Void, It was not meant to be unfair. You either can accept the assumption that it might exist and (since it is by definition intangible and unprovale materialistically) share your opinion on whether it's eternal or not or you can withold assuming anything. If you're unwilling to assume anything then the third option is for you. This poll is fairly simply a poll for people who feel there is a soul, or can temporarily accept that mental construct for the purposes of qualifying an abstraction.
@ Everyone else - It's (to use Adrian example) like asking you whether an escargo, peanutbutter and sourkraut ice cream existed do you think it would taste good. Obviously I'm not assuming sucha flavor exists or that you must taste it before forming any opinions on it. The definition were straight out of the dictionary except for 4, but it's not really important.
I really don't see why such a simple question always ends up so difficult. If you believed you had a soul and defined that as whatever definition you define as a soul (that's seperate from mind and brain) would one of it's aspects be eternal existence?
@ Everyone else - It's (to use Adrian example) like asking you whether an escargo, peanutbutter and sourkraut ice cream existed do you think it would taste good. Obviously I'm not assuming sucha flavor exists or that you must taste it before forming any opinions on it. The definition were straight out of the dictionary except for 4, but it's not really important.
I really don't see why such a simple question always ends up so difficult. If you believed you had a soul and defined that as whatever definition you define as a soul (that's seperate from mind and brain) would one of it's aspects be eternal existence?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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