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Originally Posted by The Cloud  I personally don't believe that there is a soul. In addition to the questions of what energy it would be composed of and what laws would govern its behavior, I have an additional gripe; what about us would it contain? Because when it really comes down to it, our perceptions about ourselves aren't really our selves. "Me" is just a concept in our heads of who we are. It simplifies language, but does not capture the reality of the situation. Are you your personality? Your physical makeup? Your experiences? But all those things change constantly. If that's who you are, then who you truly are exists for exactly one moment, because everything changes from moment to moment. Since as soon as you have time to think about yourself, you are gone, you can never truly know who you are. That's my personal belief, at least, that we are not nouns. We are verbs. We are the actions of the moment, and persist for only that long.
So even if there is a soul, if it can't capture who I am does it really matter to me whether or not I have one? |
Good points. Of course, it does matter to many, because if such a thing doesn't exist, it means that there is nothing after death. Also, if there is no soul, we could argue there are no spirits, angels, demons, or all matter of things that people like to believe in, because it is the same idea.