Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: April 24, 2024, 6:30 pm
Atheist Forums › Community › Atheism v
souls

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Thread Modes
souls
Savannahw Offline
Member
***
Religious Views: Spiritual Atheist
Posts: 501
Threads: 7
Joined: June 3, 2013
Reputation: 13
#11
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 9:01 am
I think that it is a beautiful idea, but I don't believe in it.
Find
Reply
Norfolk And Chance Offline
Let's crush religion
***
Religious Views: Anti-Theist
Posts: 1473
Threads: 20
Joined: November 12, 2011
Reputation: 26
#12
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 9:15 am
(June 10, 2013 at 3:20 am)Minimalist Wrote: Of course not.

What kind of idiot believes in souls?

John Lear.

Ah.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

Find
Reply
Esquilax Offline
A Death Star for bad arguments.
*****
Religious Views: AF's own William Lane Craig
Posts: 11260
Threads: 61
Joined: January 5, 2013
Reputation: 123
#13
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 11:26 am
I believe in Ryan (that's me Tongue ) If I had a soul that died when I did and wasn't separate from my physical form, what the fuck good does that do anyone? I'm just me; all the other stuff is meaningless fripperies, unless you want to start teaching me to leave my body and walk through walls. If it doesn't do anything, why should I care enough to distinguish it from the rest of me?
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee

Want to see more of my writing? Check out my (safe for work!) site, Unprotected Sects!
Find
Reply
downbeatplumb Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Religious Views: What is a God anyway?
Posts: 13900
Threads: 262
Joined: January 11, 2009
Reputation: 82
#14
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Looks around for Chadwooters.


He's been a bit quiet of late hasn't he!



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.




 








Find
Reply
Tonus Offline
Senior Member
****
Religious Views: Atheist
Posts: 7140
Threads: 12
Joined: March 14, 2013
Reputation: 72
#15
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 1:20 pm
(June 10, 2013 at 3:20 am)Minimalist Wrote: Of course not.

What kind of idiot believes in souls?

The godfather of soul! How can you look at him and NOT believe in god???

[Image: mug-shot-james-brown.jpg]
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
Find
Reply
Walking Void Away
Start asking how. Stop asking why.
***
Religious Views: None. Arreligious.
Posts: 1108
Threads: 33
Joined: June 4, 2013
Reputation: 18
#16
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 1:57 pm (This post was last modified: June 10, 2013 at 2:03 pm by Walking Void.)
The "human soul" is only applicable to humans, who are sentient and reasonable.

If We finally meet reasonable and sentient aliens, I will be ballin'.
Find
Reply
Dena Offline
Junior Member
**
Religious Views: Jewish Humanist
Posts: 110
Threads: 1
Joined: May 27, 2013
Reputation: 3
#17
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 3:16 pm
No, not at all.
Find
Reply
cneron Offline
unrepentant
*
Religious Views: nope
Posts: 62
Threads: 4
Joined: May 3, 2013
Reputation: 2
#18
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 3:17 pm
If the soul dies with the body, then how is it different from simple consciousness?
- C. Neron
Find
Reply
NomenMihiNon Offline
Newbie
*
Religious Views: secular naturalist
Posts: 45
Threads: 1
Joined: October 8, 2012
Reputation: 2
#19
RE: souls
June 10, 2013 at 11:05 pm
As a metaphor for the complexity of the human mind and the interplay between our thoughts and emotions, yes. As something somehow apart from the brain (as opposed to created by it), no, regardless of whether or not it dies with the rest of me.
Find
Reply
Gilgamesh Offline
King of Heroes
Religious Views: Hentai
Posts: 1302
Threads: 13
Joined: October 11, 2012
Reputation: 19
#20
RE: souls
June 11, 2013 at 1:01 am
I believe that every human on the earth is essentially the same being, only split up into different bodies. Originally, we (or should I say 'I') were all together and a single conscious, but then we happened upon earth and split up. We are lilin, a colony of flawed and separate entities; only when we join together and become whole can we truly become perfect.

not srs and what the fuck is a soul?
Find
Reply


Atheist Forums › Community › Atheism v
souls

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  do Atheists have souls? Phatt Matt s 22 3162 April 14, 2014 at 7:43 am
Last Post: archangle
  Gingers don't have souls! (or anyone else for that matter) Sejanus 4 1845 November 22, 2013 at 8:26 pm
Last Post: Sejanus
  Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), Souls, and Atheism Willpower 72 22796 November 23, 2011 at 11:28 am
Last Post: Epimethean
  The God Conclusion: God, heaven and souls exist psilodarwin 12 3486 September 7, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Last Post: ThomM



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)