I am currently taking a intro course to philosophy and for my final I am to do a survey on a topic of my choice and thought that this would be a good place to find some people knowledgeable who might be willing to help thank you.
Age
Religion
Do you believe in a soul?
If no please explain.
If yes where do you believe the soul resides?
What reason do you give for believing the soul exists?
What do you believe happens to the soul while you are asleep?
What do you believe happens to the soul after death?
Do you believe it is possible to lose the soul? (please explain)
Please feel free to add anything that you may fee would be benificial to my survey.
Thank you for your help it is very much appreciated.
No, to do so requires belief in some sort of âinvisible etherâ or ânext worldâ, which are just left over fallacies from the pre-rational world.
Not if, by soul, you mean independent personality surviving the death of the body.
If no please explain.
I have experienced nothing that would require such a belief.
If yes where do you believe the soul resides?
The experience that is Self is made possible by the functions of the brain. No brain, no self.
What reason do you give for believing the soul exists?
n/a
What do you believe happens to the soul while you are asleep?
There are different states of consciousness for different stages of sleep. In certain stages, as for death, the self dissolves into nothing (no experiencing).
What do you believe happens to the soul after death?
It is like going to sleep â no experiencing. However, I had a dream that the universe could translate the self (the after-effect of physical causes) so that it could travel the whole universe similar to the way sound does, and that there was a location in the universe where beings were not mortal â where mortality was like a failed science experiment toward immortality, or where selves were harvested from mortal beings into an immortal state of being. âtranslateâ â like the way a tape recorder translates music from tape to speaker, or how computer translates shit fromt he hd to the screen or speakers⌠However, I have no actual experience of this happening to the âselfâ.
Do you believe it is possible to lose the soul? (please explain)
It is possible to sleep, it is possible to die⌠it is not possible to give your âexperience that is Selfâ to anybody else so that you no longer experience/are it (as in, selling oneâs soul to The Devil, 'cause you werenât using it⌠thankyou, âO Brother, Where Art Thou?â)âŚ
In my left shoulder, actually i donât know where, maybe the heart? But thats where Jesus is⌠Iâll have to think about that one.
What reason do you give for believing the soul exists?
Ze Bible zes I haff a zoul, zerefore I haff a zoul
What do you believe happens to the soul while you are asleep?
It sits there, reads a book, watches TVâŚ
What do you believe happens to the soul after death?
Heaven or Hell
Do you believe it is possible to lose the soul? (please explain)
I disagree with BMW on this, its possible to sell your soul to the devil, i.e. diliberately set yourself up for hell. In this way you lose control of your soul, and therby the soul itself.
Age: 15
Religion: Atheist
Do you believe in a soul?: No
I believe that a person has a self, if that makes sense. Itâs the person you are, the one that emerges when youâre young and havenât been exposed to society much yet. Your self is the same no matter what changes you undergo as you grow up, but you might disguise parts of it or add to it as you experience life. Thus your self is often not the personality you show to people.
However I donât believe the self survives after death, as a soul does (I suppose?). When you die, you stop experiencing life, and your self no longer exists.
Hope that makes some sense, I really havenât worked out my view properly.
PM me for debate/clarification!
religion- zero belief ⌠The paradox of pentacles
Soles exhist in the minds of the weekâŚsole is like saying energy had a choice of witch path it followsâŚenergy travels between the conducive paths polarizing particles along the way⌠the believe of a sole is happless hope for individual flatteryâŚif you wanna be the waste/ground of human energy so that a chosen phew atlantians can posses unthinkable gifts then cheersâŚwe are but a path apart âŚwith only I common likenessâŚwe are all part of the outlet of energy. All we need is something to complete a circut and our paths our critical to eatchothers existenceâŚlol dont believe a thing I just typedâŚwouldnt wanna poisen the minds of gods childrenâŚThank god for parasitesâŚ
If yes where do you believe the soul resides? â ankle, maybe?
What reason do you give for believing the soul exists? -->i think without it there can be no consciousness, therefore it must be around there somewhere
What do you believe happens to the soul while you are asleep? -->i try not to think about what it could be doingâŚa soul needs its privacy too
What do you believe happens to the soul after death? -->it either goes to heaven or hell, or maybe indiana, which is WAY more boring than hell
Do you believe it is possible to lose the soul? (please explain) -->probably, yeah. i lost a shoe the other day and i was looking for it for like, 3 hours. but then i found it under the couch. i didnât see any souls under there but you never know.