Do you atheists believe in human soul? Is there a similar concept in atheism like soul? In your opinion what is the difference between a dead man and an alive person?
2006-10-17 04:43:38 · 28 answers · asked by ATK 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm an atheist, and I don't believe in a soul. Unless it's just another word for a collection of your thoughts and feelings, which really is just a product of the brain.
When you're dead, that's it. There's no more brain and no more you.
2006-10-17 04:51:54 · answer #1 · answered by johnlb 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
In atheism the soul is a figment of the physical minds imagination.
An atheistic viewpoint of the difference between a dead man and an alive person is matter of determinable life. In other words, a dead man will not move and then will rot, while a live person will move and rot slowly enough not to notice. :)
2006-10-17 05:01:37 · answer #2 · answered by Lucas Brown 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The short answer: No atheists don't believe in the soul (at least I don't)
I personally believe what Christians and other religious groups call the souls is simply our mind. It isn't something that goes elsewhere when we die, it simply ends with us. or if you will pieces of our mind (at least opinions, anything that we have taught others, and memories that others have of us) can carry on. This is no way a transfer of our soul, merely our mark in the world.
Our energy goes on (not much though with all the embalming) through the natural process of energy changing form. You know, we rot, stuff eats us, stuff eats that stuff and on.
2006-10-17 05:03:21 · answer #3 · answered by fish lips 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Proposition: The soul is brown.
This proposition is meaningless, since the primary attribute of the term “soul” is unidentified. At best, spiritualists have postulated that a soul is “immaterial”—but, and as will be explained later, this description simply tells us what a “soul” is not, not what a “soul” is, and thus there is no connection established between a “soul” ’s metaphysical nature and any secondary properties that one should wish to attach to it. If a term’s primary attribute is unidentified, we cannot say what attributes can be applied to it or not applied to it, because we are unable to say what it is that it may possess any particular characteristics at all. Consequently, this statement is meaningless.
2006-10-17 04:53:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism isn't an ideology so it's rubbish to talk about concepts-disbelief has no concepts. Personally I believe in the existence of a soul but most atheists don't.
2006-10-17 04:52:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Atheists" is a labell you use to express differences, In matters of the supreme power we are all one, same blood, bones, and breath. If some one does not believe in your ideology does it mean we dont believe in a supreme power?
Islam teaches brotherhood, you could have won hearts by just adressing dear brothers and sisters. Please explain if atheism....... Well probably you needed Yahoo to help you think better. Welcome to my way of seeing things dear friend. You dont have to agree with me but views surely help us to see this confusion of God better.
You have asked a very big question for which i can write volumes, I believe we are all part of the this hudge Universe and the energy we have is the energy of existance or as you call Allah. For you Allah is seperate, I believe I am part of Allah. Hence what ever act comes out of me is an act of God. And God is happy, god is growth, god is love, god is affection and god is everything that is good. He does not punish us for the wrong things we do but we do wrong because we are not mature. Even if we follow any religious books we are still human we all long for experience to learn something from life. If you want to be religious live life with awareness, all you questions will be answered with real life examples.
We are made of body, mind and spirit. the spirit enters our body because it is the only form to exist, mind is what we give meaning to what we see, hear, touch, smell and understand. It is very worldly, everything the mind has is learnt, from childhood, it si nothing but a computer with a big memory. So we learn skills to live in this world. Knowledge is needed to survive, like education to get a job and take care of our bills.
There is a difference between Intellect and Intelligence. Intellect takes things apart to see how they work; intelligence puts things together to see the functioning of the whole.It is only through intelligence that we can respond creatively to the challenges of a changing world. This is where the spirit comes, the spirit or soul that you call responds only in its best way.
When we do wrong the soul silently speaks with us it is always gentle, it is true, all the soft qualities are the qualities of the soul. The wrong is always loud, viloent, destructive, broken, damaged and what not. So when we die the soul realizes that it has no body, then it realizes it has no mind and then it becomes pure soul and becomes part of Existance or as you call God.
You have addressed the responders as Atheists. A person who follows a religion is walking on a track and just follows what is prescribed. He does not believe himself but lives his life on do's and donts, but an Atheists constantly chooses his path with awareness and takes the lessons to his inner core.
We are all right, its your choice and this is mine! We both are good people, and we choose how to live our lives. I see you as a soul seeking some answers, if this does not come up to your answer from the religious book you may call me a bad person, or non believer!
We all see answers from life and its ok to be different but we are all the same people deep down, happy as the universe!
This answer is original from various books i read and how my intelligence could interpret this keeping my own life experiences.
2006-10-17 05:55:11 · answer #6 · answered by thachu5 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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a plant 'breathes' but we don't talk to it
sometimes a corpse is 'dead' but it's metabolic rate is so low it's undetectable and can come back 'alive' or speed back up to our level of awareness
some feel that our breathe and need for more air and our response to others is what makes us alive, or like a ball of fire, allways seeking out new energy sources...a consumer
a truly dead person has stopped moving inwardly and outwardly to the point of corruption and cellular breakdown, where as an alive person has this happening but we heal ourself and regenerate daily and pass out the dead waste
religion tries to convoluted this and say we are spirit, soul, body and our body of course supposedly is corrupt and our spirit is holy, and soul is that vehicle that carries our spirit
but it's all a science and religion, an attempt to explain and create something like an idea to others simply to manipulate and control others with, telling them you or your immams are the way to god, and the prophets, and the books they supposedly wrote under inspiration
2006-10-17 04:54:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Soul (feelings, emotions,... all that is non visible) is what we have along with our visible bodily functions, while we're here.... we don't take it with us in what you seem to insist exists: the after life. The alive/dead difference is quite simple: one moves, the other doesn't. Nothing dramatic about that, when it's time to go we just wave goodbye..... see ya!!
2006-10-17 04:56:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No soul. If you do not know the difference between the living and the dead I feel sorry for you.
2006-10-17 04:52:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea what a soul 'really' is. But when I hear that word used I assume people are simply speaking of the self in 'self awareness'. The part that makes me identify with me. The consciousness of my self that never existed before This body was born. The very 'essence' of myself. The 'me' part of me. ummm.. the part of me that remains timeless in a sense.
Damm that's was difficult to get through. :)
2006-10-17 05:00:33 · answer #10 · answered by CJunk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋