every seven years since the day you are born every cell from your brain to your bones are new, none are the same as before, so if physically everything you are made of is differnt from when you are born how are you, you? and does this prove that you have a soul and that is what makes you you?
2007-07-30 10:07:58 · 11 answers · asked by Cloudstrife 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i feel that went we are close to die and through our lives we start out innocent and become innocent again, as seen in alzheimers they become like young children, and i believe but i dont like is that when we become souls in heaven that we are just entities unlike our earthly selves, we just feel pleasure for eternity but do not do things we are just souls in a collective being of souls and that is all we are an do, which you wasnt true but is what most theory points to, heaven isnt like the cartoons where we are so happy and do things like we did on earth , but yet just a state of pleasure.
2007-07-30 10:33:36 · update #1
just as "ydrisil" said we are not personality wise or mentally the same person evry seven years either, so the baby me is not me in any way physically or mentally the only thing that connects him to me is memories, so we are many different people connected by memories? its the same as if you and me had the same memorise because we have no cells in common or mentality its so strange.
2007-07-30 10:55:20 · update #2
You are still you. Your past is who you are today and who you will become. It is a foundation that is laid for the further development of the energy that you are.
What makes you, you is your thoughts and feelings. Every time you think and feel your brain emits an electromagnetic impulse. That energy does not just dissipate into nothingness. It blends with other impulses and continues to surround you, forming the aura that you are. The more you think and feel, the denser your aura becomes, forming the illusion that is your physical body. What you think and feel, you become and you are. This is your soul.
2007-07-30 13:17:18 · answer #1 · answered by Shihan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. Yes, we have an identity because we remember our experiences and these cohere into a past that is mine. The concept of a soul has historically carried the idea that it is eternal and substantial. This is not proven by the fact the we remember our own past. Is an Alzheimer's patient striped of their souls before they die? I do not ask this lightly because a loved one of mine suffered terribly from that illness. If having or being a soul makes our identity, did god take her soul before he took her body? The disease took her mind, that I know.
2007-07-30 10:24:56 · answer #2 · answered by Sowcratees 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not the “You” you were seven years ago. Physically, mentally and emotionally we always change. You have accumulated more life experience in a seven-year span and are bound to have changed in some ways mentally and emotionally. As for evidence of your soul: you cannot find it in this physical world. Your personal conviction or faith must be your guide.
2007-07-30 10:51:03 · answer #3 · answered by ydrisil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ive always thought the soul to be pure energy, its the soul that keeps your body pumping. your shell can change and be warped but youre still the same on the inside, i cant see how this proves a soul, and science wont for many many years, because its like finding something thats not there... WMD, jus sayin, just saying. but that sounds like it
2007-07-30 10:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by ceesteris 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a huge and fiercy conglomerate of selfish genes being created and dying within me at every single moment of my life.
All such selfish genes have their own individual nano-soul, therefore I am a conglomerate of nano-souls getting nano-bodies and losing them all the time, therefore I have an army of souls within me with a sort of collective super- soul presiding the whole conglomerate of selfish genes.
It is thus that I am me in this weird way of mine, and so are you you I dare guess.
2007-07-30 10:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by pasquale garonfolo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I'm still me--who else would I be?
Your body is constantly renewing, as is everything else alive on this planet. Change is the one constant that we can depend on!
A soul isn't what makes you 'you'. Your experiences are what influence who you are.
2007-07-30 10:32:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The body is just the receptacle for me, for who I am. When we say my body, my arm, my leg, my eyes, my lips, it suggest that some being other than the body itself has ownership, doesn't it? The body is just the vehicle, I'm the one doing the driving.
And but for my body, I'm exactly like you, I'm from the same energy source you're from. I am you.
2007-07-30 10:33:13 · answer #7 · answered by livemoreamply 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're apparently looking for the scientific answer... I'll give you the philisophical one. :) I'm energy- no matter what container I'm put in I will retain the same awareness as my energy is my conciousness. When my organic body dies- I will remain in a different existence. Think of a butterfuly and a cocoon. Just my thoughts... I could be wrong. You could be wrong... EVERYBODY could be wrong... who knows for sure!!
2007-07-30 10:13:19 · answer #8 · answered by phrenitus 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, it's not what makes you you it's what makes me me. Philosophy hasn't proven you yet. I think they ran out of P1's and P2's, but no shortage of Ego's.
2007-07-30 10:16:44 · answer #9 · answered by hb12 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have found new truths by seeking my God, thus I am improved in every way. Yet I know I am still a sinner.
2007-07-30 10:17:06 · answer #10 · answered by mary 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋