Wouldn't you be like Spock?
never laughing
Never enjoying or really getting into anything because
It's not logical.
Never falling in love
never moved with compassion to save a drowning man risking your own life, never risking your life to save another (not logical, not something an evolutionary "being" would do)
I mean have you actually thought about what you are saying
when you say people have no soul?
Seriously?
It's not even logical in light of what humans are capable of!
(in the good or evil realm)
I realize some want to be neutral fearing zeal to be good or evil. but you can't stay neutral forever.
2007-10-02 14:21:18 · 18 answers · asked by sisterzeal 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not emotions armandsteel
Emotions do not lead people to be great leaders.......to devote their lives to feeding the hungry........to give their lives in death for a cause with no reward to themselves. That takes soul.
2007-10-02 14:36:32 · update #1
If you function by your brain only you would never do great things you would just survive and do what is logical for your own self preservation.
2007-10-02 14:37:24 · update #2
Atheist use their freewill to rebel and reject Jesus and so great a salvation.
they can change (many have):
Eph 2:8-9
Job 19
Matt 24-25
Jude
Romans (1,3,6,10)
2007-10-02 17:14:56 · answer #1 · answered by robert p 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
So your definition of soul is emotions.
And who said a "soul" was required for people to do those things. You're question is nothing more than a variation that old "if you don't believe in god then what's the point of living" question. If YOU need to believe in the concept of a soul to do good things then great for you, but I don't.
2007-10-02 21:26:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emotions are a reaction in the brain, not a soul.
Empathy and altruism evolved in all social animals -- why? Because self-sacrifice is evolutionarily advantageous.
I'm in a wolf pack. A bear is attacking the alpha pair's puppies. I am closely related to those puppies -- they carry many genes in common with me. If my life ends defending those puppies, then the genes I share in common with them will continue, even though my particular mix will end. This results in multiple carriers, as opposed to what happens if I walk away and let them all die. Then there's only one carrier, me. And seeing as I'm not one of the alpha pair, I have very little chance of procreating, so I'm evolutionarily as good as dead anyways.
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You are wrong. I have just pointed out why emotions would lead to self-sacrifice, and within a purely evolutionary physical context.
Self-sacrifice is not contrary to naturalism. Indeed, if I am willing to self-sacrifice, others will be more likely to sacrifice for me in exchange. So self-sacrifice can be beneficial to me.
A soul is not required for self-sacrifice.
2007-10-02 21:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
What does doing any of those things you list above have to do with having or not having a soul?!? There have been many people who didn't believe in a soul that did all of the things you list (laughing, loving, being compassionate, etc...) And many people who DO believe in a soul and a afterlife treat people like ****!
2007-10-02 21:27:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
What makes you thank you have a soul, you don't know what a soul is, WHO told you, that you had a soul, and did he make up something, that it does for you.
All animals are souls, man is different from animals, because God gave man a human spirit, give us a mind, for doing ,all the things other animals can't.
Job 12:10 > In whose hand is the soul of every living thing. and the breath of all mankind.
2007-10-02 21:43:19 · answer #5 · answered by Herb E 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The soul and logic are two separate subjects.
It is believed in many cultures and religions that the soul is the unification of one's sense of identity. One person's sense of identity could be a very logical sense of identity.
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2007-10-02 21:59:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mind, intellect, character and will and emotions make up the soul. You either program it from within, where the spirit reflects God's Spirit, or you program it from the ourside in. It was never intended to be programed by the flesh. Everyone has a soul that is constantly being programed either by God or all else.
2007-10-02 21:27:28 · answer #7 · answered by happylife22842 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What makes you think a soul is responsible for all of that anyway?
I believe in humans having souls but not because of any of the things you have listed.
2007-10-02 21:29:39 · answer #8 · answered by nameless 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't see what having a soul has to do with emotions. Emotions are connected to the brain.
2007-10-02 21:26:40 · answer #9 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, because Spock just was not emotional. He was strictly logical.
Now for the soul, that is what we are. That is the part that doesn't died. It's the part that continues to come back until it finishes experiencing life.
That's my beliefs. Everyone elses may vary. ;-)
2007-10-02 21:42:12 · answer #10 · answered by Janet L 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no such part of our body physcially or mentally called a Soul. Soul is just the emotional part and functioning of the brain. All that you mentioned has nothing to do with the soul. It is conditioned response.
2007-10-02 21:30:16 · answer #11 · answered by worldneverchanges 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋