops.There is some other divine power which controls all these movements and functions of all the organs.Do you really think that all these functions are without any aim or mission.No,these have been created for specific roles and are judged in their performance.If we can establish a legal system to reward people according to their deeds ,then how do you think that God Who is all Mighty would not have a system to reward people according to their deeds.Surely He is not biased and unreasonable by giving excellent life to some and give miseries to others without giving them reward or punishment.We have to have a life hereafter to judge our performance in this world.So get ready for that time and be good to all and be ready for the Judgement day.If there is no such day ,you do not lose anything but if it is there ,then what would happen ?So let us be good to all and be ready to face the music at the Day Judgement.

Answer 4

The self concept that we have is the same as the soul: both posit that we're this body, this personality. The soul is really just a projection of this body/personality, somehow intact with all the same mechanisms but without the physical apparatus that provides those mechanisms. The problem with all of this - whether we project it after death and call it a soul or identify ourselves in life with the psychological and physical body - is the concept of self. What is the self? What is the mind? Is it isolated to the body, to this personality? Is it individualistic, surviving after death as a soul? Clearly, when we damage the brain, the physical entity and personality gets modified. Is this what we really are? Is this all we are? Those who have an enlightenment experience experience themselves as no self -- no individual, no brain, no form -- they experience themselves as the whole universe. And the issues of self, soul, etc. go away -- but this needs to be directly experienced, of course.

Answer 5

My, that's quite the run-on sentence you have going on there. Are you implying that people with Alzheimer's or any other brain damage, have no soul? Or are you saying that when the brain dies the soul should dictate behavior? Are you assuming that people who believe in 'souls' believe that's it's an animate object, or something with mass that you can measure on a scale? Something that crawls out of your mouth after you die? You made a bunch of assumptions and a bunch of allegations - no, I don't 'know you're right'.

Answer 6

People with Alzheimer's forget and get dementia, etc., but they still feel love, care, a tender touch, a soft word. Diseases affect people, but that's not evidence there is not a soul. Your soul is you in your body. The Bible tells us about the soul. There is no evidence that there is no soul. No matter how battered the body and mind become in this life, the soul lives on forever according to the Word of God.

Answer 7

When a person gets Alzheimer's they won't be judged on that level. They will be judged according to what they did with God's Word when they had all their mental faculties.

If God made the whole universe, which He did, He certainly can restore a human body to perfection.
Lazarus was already rotting four days in the grave and was restored to a healthy body, after he had died.

I'd rather have what you call "wishful thinking" than have no hope at all.

Answer 8

I will write this even though you probably will not understand it. Some illnesses or should I say all illness are symbolic of issues going on in a man or women's heart. Sicknesses and diseases are a reflection of what is going on inside of you spiritually. This is why you see some people with chronic illnesses just recover miraculously without medical treatment. Because whatever was at the root of the illness was removed. Alzheimer's disease is not different. There is a root to the cause of it inside a person's spirit or soul. For example, your words are very powerful. It you keep saying I am going to lose my mind over and over eventually it will come to pass. I saw this happen with my stepmother. She kept telling her children, "One day you guys are going to drive me crazy". That day came and I saw her go crazy before my eyes. But she came back to her sense later, because we prayed for her.

Answer 9

You may want to think of it that way but that does not make it real.

The soul always leaves the body when the body can no longer sustain it's self as a living organism. This does not mean that under certain circumstances the body can not continue to survive once the soul has left.

Often when people are kept breathing by artifical means and fed with a tube the body seems to be alive but with the soul missing the person is essentally dead even though the body continues to exibit some signs of life.

Your theory of the brain being everything was something that I believed for nearly 50 years. Then something happened that made me realise that I was wrong. This is how it happened.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 10

Your brain is just a whole bunch of nerve endings reacting with one another. The soul is something bigger than that. It's something that reacts with other people. Alzheimer's Disease distroys the brain, but not the soul.

Answer 11

Does someone you love have Alzheimer's? You seem very angry. Maybe that just me reading more into this than I should.
Anyway, the soul does not control your bodies muscles. It does not make us speak. It does not make us remember or forget. Our brain does all that. But our soul does make us love. Who do you love? Why do you love them? Where does that love reside within you?
If my body was broken, it may hinder my ability to show my love. That would not mean that my love does not exist. It would not mean that I do not have love.
The same is true of our minds. A broken mind can keep us from knowing how to express that love. That does not mean that the love is not there.
A broken soul can keep us from having that love. If your soul is broken, there is one who can fix it. His name is Jesus.

A broken body can prevent us from doing the things we wish to do. A broken mind can keep us from knowing what we wish to do. Your soul may be broken or crushed, but your mind works. Another may have a mind that is hurt, but their soul may be flourishing. Do not assume that love is not present simply because it is not expressed.