what do you all see in spiritualism?

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my soul is positivity,the true hippiespirit...love..no war..I'm a flower lover...tattoos..that's me..that's my soul
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So your "soul" is just a bunch of your arbitrarily selected character traits, political views and some stuff you like? What's the need for even mentioning it, let alone suggesting it as an entity? Those are all just functions of your brain, except you separate them from all the others and enshrine them, using mental gymnastics.

And why are your tattoos included in your soul and not - say - your hemorrhoids? Seems to me like your soul is just a way for you to aggrandize yourself, by focusing on your favorite aspects of your personality and defining those as the "real" you, the "core" you - a soul, a spirit, while all the stuff you're not too proud of - that's just incidental and irrelevant to who you like to see yourself as. It's a self-serving, escapist fantasy. And spirituality is just a way to be in love with yourself.

ridiculous?

Yeah, pretty much...

or does it make sense??or no sense?a soul..is a soul which we feel within ourself...

If soul is just a metaphor for how you generally feel, then soul is not an entity. There's no difference between what you consider to be your soul and all the rest of your characteristics.

Exactly. All this stuff, "soul", "spirituality",etc. is metaphorical or unevidenced woo. The first use is very handy when using language to describe the wealth of the human experience; the second is for people who make claims of knowledge about reality that they can't back up with evidence.

It appears to me tiger that you're probably using the first. I have no problem with that. I often use such words informally, which is most of the time. I only stop using them when I'm having a precise sceptical discussion. Kudos for putting thought into it and engaging with us steely sceptics

If that is indeed the case, the question of what happens to your soul becomes moot. If you're dead, you no longer have any characteristics. Of course, you do live on metaphorically in memory and in the differences you have made to the world. That is the real legacy, and the real "afterlife". And it's one worth fighting for, in my opinion. If I can make the world a tiny bit better, make some people happy and change some attitudes for the better, I will die happy. I'd much rather that than go into some celestial garden for all eternity.

I'm glad you like the forum, I like you too and I hope you stick around! Rep point incoming