I’m definitely getting nit-picky, but I’m seeing a lot of definitions for what a soul is (from an Ecosia search), and one definition I like is “an individual person.” I generally think of a soul as someone’s consciousness, which to me means that all life has souls. But I have been called a hippie before 😅
There is no such thing as a soul
There are such things as metaphors.
And for what would the soul be a metaphor?
A person’s total self.
As far as any repeatable experiment has been able to tell us, that’s just the body though.
Indeed. And when we say of a strong person that they are an ox, we don’t pretend they have cow DNA.
Cause you don’t believe in one or cause you have yet to see proof of one?
If there is no proof then it’s no different than a fantasy. The entire concept of a soul is a desire for personhood to be immortal.
I don’t believe in souls either but things’ unproveness or even unprovability is not a synonym to non-existence.
It is synonymous with fantasy though.
Not necessarily, no.
In my case both, but I am an atheist who believes that this world and this life is all that we have and can prove exists.
I am agnostic enough to admit that could be wrong, and underlying this is that existing forever, even in paradise, sounds terrifying to me.
As of yet no-one has even been able to tell me what a soul is supposed to be. So I guess both.
I’m definitely getting nit-picky, but I’m seeing a lot of definitions for what a soul is (from an Ecosia search), and one definition I like is “an individual person.” I generally think of a soul as someone’s consciousness, which to me means that all life has souls. But I have been called a hippie before 😅