Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Do we have souls? [View all]AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 19, 2012, 02:08 AM - Edit history (1)
Nope.
Just to point out that this soul talk is nonsense.... no matter how dear it may be to you. It's like alien abductions or something.
Pointing out the weaknesses in your emotional hypothesis is not disruptive.
If you are going to make extraordinary claims, you must back it up with extraordinary proof.
And you HAVE been changing your definitions.... which are not the usual ones most people understand. If you think all living things have a soul, do you mean that? Or just those big, moving, sentient living things we interact with? There's a big difference there.
It's all obviously very personal to you. It makes you feel good and you are no doubt a nice person who wants us all to feel that good too. But you have to be accurate.
You never tell us the actual experiences that guided you to your "soul". That's OK if they are really personal. But it does make it way difficult for us "empiricalists"
I apologize for my harshness. I am deliberately being unyielding and trying to be emotionless about it.
Y'know... it take both kinds.... both of us to "make the world go 'round". I don't think there is a soul. I think you are describing something else.... something not supernatural. I think you are unintentionally ignoring outside influences on your interpretation. But please go on with your quest to express yourself and your experiences so they can be shared. I would not have you stop.