COMMENTS:
Voted : No.
No they don't.
I'd say potentially immortal, not definitely immortal.
Like living a long time; we all have the potential, if we can just avoid being killed by something - disease, poor nutrition, accidental death, and somehow maintain our fitness and health.
I'm very fond of Aristotle's concep of the soul. Christians and various other faiths see the soul as immortal. Aristotle viewed the soul as entwined with the body. Aristotles concept of soul cannot exist without the body.
If anyone's interested or would care to read to read more, google "aristotle on the soul."
Voted : Yes.
You once told me about people and their social obligation to search for the truth, and how that is the seperation and distinction between us and the lesser mammals. Well, perhaps the soul is the driving force behind that, it seems that discontent always pushed people to ask and search, instead remaining placid and accepting their reality, could it be the soul? A fragment or piece of the supernatural that touches and connects and seperates us from other beings. Perhaps it is that fleeting connection with something supernatural that drives us to reach beyond what we know to be possible, and to question the world entire.
Clearly i havent answered the question, but i thought id put some new angle on the soul issue.
Couldn't say with certainty.
Voted : Yes.
IMO, the soul is *meant* to act as the OS-slash-conscience of the human body. But recent evnts have put the fallacy to my theory...
"But recent evnts have put the fallacy to my theory..."
Care to explain? I'm really interested.
Voted : Yes.
First, let's concede that none of us know the answer to this question. We may speculate. One thing that is clear is that there is an energy, a life force, that inhabits the flesh and animates us. When this force leaves, the flesh is "dead." Something is subtracted. Does that "something" continue to exist, and if it does, is it conscious, is it "us"? This energy would have to retain some kind of individual identity for it to be characterized as a "soul." My vote is for continued existence after death. We do need to remember here that even the flesh, the body, the corporeal self does not actually "die." It continues to exist at some molecular, atomic level. Matter, we are told by our scientists, cannot be destroyed. The form can change, but the atomic structure of bodies always exists. The "soul" sustains the physical self until it departs -- for places and in forms we do not know.
Voted : Yes.
Yes, maybe...
I think when people refer to the soul, that part which Christians believe will endure forever, they are really referring to the ego, with all its memories, desires and sense of self. I don’t think that part endures. I think what may endure is that spirit in us that is pure life—that makes us moving, living bodies. And this pure life is free of and without all the stuff that makes up the ego. If anything endures, I think it is that.
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