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Shallow:

--- Quote from: rapsodie on June 07, 2009, 11:15:20 PM ---My soul is destroyed and rebuilt everyday to some degree. Me losing my father changed who I am. If he were still alive today I'd be a different person. Maybe an easier example is to think about a person who gets in an accident and loses part of their brain. That person is changed completely. Their personality, their feelings and anything else can change. I think of people as blank slates with equal opportunity for good and evil, who's soul becomes what it is based on experiences. Its not just coincidence that people who grow up in fucked up situations are more likely to become fucked up individuals.

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See now you're attempting to understand what a soul is. Scientifically they say we only use a small portion of our brains. That small portion that we do use is responsible for how you act, think, look at life. Your soul doesn't have to be who you think you are at the moment. It could be something that has lived 1000 human lives and already expeirenced everything you have experienced and will experienced. I'm not saying it is like that. I'm saying we really have no knowledge of soul. Even in faith, what the soul really is does not get fully explained in any scripture I've read.

Triple OG Rapsodie:
When I say soul I mean your identity. Your personality and memories, who you are basically. This is what most people's concept of a soul is so that's what I'm calling it.

Shallow:

--- Quote from: rapsodie on June 08, 2009, 07:56:14 AM ---When I say soul I mean your identity. Your personality and memories, who you are basically. This is what most people's concept of a soul is so that's what I'm calling it.

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I never really heard to many explain what a soul is or understand what it is fully. But if it is what you say it may be then I would answer the soul that enters the afterlife is the identity you would have at the very end of your natural life had you lived it entirely.

Triple OG Rapsodie:
What about someone who gets some brain injury and ends up brain dead? Is their soul brain dead as well?

Shallow:

--- Quote from: rapsodie on June 08, 2009, 07:32:44 PM ---What about someone who gets some brain injury and ends up brain dead? Is their soul brain dead as well?

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No because, now I'm only saying this under the pretense that a soul is as you explained it, that brain dead persons soul would be the complete man at the end of his natural life with all of the experiences that man or woman would have had.


I personally am not so sure a soul even thinks like we do in the first place. Through movies and out own lack of understanding the universe we seem to think our souls are something like transparent blue ghosts that can do anything and go anywhere; basically super humans with powers. But why does that have to be the case? Who's to say a soul isn't just a collection of matter, energy, that enters a human (or not just humans for all we know) and life in that being is created. The memories, actions, philosophies could all be irrelevant for all I know.

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