If the existence of an enduring soul was proven...

[Belacqua]

Funny thing about " souls"...

Nobody can quite define it

For all Christians in the Thomist tradition, a soul is defined as the form (morphe) of the body. It cannot exist without matter (hyle). 

The unbelievable part is their faith that the same form will be translated at death onto a different kind of matter. 

I don't know what percentage of Christians think this, but Catholicism is generally Thomist, so it's a basic part of Catholic dogma.

[The Valkyrie]

Funny thing about " souls"...

Nobody can quite define it, can't tell you what it' s made out of - where it came from, where it resides - or even what it' s function is.

But -- they' re positive everyone has one.

My guess - it' s your appendix.



It' s as good as any other stupid theory floating about.

Phychic, ethereal, phlegm.

I have jyst defined "soul".

[ignoramus]

I use inverse logic. I know I have a soul because my hair is not red.

Don't make me get out my venn diagram!

[tackattack]

Bel, I don't know the numbers either.
Me personally I'm generally a substance dualist. The spirit (pneuma) is the part of us that speaks with God, separate from the "ruah" or inner strength of a person, and the Holy Spirit which speaks back to us with God's voice.

Jewish culture really didn't ascribe to a separate soul from the body. it's was all a body embodied with God's breath

If we're going into a deep discussion on it, I'll have to reread some of my Gregory of Nyssa .

[polymath257]

If souls are real, it would open up all sorts of interesting physics questions. But that's about the only way it would change my life.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Funny thing about " souls"...

Nobody can quite define it, can't tell you what it' s made out of - where it came from, where it resides - or even what it' s function is.

But -- they' re positive everyone has one.

My guess - it' s your appendix.



It' s as good as any other stupid theory floating about.

My appendix was incinerated back in '88.

Does it show?