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Souls?
#11
RE: Souls?
I'm going to be tormented in hell because I believe heaven should be populated by animals and plants? Not just any animals, but animals I personally know here on earth? As if Yahweh could be even more of a dick?
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#12
RE: Souls?
I don't make the rules.

The universe would be VERY different otherwise.
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#13
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(May 10, 2015 at 5:34 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: The concept of souls came about before we understood digital storage of information.

So, would that mean that a soul is the sum of all the information stored in our brains, all our memories?

Both god and soul have no solid definition and a lot of vague woo squeezed in where there should be one
It's mind blowing that this word is so fundamental to a belief system, yet no one knows what it means

(May 10, 2015 at 5:38 pm)KUSA Wrote: The idea that a soul exists is restarted to put it mildly.

Lol, restarted is my new favorite insult from now on
dang autocorrect huh?
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#14
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Retarded. Fucking autocorrect sucks.
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#15
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(May 10, 2015 at 5:55 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I don't make the rules.

The universe would be VERY different otherwise.

trust me, no one doubts that

I just started to really appreciate the fact that you don't make the rules
no offence
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#16
RE: Souls?
(May 10, 2015 at 5:49 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: All the descendants of Adam acquire their souls upon the first breath.  The last gasp of a dying individual is the soul leaving the body.

Souls may be briefly dislodged during sneezing, while your soul is swirling around in the snot spray, your mortal remains are especially vulnerable to predation by satan.  That's why we (usually) say "Bless you" immediately following a sneeze as the individual may be in terrible peril until their soul is fully re-inhaled.

Animals, not being sons of Adam cannot and do not have souls.  Assuming, or asserting they do is VILE BLASPHEMY; your soul can and will be tormented in Hell as a result of such an awful transgression upon your demise, and the torment will be infinitely painful and of infinite duration.

If you drown, the bubbles seen coming up out of the water are the air in your lungs, and your soul.  If you survive, you will need to be immediately re-integrated with your soul.

Also, several people sneezing simultaneously in a confined space are in no danger of soul swapping, they don't work that way.  If you want to worry about it, however, it wouldn't hurt.

You've made a mistake in your etymology.  It is the spirit which you are talking about, which means "breath" a la "inspire" and "respiration."  It is the breath that God breathed into man.  The soul is different than the spirit.
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#17
RE: Souls?
(May 10, 2015 at 6:15 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You've made a mistake in your etymology.  It is the spirit which you are talking about, which means "breath" a la "inspire" and "respiration."  It is the breath that God breathed into man.  The soul is different than the spirit.

MORE words with no meaning? Gee
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#18
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(May 10, 2015 at 5:56 pm)Neimenovic Wrote:
(May 10, 2015 at 5:34 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: The concept of souls came about before we understood digital storage of information.

So, would that mean that a soul is the sum of all the information stored in our brains, all our memories?
What else would it mean? It's just putting it in scientific terms.
I won't deny the possibility that we are more complex than that, that our mind is a product of something more fundamental that we haven't discovered yet. I don't see why we should assume that, though. I think the default assumption should be that our 'souls' is information.
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#19
RE: Souls?
(May 10, 2015 at 6:18 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: What else would it mean? It's just putting it in scientific terms.
I won't deny the possibility that we are more complex than that, that our mind is a product of something more fundamental that we haven't discovered yet. I don't see why we should assume that, though. I think the default assumption should be that our 'souls' is information.

But wouldn't that mean that fetuses don't have them, or have little of them? Is there some kind of quantity measurement? That would also mean that animals and computers have souls

Trying to define a soul is like chasing the wind. The concept just doesn't mean anything, no matter how hard we try to pin it down

Maybe it's because it comes from a time when the understanding of biology was very limited and life was a great mystery, where it used to be some sort of explanation for consciousness and/or memory
it's barely relatable as anything more than a metaphor in this age, though
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#20
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Souls, what are they? Religious people consider the soul to be what they really are. The body is just a physical projection of themselves so they can interact and exist in this realm.

Stupid but that's it.
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