2007-05-05 21:56:07 · 11 answers · asked by Acid 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i am not atheist ,but i would like to answer
soul(living being) is part and parcel of god.
which constitutes ( truth,knowledge and bliss)
text from vedic literature (Bhagavad Gita)
The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.
Gita 15.7
http://vedabase.net/bg/15/7/en
2007-05-05 22:08:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dhruva 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Good question.
If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.
How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage. Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.
So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.
2007-05-05 22:11:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Acid, why bother yourself asking the Atheists regarding soul. They could not understand soul. They do not understand who is God, the more they don't know the soul. As to spirituality or religion, remember that the atheist are ignorant ab out it. You try to talk on the apes and monkeys and the animals, they know it because that is their expertized and maybe , the Apes are their God.
jtm
2007-05-05 22:05:18 · answer #3 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why the heck are you asking atheists this question? It was theists who invented the soul.
2007-05-06 14:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by RickySTT, EAC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh? Christians believe that no human can live if they have no soul and yet they say that animals have no souls? Answer that one.
2007-05-08 22:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by gottaluvme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Music man music and soul for soul people who like soul music man.
2007-05-05 22:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by Drop short and duck 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
when people try and tell me that nothing come from nothing ..we all that have common intelligent knows well that all elements that are has a devine creator ...nobody will ever convince me that nothing can become something with a start and a creator...but can take this to the bank there is a all wise holy God that made all things to his liking ...
2007-05-05 23:30:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably just a shorthand for our understanding of consciousness.
2007-05-05 22:31:30 · answer #8 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No such thing, sorry.
There's consciousness... that's pretty much as close to a soul as it gets.
2007-05-05 22:00:59 · answer #9 · answered by eldad9 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
A figment of a theist's imagination.
2007-05-05 22:05:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋