well... for me .. it's something god gave it to use ... but we can't use it ... it's like security from god to his minkind... but what is it .. no one know .. i only can say that it's the eternal part of body!!!
there's people will say it's what we do feel ... but it's not ... it's not just an emotions .. it's more than that .... for EX god gave us brain to use it ... and think by it ... but soul .... we can't use it .. we can't just take it off when ever we want ... so .. it's something overwill
what do u think ??... what is it ?!!
2006-08-26 22:16:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Have you ever had the experience of looking at your body from outside? If you had, you would only have to answer the question:
"who was doing the looking?", and that would answer the question: "What is a soul?" You have a body but you don't HAVE
a soul. Because you ARE it. The soul is the spiritual being that you are and which is YOU. So, when you use the pronoun "I", that's what you're referring to. But don't expect to see a form of
the soul, it doesn't have one. Because it is purely spiritual and
doesn't have any of the characteristics of the material universe.
But it is far from being an abstract thing. The soul is the driving force in all you do and think. Without the soul, nothing could be
achieved. But thanks to the soul, a lot can and is being achieved.
You could say that the soul is a unit of Life itself.
2006-08-27 03:36:11 · answer #1 · answered by savamichler 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comparing the human body to a computer:
Soul is the software operating system running on top of the mind, the mind in turn is the I/O system of your body -- the tissue-ware -- which includes the brain, the spinal cord, limbic system and then rest of the body are the peripherals.
If there is no soul, there is no operating system.
One would behave as in a coma -- the body would be as good as a computer that would not start-up.
The tissue-ware is analog instead of digital, and everything is much more sophisticated than the PC we built. It is also self maintained -- built from ground up by DNA and self programmed by what is learned / taught through the senses.
What one does with this soul would be the personalities and body built form the personal experience, lawers, mathematicians, actors, writers, athelets, musicians, soilders, artists... etc.
Throw this into society which is analogous to a network of computers and we have the whole picture of humanity.
Could you imagine it the way it is described here?
2006-08-26 23:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by : ) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The soul may be defined as the ultimate internal principle by which we think, feel, and will, and by which our bodies are animated. The term "mind" usually denotes this principle as the subject of our conscious states, while "soul" denotes the source of our vegetative activities as well. That our vital activities proceed from a principle capable of subsisting in itself, is the thesis of the substantiality of the soul: that this principle is not itself composite, extended, corporeal, or essentially and intrinsically dependent on the body, is the doctrine of spirituality. If there be a life after death, clearly the agent or subject of our vital activities must be capable of an existence separate from the body
2006-08-27 00:42:38 · answer #3 · answered by wudaal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Soul is a fiction that we humans made up so that we would feel superior to the other animals.
You tell me how we know this "soul" exisits. All of our knowledge comes from either a direct experience of the thing (like an apple) or by noticing the things effect upon another object (like gravity). We cannot directly percieve a soul, nor are there indirect effects upon the bearers of such a thing that are not already attributed to other processes or things.
Give up the ghost, already.
2006-08-27 00:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by James P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The body is the car we use as a vehicle, the electricity to HELP it run is the reason and intellect. The soul? Well-thats not even the driver (there is no driver-ego is dillusion), why soul is the petrol that makes it all run.
2006-08-27 02:10:53 · answer #5 · answered by zephyrescent 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is a small piece of the cosmic consciousness and when the vessel it inhabits parishes it will return to its source. Matter cannot be destroyed only transformed.
2006-08-27 05:00:16 · answer #6 · answered by ormus 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A commodity to be harvested and sold, like everything else.
Ideally, it is a reflection of God.
(If you are in illusion), soul can seem like the glow off of consumed pork meat or the slaughter of pigs
Soul is the experiencer, perceiver, One Who Seeks God
2006-08-26 22:43:25 · answer #7 · answered by isis 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A feel good figment of human imagination.
2006-08-26 22:33:42 · answer #8 · answered by blinkers 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is something not under the Law of Newtons.
What I trying to say is, it is not possible to explain in scientific manner.
For those who can, then please explain using the physics law: energy loss = energy gain.
When a soul is loss, who gain it?
2006-08-26 22:24:10 · answer #9 · answered by shin 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is no more than our life energy. Electricity in our bodys.
2006-08-26 22:26:52 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋