do you think our souls still live after we die?

Question

answer please without any religious influence. thanks.

i like all of your answers, very interesting explainations

Answer 1

Does energy Die? NO. so then neither would a soul. Disperse into the universe where it came from yes but not die. Energy and Anti Matter just are.

So thats my opinion. Energy does not die it just disperses and our souls are one large electric battery station.

Answer 2

I think of the soul as a kind of software, like an operating program for your body. It is written or built as you grow up and live your life, and it includes your mind and a precise description of who you are, what you are about, and how you have lived your life, like a recording, only more detailed. Everything that makes you YOU. As such it would necessarily have a great connection to your environment, your ancestors, your involvement with the world and how you affected it, as well as how you were affected by it.
Therefore, it is not a living thing in itself, but more the spirit of you in the same way a great building that's well beloved may have a spirit, such as the spirit of cameraderie in a particular clubhouse, the spirit of depression and despair in a mental hospital, the spirit of great intellectual effort in an old university library. It is not less than you, and it could be used to recreate you, but it is not alive. At any moment, your soul is something like a snapshot, or a still frame from a movie of your life. It certainly is not some kind of ectoplasmic white goop that floats around as a ghost after you die, frightening people and rattling chains, it isn't some parasitic energy being that inhabits your body, and it won't float up through the clouds to some golden gates to meet St. Peter, or get thrown underground to a pit full of lava to be tortured by red skinned devils with pitchforks..
That doesn't mean God doesn't keep your soul as a backup, but you said no religious mentions, so that's all I will say.

Answer 3

I think the philosophical arguments that we have a soul are sound and pursuasive. But whether the soul survives the death of the body is another question. I don't know how one could prove that from philosophy alone. If you read Plato's book, Phaedo, he gives some arguments to show that the soul is eternal, but don't find his arguments pursuasive.

The only way I can think of involves stories I've heard that it's impossible to verify. For example, I heard this story of a woman who died on the operating table and was revived. When she woke up, she said she saw a shoe on the roof, and she described it in detail. A nurse went up there and found the shoe. If the story is true, it shows that the woman must've left her body at some point in an immaterial state. But I don't know how I could verify the story is true. Gary Habermas has a book called "Beyond Death" where he tells a lot of stories like this. But I'm generally skeptical of stories I hear like this. Often, details are added or omitted to make them sound more spectacular than they really were.

Answer 4

I really don't know. Maybe our souls need living bodies to be an individual "soul". I've thought that they just go to be part of one big Soul when the body dies. But I have no way of knowing that; it's just a hunch.

I don't define soul as consciousness. If that were the case we would lose our souls when we sleep. Someone in a coma would be soulless. It's something more than consciousness.

Answer 5

Yes I do believe that our souls live on after we die but I believe that the truth of it is more complex than some would like us to believe

Answer 6

Like about 15% of all Americans, I've have had out-of-body experiences - so I know we have some existance outside our physical bodies.

I would describe it more as an extreme heightened state of awareness or consciousness, in which you are separately and distinctly you, but also totally and completely one with your surroundings.

It may not be a soul per se - as defined by religious people - but it is definitely an existance.

Answer 7

You say without any religious influence eh... There are many accounts of ghosts in the world. Discovery even has a program called "A Haunting" that deals with eyewitness accounts of the paranormal and ghosts. There are many eyewitnesses that really believe they were real. I think that this could be considered as evidence that there is something that remains even after we die.

Answer 8

Yes I do. And it's a little difficult to answer this without spiritually influence. Our souls is part of that spirit.

Answer 9

For me, this would be impossible to answer without any religious influence. So, I'll just say, "Yes."

Answer 10

I believe our souls live after we die. Are bodies are just containments for the persons soul. When you're talking about what happens to the soul after you die, I don't know. Yet.