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Do you believe you have a soul?

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  • #32
    DyldeBrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,406 ✭✭✭DyldeBrill


    i gave my soul to milhouse the little rat.Gave it to him n a piece of paper for a few quid.WEIRD stuff is going on without it, trying to track him down

    Might just head of to Moes for a flaming moe until I think of a plan to get it back


  • #33
    builttospill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭builttospill


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    You can only see it when you open your third eye and look into the heart of hearts of the collective consciousness of humanity.

    hahahahaha!


  • #34
    2012 Rio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭2012 Rio


    I had one a while back, but I sold it on.


  • #35
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    it's the internal mechanism that makes automatic doors open when you walk up to them!
    Well then I don’t have one. Those poxy doors never open for me. I’m always left standing there like a tit.
    who the fug wrote: »
    Well it started off as R&B became soul and then suddenly became R & B again

    Does that help

    Don't ask about Northern Soul, or we will be here al night

    Nope, doesnt help :P


  • #36
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    builttospill wrote: »
    The word "soul" pisses me off. It's essentially a buzzword ala "energy" to describe a host of characteristics that are actually formed in the brain. Back in primitive times when very litte was known about the brain, people would automatically think that any kind of courage, emotion or morality etc a person had came from their "soul"- a simple, religious explanation for something they couldn't fathom. Well no, all these things are born out of the complexities of the brain so there is absolutely no such thing as a soul-just one's brain which makes us tick on a spiritual level.

    Soul is just a nice airy-fairy word to sum up all of these emotions. I mean can someone tell me where it can be found or will I be given a load of astral mumbo jumbo that is in no way tangible with science?

    Silly guy believing the scientists because they have degrees. Can you tell me where the courage factory exists in this brain you speak of. Oh the courage organ . Could be the medula oblumgata i suppose. Crocodiles are angry because they have all them teeth and nobody to brush them.


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  • #37
    tony007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭tony007


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    I'm worm food that's still in the manufacturing stage. Nothing more.

    That's...... special


  • #38
    2012 Rio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭2012 Rio


    No, I have a Rio. I test drove the Soul but i didn't like it.


  • #39
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I don't believe I have a soul but this is one occasion where I would be happy to be proved wrong :pac:


  • #40
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Of course. Am weighed down with soul it's a immense burden in rocco's cutthroat modern life

    or.. the spiritual I don't believe in but I like to keep the spirit


  • #41
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,650 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Silly guy believing the scientists because they have degrees. Can you tell me where the courage factory exists in this brain you speak of. Oh the courage organ . Could be the medula oblumgata i suppose. Crocodiles are angry because they have all them teeth and nobody to brush them.

    What the f*ck are you on about?


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  • #42
    gcgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    James brown had soul till he kicked the eternal soul bucket


  • #43
    gcgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    Did is about as silly as believing in a god :) or Aslan is really a talking lion


  • #44
    Pacifist Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Pacifist Pigeon


    No, because I'm an atheist...
    ... and ginger.


  • #45
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    What the f*ck are you on about?

    You should probably try read the post again after the quote that preceeds the post. If this does not put things in perspective for you , I probably couldnt . I also find saying what are you on about is alot more civil than saying what the **** are you on about , maybe because my soul is more sensitive than yours.


  • #46
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    gcgirl wrote: »
    James brown had soul till he kicked the eternal soul bucket

    he gave up the kfc?! couldnt live without his soul food


  • #47
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I had one, but I traded it for a pack of twenty menthols. Some guy with hooves, didn't say what he needed it for.


  • #48
    gcgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    I'm worm food that's still in the manufacturing stage. Nothing more.
    Nah cremation all the way with highway to hell blasting out the speakers


  • #49
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Soul: A persons moral or emotional nature or sense of identity. That'll die with me


  • #50
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    I'm worm food that's still in the manufacturing stage. Nothing more.
    Hooray for low self-esteem?

    I always found the whole "I'm just worm food" thing a bit strange. Surely no one in their right mind could possibly consider themselves as being nothing more than "worm food in the manufacturing stage".


  • #51
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Checked the poll, majority insisting they have no soul. I rest my case.


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  • #52
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    I'm worm food that's still in the manufacturing stage. Nothing more.
    Hooray for low self-esteem?

    I always found the whole "I'm just worm food" thing a bit strange. Surely no one in their right mind could possibly consider themselves as being nothing more than "worm food in the manufacturing stage".

    Why not? I have high self esteem and love myself. I'm still essentially just a pile of matter arranged in such a way to present something called a human being.


  • #53
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    Why not? I have high self esteem and love myself. I'm still essentially just a pile of matter arranged in such a way to present something called a human being.
    Ah but self aware matter, maybe a soul makes matter self aware. Thats why computers are our slaves for now.


  • #54
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Do you think that disenfranchised immoral skanger that blew a young girls brains out with a shotgun had soul. Not a hope, how old was he we are all works in progress but some never mature despite appearing all grown up in a capitalist environment. this is the only area of maturity that really matters for me but it's a major chink in the armor of what's expected in this climate


  • #55
    Priori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭Priori


    Neurons firing in the brain may give a physical basis for our experiential life (which is what I take to be my soul) but those who believe consciousness boils down to 'just that' are either already heavily invested in academic or ideological physicalism/materialism (most of the time ridiculing anything that doesn't fit into a scientistic framework) or simply can't think for themselves so follow whatever popular science authors tell them is the case (Dawkins/Dennett spring to mind).


  • #56
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    cloptrop wrote: »
    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    Why not? I have high self esteem and love myself. I'm still essentially just a pile of matter arranged in such a way to present something called a human being.
    Ah but self aware matter, maybe a soul makes matter self aware. Thats why computers are our slaves for now.

    Do you consider yourself superior to non self aware matter such as a chair?


  • #57
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    This is one of those "wishful thinking" topics. The "soul" only exists as an idea because we - well, some of us - think it would be a nice thing to have. The idea offers consolation in the face of death, the illusion that it's not the end, that "something" will carry on. Unfortunately, there is no rational reason to believe it's a real thing.

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #58
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    Do you consider yourself superior to non self aware matter such as a chair?

    Yes I am the boss of the chair , I can create a chair , I can destroy a chair , I can rape a chair , I can dress the chair up in ladies underwear and take it to the park .
    What kind of question is that . ??
    I am expecting a life changing comeback here man , raise my level of consciousness by 5 hp .


  • #59
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    Do you consider yourself superior to non self aware matter such as a chair?
    I have a better question. Do you consider yourself to be on the same level or lower level than a chair?


  • #60
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Priori wrote: »
    Neurons firing in the brain may give a physical basis for our experiential life (which is what I take to be my soul) but those who believe consciousness boils down to 'just that' are either already heavily invested in academic or ideological physicalism/materialism (most of the time ridiculing anything that doesn't fit into a scientistic framework) or simply can't think for themselves so follow whatever popular science authors tell them is the case (Dawkins/Dennett spring to mind).

    I'd say it would be more accurate to say that the rational mind refuses to randomly 'believe' in things that cannot be measured or observed.


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  • #61
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I'd say it would be more accurate to say that the rational mind refuses to randomly 'believe' in things that cannot be measured or observed.
    So the rational mind wouldn't have believed in radio waves a few hundred years ago, is what you're saying.


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