i know it can't be proven that god doesn't exist but....?

Question

can (or has) it been proven that souls don't exist?

Answer 1

The concept of the immortal human spirit (soul) was invented by St. Augustine about 390 AD. He combined Plato's Idealism with Aristotle's Solipsism and asserted that God loans each new human being a bit of His own immortal essence for the duration of their life. The triune philosophy of Idealism, Solipsism, and Soul dominated western civilization for 1200 years. In 1590, Galileo's physics experiments proved that the physical realm is absolutely real, thus discrediting Solipsism. In the beginning of the twentieth century, the electroencephalograph (EEG) proved that all perceptions, thoughts, memories, and emotions originate within the neurological structures of a living human brain. This knowledge totally discredited Plato's Idealism. Without Idealism and Solipsism, St. Augustine's theological construct, the soul, is utterly impossible. The soul can only exist within a philosophical framework which imagines each individual's subjective experience amounts to reality. Educated men, for the last 400 years or so, have known that objective reality exists in the physical realm and the physics of Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton proves it absolutely. Because subjective experience is virtual, merely an illusion created by a living brain, it is not tangibly real and neither is St. Augustine's contrived soul.

Answer 2

Sure. Christians have a totally whacky idea of what the 'soul' is supposed to be. For the Jews of biblical times... including Jesus (if he actually existed)... the 'soul' was an enveloping emanation from the godhead that resulted from the community's relationship with god. The soul as a component of a human being (Christian view) is an artifact of Greek thinking on 'dualism'... which was incorporated into Christian dogma and lore by Gentile theologians, who were ignorant of the Jewish concept of 'soul'.

So... apart from the fact that all of this stuff is mythological nonsense, anyway... everyone's worries about what happens to their personal 'soul' are of no consequence... it does not exist.

If Jesus had heard you talking about your 'soul', he wouldn't have had a clue what you were babbling about.

Answer 3

You have a soul and a physical body. Some people refer to soul as spirit.

Here is the definiton:

The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity.
The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
The disembodied spirit of a dead human.
A human: "the homes of some nine hundred souls" (Garrison Keillor).
The central or integral part; the vital core: "It saddens me that this network ... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news" (Marvin Kalb).
A person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion.
A person's emotional or moral nature: "An actor is ... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself

Answer 4

The Lancet (respected medical journal) published a study asserting proof of the soul's existence based on NDE's (near death expereince), and there have been other studies done concerning weight loss at the exact moment of death (usually about 2 oz of unexplainable weight)....
but nothing definitive.

Answer 5

No, they just deny it (those who don't believe in it).
The presence of soul can be perceived when there is consciousness on the body. This is the proof. When you pinch my body, I feel pain, when I pinch your body, you feel pain, when I pinch an animal's body, he also feels pain. Even I pinch even the tree's body he feels pain. It is scientifically proved. Sir Jagadish Candra Bose has proved by machine that when you cut a tree, it feels pain and it is recorded in this statistic machine. So everyone has got the soul.
When you take the animal to the slaughterhouse for killing, he cries. Why? Because he's feeling pain. He knows that "I'm going to be killed." So there is soul. Soul is there. You don't think that soul is not there: soul is there. Therefore, a Krishna conscious person who has realized God, he is samah sarvesu bhütesu, he's equal to all living entities. He'll feel pain even for cutting a tree. He'll feel pain, he'll feel pain even he traverses over an ant.

Answer 6

Actually, the burden of proof lies on the one asserting that souls DO exist -- without being composed of matter, or energy, or anything else that we understand that everything in the Universe is composed of.

Answer 7

It is not able to be proven now that God exists but many things point to him being the creator of the universe and perhaps soon science will find definte proof.

Answer 8

Not really; you run into the same problem, where part of the definition of the soul is 'intangible'.

How do you prove something does or doesn't exist if you can't measure or detect it in any way?

Answer 9

You are trying to prove objectively what is clearly subjective only. Your suffering comes from the fact that you are wishing to be confident in your knowledge, which rests on casual relationships, and can never rest on "that which is," the true source of liberation, freedom, and knowledge. By liberating yourself from these wrong views, and focusing on the eternal soul, you can gain direct gnosis of it rather than seeking it in intellectual discoveries.

I will carefully discuss the fundamentals of your issue. If by "soul" we mean "source, light, true -self, subtle self, or true nature," then there is for sure a soul, for what nature are you, if not your true nature? Your true nature can never be different than what it is, however, you can think that your true nature is different from what it is. Whenever you think of your soul as imperfect, suffering, relative, limited, and mortal, you are thinking differently than what is, and your suffering will be increased through this false belief.

But if you think that the soul is perfect, absolute, immortal, blissful, then you will liberate yourself from suffering.

To ensure your confidence in my teachings, and to prove to your mind intellectually that perfect, absolute, immortal, and blissful exists, I will discuss as follows:

Whenever there is something that is imperfect, our mind inherently knows a thing opposite, to which our vision can clearly comprehend, of what perfection is. Therefore, perfection exists.

In the same manner, whenever we look upon relative, mortal, or things that suffer, our mind holds through an "inflexured," thought, a thought held upon itself, of that which is perfect, immortal, and free of suffering. This is the very mind itself. This is the source of all suffering, as well as the existence of all that is good and pure.

Therefore, choose wisely, and discriminate between what is your soul from what is not your soul, by understanding and coming to know the soul as perfect, pure, and immortal.

Answer 10

Ah bouken X , this is the Caveman here. Now was that nice to call me an idiot? The Bible speaks against that now doesn't it. Since you chose to disobey God's word, whose the real idiot? Peace and God bless.