Do spiders and elephants have souls? If someone kills a spider, what happens to them, their soul, their karma?

Answer 1

I try not to kill stuff. i believe that we are all connected and doing harm to things is bad for us in general. However, I also believe that, as long as we are humane, animals are hear for food. The problem is that the American food industry is far from humane, so I try to be a vegetarian. But i really like hot wings. but i digress...

I tend to look at the universe as an organism. sometimes stuff gets killed within an organism: some bacteria, for example. It's best for the organism. So theoretically, on that logic I should be for the death penalty, too, but I'm not. At least I KNOW I'm being illogical.

Wow... I have completely ignored the question, yet I'm submitting it anyway. Enjoy my ramblings. :)

Answer 2

Hindus believe all living things have a soul. So yes the spider and the elephant have a soul.

They also believe that the soul has no shape or form, the soul is eternal and cannot be destroyed or created. They believe all souls are identical and that the body they occupy is like a coat. When the body dies, the soul shed the body like a coat and enters a new body, new life to start the cycle again.

Karma is the good and bad deeds of the soul. If the soul has +ve karma when the body dies, the soul can ascend to a better body a better life. If the soul has -ve karma when the body dies, the soul has to either take re-birth in the same body or lower life form.

Answer 3

The reason elephants are very caring and such is because they are social beasts. Mammals can be quite advanced as to create a society.

Spiders on the other hand are quite anti-social. They live alone, they are carnivorous and they even eat their own kind. This is probably due to their automaton-like nature that is displayed by most insects and arachnids rather than the lack of a soul though.

That said, it also depends on what you believe the soul is. If you mean the lifeforce that animates your body then all living creatures could be said to have one. If you mean the immortal soul that will live on after your body's death then I'm afraid that's likely to never be proven.

Answer 4

Every living creature has a soul. Spiders, however, are not as emotional as elephants. Elephants mourn their dead and care for each others young. They are very tender-hearted animals. Killing an elephant would bring you terrible karma, whereas a spider isn't that big a deal, if you ask me.

Answer 5

Some say no some say yes.
I don't think spiders do but I think elephants have a really big soul.

OMG, I'm the first answerer, I've never been first, how exciting.

BYW, I can step on a spider, nasty vile things, but I can't step on an elephant and I wouldn't want to.

Answer 6

According to some gurus, elephants have souls and they are part of the cycle.

However, spiders and insects like bees and butterflys were termed as sentient beings which coexist with us but do not possess souls or form part of the karmic cycle.

Answer 7

All creatures have souls, and life energy. Creatures that are alive have a certain amount of 'lifeforce'. When plants, animals, die, the force goes back into a large pool of available 'mojo'. This pool is what allows new life to be created. It's part of the circle of life.

I have allways thought that there is more to life then what scientists are trying to pigeonhole. There could be more to life then conciousness based on biochemistry.

Answer 8

The cociousness we have the feeling which we have that we 'I' am something is also possesed by many animals .
The only difference between us and animals is the tremendous increase in our intellect without a significant or proportionate growth in our brain size over the years.
This makes us different.
Besides Karma is a simple theory though cannot be proven is based on good and bad deeds which you do.

Answer 9

As far as i think all living things has there soul, but only human has been made of clay and made by hand and the other living things are made as God say word "KUN", well but killing any living thing no matter if it's spider, elepant, or human u get to pay for that....if not human but to God

Answer 10

7 Jehovah clearly explained what death would mean for the sinner Adam. God said: “In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) Adam would return where? To the ground, to the dust from which he had been created. At death Adam would simply cease to exist!

8 In this regard, human death does not differ from that of the animals. They too are souls, and the same spirit, or life force, energizes them. (Genesis 1:24) At Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20, the wise man Solomon tells us: “As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that [in death] there is no superiority of the man over the beast . . . They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust.” Man was superior to the beasts in that he was created in God’s image, reflecting the qualities of Jehovah. (Genesis 1:26, 27) Yet, at death humans and animals alike return to the dust.