Does the Atheist have a soul? (269)
Well I am one of them HUM! ::gasp:::
and I have a soul... (and a heart)
My soul belongs to me.
and maybe I see it a little differently to how someone that believes in a god sees theirs.
I like mine.. its actually very nice.
and I have a soul... (and a heart)
My soul belongs to me.
and maybe I see it a little differently to how someone that believes in a god sees theirs.
I like mine.. its actually very nice.
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The absence of a diety within a personal philosophy does not negate a spiritual doctrine, merely a theistic one.
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Galactic_bodhi: The absence of a diety within a personal philosophy does not negate a spiritual doctrine, merely a theistic one.
yep
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Claayer: Well I am one of them HUM! ::gasp:::
and I have a soul... (and a heart)
My soul belongs to me .
and maybe I see it a little differently to how someone that believes in a god sees theirs.
I like mine.. its actually very nice.
and I have a soul... (and a heart)
My soul belongs to me .
and maybe I see it a little differently to how someone that believes in a god sees theirs.
I like mine.. its actually very nice.
I truly believe it (your soul) is nice along with a good heart.
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Dusty45: I truly believe it (your soul) is nice along with a good heart.
Aaww thankyou Dusty
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Galactic_bodhi: The absence of a diety within a personal philosophy does not negate a spiritual doctrine, merely a theistic one.
I'm not sure.
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Dusty45: I'm not sure.
What aren't you sure about? The definitions are cut and dried. Science has proven energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only altered in form. That sure sounds like a soul, or spirit, to me. From a purely secular point of view that's enough evidence for me.
As for proof of a diety, any diety, not exclusive to the Abrahamic one, there is no evidence, for or against. Using Occam's Razor, all things being equal, and proof of a negative being impossible, none exist. I believe in Santa Claus more than I do a god.
That doesn't preclude a higher dimensional nature to all of us that pretty much fits the semantics laid forth in your definition of a soul.
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Galactic_bodhi: The absence of a diety within a personal philosophy does not negate a spiritual doctrine, merely a theistic one.
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Galactic_bodhi: The absence of a diety within a personal philosophy does not negate a spiritual doctrine, merely a theistic one.
Would you be saying that the Atheist holds a spiritual doctrine?
They would believe in an intangible essence?
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Claayer: Well I am one of them HUM! ::gasp:::
and I have a soul... (and a heart)
My soul belongs to me .
and maybe I see it a little differently to how someone that believes in a god sees theirs.
I like mine.. its actually very nice.
and I have a soul... (and a heart)
My soul belongs to me .
and maybe I see it a little differently to how someone that believes in a god sees theirs.
I like mine.. its actually very nice.
it smells like peanut butter cookies
i think every human has a soul? whereas animals dont?
i dunno
i dont feel like i have one sometimes cuz i assume if i did i wouldnt be beaten up by others that have one?
its a convoluted subject to be sure
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Would it matter if I called energy plus information God?
(with the infusion of spiritual Love)
(with the infusion of spiritual Love)
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Dusty45: Would it matter if I called energy plus information God?
(with the infusion of spiritual Love)
(with the infusion of spiritual Love)
That's more of a deistic or Gnostic view, not a theistic one. I mean if it matters at all...
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AnAngelAlways: I think both Potter and Claayer have good hearts and souls.
We all do, minus that dirty, rotten ole ego. hahaI kid alot.
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'soul' is an erroneous concept - some would say that the terms 'soul' and 'atheist' are mutually dismissive.....
as an Atheist myself, the matter of the soul disturbs me very little - Im more into the scientific principles of cognition - cognition explains soul quite adequately to me - principled awareness explains it even better.........
as an Atheist myself, the matter of the soul disturbs me very little - Im more into the scientific principles of cognition - cognition explains soul quite adequately to me - principled awareness explains it even better.........
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trish123: 'soul' is an erroneous concept - some would say that the terms 'soul' and 'atheist' are mutually dismissive.....
as an Atheist myself, the matter of the soul disturbs me very little - Im more into the scientific principles of cognition - cognition explains soul quite adequately to me - principled awareness explains it even better.........
as an Atheist myself, the matter of the soul disturbs me very little - Im more into the scientific principles of cognition - cognition explains soul quite adequately to me - principled awareness explains it even better.........
It could very well be erroneous and very outdated. (soul)
Although, it feels right to the heart. (for myself)
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trish123: 'soul' is an erroneous concept - some would say that the terms 'soul' and 'atheist' are mutually dismissive.....
as an Atheist myself, the matter of the soul disturbs me very little - Im more into the scientific principles of cognition - cognition explains soul quite adequately to me - principled awareness explains it even better.........
as an Atheist myself, the matter of the soul disturbs me very little - Im more into the scientific principles of cognition - cognition explains soul quite adequately to me - principled awareness explains it even better.........
How about higher ordered energy matrices?
How do you explain the apparent non-local nature of certain documented psychic phenomenon, then?
There's always room for doubt in a true atheists mind, but the principles governing mesons and bosons and their relationships with conscious are JUST now beginning to be explored, so I think its best to avoid semantical distinctions with the words "soul" or "atman" at this point in time.
"There is more on heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy..." - Hamlet
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Yea just checked i have several on my shoes why does any one need one 
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um
lets keep shoemakers in business
geez
lets keep shoemakers in business
geez
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -
Soul
Soul\, n. [OE. soule, saule, AS. swel, swl; akin to OFries. s?le, OS. s?ola, D. ziel, G. seele, OHG. s?la, s?ula, Icel. sla, Sw. sjl, Dan. sil, Goth. saiwala; of uncertain origin, perhaps akin to L. saeculum a lifetime, age (cf. Secular.)]
1. The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence." --Tylor.
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Atheist
a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.