I define the soul as the seat of free will. It may be many things, and the fact that it is the seat of free will may only be a secondary characteristic, but all of those aspects of us that give us free will comprise the soul.
I consider the existence of the soul to be self-evident -- not because of my faith, particularly, but because without it we cannot trust anything we ever say. In other words, since the soul is the seat of free will, someone who thinks that they have proved that there is no free will has just effectively denied the very method of proof that they have used. Why? Because they are choosing between competing theories, and if they cannot choose, then choosing between competing theories is meaningless. The person who believes that there is no such thing as free will essentially puts, say, the Pope's or Muhammad Atta's thought processes on the exact same footing as his own.
2007-07-20 22:31:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
WOW! all of your answers were SO
GREAT its SO hard to pick I CANT
VOTE!!
2007-07-21 11:10:07 · update #1
a soul is just a word...it's you conscience you should be worried about
2007-07-20 22:41:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The soul is a single strand of time that began at the beginning and ends at the point of creation that is what we now experience.
When the I AM saw that it was composed of many individual strands of time. It separated one out to look at it. It saw that it shared the I AM and acted as the I AM acted. The I AM then put a veil around it so that it could not readily see that it was part of the Divine I AM. This single strand now acted on it’s own as it thought that it was alone. This is the beginning of the creation. All living things are created from one of these single strands of time. These strands of time reach from the beginning at the Big Bang, The single strand of time that can reach the Red shift that is the very beginning. The other end is connected to the point of creation that continues to create without end. The only thing that will stop this creation is the I AM. The time when the I AM will stop this creation is when it is time to define the finite space within the existing universe. This is the day of judgement.
It could result in another Big Bang as it has in the past seven times. These are the days of the divine for the creation. Yes we are now in the 7th day. The day the divine rested. We are simply awaiting the awakening that has already begun.
The Divine has hope that we will live by the companion theory that it may balance the force and not need to recycle all through another Big Bang.
2007-07-21 05:21:44 · answer #2 · answered by everymansmedium 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the soul was, is, and remains defined. It's the physical vehicle and the 'mind' that runs it requires defining each lifetime.
I don't have any investment in how anyone else believes the mechanical side of it all is constructed.
But the same way so many people on Yahoo QA state flatly how things are [and frequently don't know what they're talking about] I'll tell you flatly:
I'm a spiritual being with a toe-hold [the meat and brain puppet] in physical reality.
If that be treason make the best of it.
2007-07-21 02:21:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jack P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My definition of the soul is the opposite of yours.
As humans we don't have much free will. We are confined to our personalities and character. For instance, it isn't possible for person who isn't numerate to be a mathematician. We are circumscribed by what we cannot do.
The soul is the spirit occupying our character, and though it too, is imprisoned in the human it occupies, it is free to be itself as it passes from one incarnation to another.
Odd you should mention Muhammed Atta - whose photograph was seen everywhere some time ago. A stiff hostile face clamping down the dazzling soul we saw filmed before his death; bright-eyed, smiling and flirting - full of life and his own personal magnetism. In the way I see 'soul', Atta will always have magnetism, whatever individual he eventually occupies.
2007-07-21 03:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The soul is a spiritual reality that animates the body. According to Aristotle, all living things have a soul, which operates in these living things as the sensitive and vegetative principles of life. The human soul contains these principles (sensitive and vegetative) as well the capacity for reason.
2007-07-21 01:45:42 · answer #5 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The human soul is both the most complex and the most lofty of souls. The sages have said: "She is called by five names: Nefesh (soul), Ruach (spirit), Neshamah (breath), Chayah (life) and Yechidah (singularity)". The soul's five "names" actually describe five levels or dimensions of the soul. Nefesh is the soul as the engine of physical life. Ruach is the emotional self and "personality." Neshamah is the intellectual self. Chayah is the supra-rational self, the seat of will, desire, commitment and faith. Yechidah connotes the essence of the soul, its unity with its source, the singular essence of God. For the essence of the soul of man is "literally a part of God above", a piece of God in us, so to speak.
GOOD LUCK!
2007-07-21 02:40:24 · answer #6 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Scripture "soul" can mean human life or the entire human person. "Soul" especially means man's spiritual principle.
The spiritual soul is the "form" of the body. Man is not the union of two natures. In man, spirit and matter form one nature. God creates every spiritual soul immediately. It is not "produced" by the parents and does not perish at death. It is reunited with the body at the final resurrection.
Peace and every blessing!
2007-07-21 00:46:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of itself.
2007-07-20 22:48:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me. Whom else?
2007-07-21 02:30:51 · answer #9 · answered by driving_blindly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋