Does the Soul Exist?

[surfstar]

Originally Posted By: Blaze
Some things cant be explained....how does an autistic child that cant read and write play Mozart with no musical training?


Brain wiring.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Triple_Se7en
Wow - when I read my post, yours presented itself here.

I have been attacked and ridiculed for many years. Doesn't bother me anymore.

I am now a vanishing act myself in this thread. Take care everyone.


I wasn't attacking you.

My point is, I DON'T KNOW. I don't know if I or others have a soul. I used to think so until I started my working career...


If your story is true, that is fantastic. I'll never know because it's never happened to me.

Drew

If you glance at my post you quoted here above, you will see I addressed it / replied to someone else (mystic).... Post #3141412

Take care and Go Souls...

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: surfstar
Originally Posted By: Blaze
Some things cant be explained....how does an autistic child that cant read and write play Mozart with no musical training?


Brain wiring.


Exactly, while there are things that can't be explained, this one can.

 

[Trav]

Originally Posted By: Blaze
Some things cant be explained....how does an autistic child that cant read and write play Mozart with no musical training?

Many things cant be explained or even comprehended by the human mind.
Infinity, other dimensions, time and space, energy just being converted from one form to another and other chicken or the egg subjects are just a few that come to mind.

 

[eljefino]

Wow.

As an Agnostic, I figure if there's an afterlife, there will be INFINITY YEARS to figure it out. So I'm not sweating it now.

As a math nerd, there are more people alive now than have ever lived and died, thanks to exponents. This could make for some interesting Rapture(tm) type stuff in this lifetime, even if man-made.

As someone who pays attention, I've seen UFOs. Don't care to claim if they're real or not.

I've seen "ghost lights" with others, investigated, found nothing. Did not set out to see them. Rehashing the nights events, a framed photo of a church jumped off its nail in the wall, crashing to the floor. Poltergeists? Maybe.

I'm pretty easy going. There might be souls. Don't have to convince anyone one way or another.

Cool story, Triple-seven.

 

[buster]

^ +1

 

[friendly_jacek]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear


Exactly, while there are things that can't be explained, this one can.


Speaking about things that can't be explained, I have a friend whom I haven't seen in a long time. He has a wife who is a very nice person. She would reluctantly tells storied from her previous life. She told me about it only when we knew them for a while. She apparently believed she was an Egyptian queen in her previous life and she had lots of detailed memories. She was otherwise normal, gainfully employed, no brain trauma, or drugs that I would know, etc.

To this day I'm not sure what to think of that, but I'm usually skeptic about it.

 

[Virtuoso]

The burden of proof is on the believer.

I wish there was, but I doubt it.

 

[Gebo]

Sure the "soul" exists.

We are 3 part beings made up of a spirit, a soul and a body.

I am a "spirit", I have a "soul" and I live in a 'body".

Your "soul" is comprised of your mind, your will and your emotions.

At some point in your life, your physical body will die and your spirit and soul will live for eternity. Now the best part is each of us get to choose where we spend eternity.

 

[TooManyWheels]

Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek
She would reluctantly tells storied from her previous life. She told me about it only when we knew them for a while.


I have at least one friend (possibly many more) who has memories of past lives. I believe in the soul and reincarnation (in some form at least) but am not consciously in touch with past experiences. This friend tells me that certain fears I have may be related to experiences in previous lives.

 

[friendly_jacek]

Originally Posted By: TooManyWheels


I have at least one friend (possibly many more) who has memories of past lives. I believe in the soul and reincarnation (in some form at least) but am not consciously in touch with past experiences. This friend tells me that certain fears I have may be related to experiences in previous lives.


I find it fascinating. Is this a known phenomenon?

 

[friendly_jacek]

Originally Posted By: TooManyWheels


I have at least one friend (possibly many more) who has memories of past lives. I believe in the soul and reincarnation (in some form at least) but am not consciously in touch with past experiences. This friend tells me that certain fears I have may be related to experiences in previous lives.


I find it fascinating. Is this a known phenomenon?

Edit: looks like it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_life_regression

 

[Vikas]

Fascinating discussion! How exactly do we define a thing to be "live"? And how does a "live" thing turn in to "dead"?

Has anybody been able to take bunch of "dead" things, mix it up in a petri-dish and them create "life" out of it without adding any "live" ingredients to it?

Is it just a sequence of carbon elements and DNA pattern which makes life? If so, technology would be able to create life if not now but soon enough. But until that happens, I continue to believe in soul/spirit vs body differentiation.

 

[Drew99GT]

My mom and dad tried for several years to have a child, unsuccessfully. They never gave up and my mom claims an angel told her in her sleep one night that she would get pregnant (I now have over 19,000 posts on BITOG as a result!

). My mom has told me a few weird stories like that about having what she claims were angels foretell future events to her!

 

[eljefino]

Originally Posted By: Gebo
Sure the "soul" exists.

We are 3 part beings made up of a spirit, a soul and a body.

I am a "spirit", I have a "soul" and I live in a 'body".

Your "soul" is comprised of your mind, your will and your emotions.

At some point in your life, your physical body will die and your spirit and soul will live for eternity. Now the best part is each of us get to choose where we spend eternity.


Could you elaborate? Would you say a spirit could be shared/ contagious while the soul stays with you? IOW, the expression "His spirit lives on" means it's been shared?

 

[HardbodyLoyalist]

Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek


She apparently believed she was an Egyptian queen in her previous life and she had lots of detailed memories.


Have you ever noticed that people who claim to have knowledge of their past lives invariably think they were royalty or otherwise extremely important people?

 

[buster]

Originally Posted By: HardbodyLoyalist
Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek


She apparently believed she was an Egyptian queen in her previous life and she had lots of detailed memories.


Have you ever noticed that people who claim to have knowledge of their past lives invariably think they were royalty or otherwise extremely important people?


Yes! Why can't someone come out and say they were a dirt farmer in Poland?

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: HardbodyLoyalist
Originally Posted By: friendly_jacek


She apparently believed she was an Egyptian queen in her previous life and she had lots of detailed memories.


Have you ever noticed that people who claim to have knowledge of their past lives invariably think they were royalty or otherwise extremely important people?

No one ever says they are a reincarnated New York sewer rat (even though a lot of people act like one)!

 

[PandaBear]

I'm more interested in why people only know of things that they were taught with or raised with, when "seeing" past life or unexplainable spiritual events.

As in, many Buddhists I know have seen the spirits of recent death coming to tell them something, and Christians I know have seen angels in purple ropes coming to tell them stuff, etc. But you never see the other way around, not a Christian seeing recent death coming back on the 7th or 49th days, or a Buddhist seeing a purple roped angel coming down to tell them stuff, etc.

This just doesn't fit the normal distribution of how things happen based on genetics, location, time, age, gender, or any statistically significant categories.

Except in psychology class they've done experiments on people that can be hypnotized, and concluded that some people can be hypnotized even by an actor, while others just cannot, and they have no explanation about why yet.

 

[MolaKule]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear


...This just doesn't fit the normal distribution of how things happen based on genetics, location, time, age, gender, or any statistically significant categories...



Yes, but you're basing these things on a naturalistic view.