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Difference between soul and spirit?
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I believe that we are made of " a trinity" - body, soul and spirit...Is the soul the persoality of an individual whilst the sprit is the part that lives on after death? Or the other way around? Or does anyone else have there ownpersonal theories or believe soul and spirit don't exist?
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I would have thought that it is Mind, Body and Spirit. The soul being part of the spirit. But then I suppose it depends whether you view yourself as a body with a soul, or a soul with a body. You can pretty much do anything to the body and mind, but the spirit and soul remain untainted.
I think I need to cut down on the caffeine intake.
I think I need to cut down on the caffeine intake.
The concept of personality is not universal, it is a western idea and not every culture has this as way of explaining the who we are and why we are not all the same. My view then if it is not something universal to all human societies, it is only a cultural construct. So if there is such a thing as a soul it is not a personality.
Similar to the post about reincarnation. Once you are dead, that's it. However if we did have souls I might be tempted to sell it to the devil if the price was right.
Similar to the post about reincarnation. Once you are dead, that's it. However if we did have souls I might be tempted to sell it to the devil if the price was right.
"I always worked on the basis of torture. Henry VIII�s favoured master-torturers would be expertly capable of breaking the body, then the mind, then the spirit."
Surely spirit in that context is analogous to willpower, not any exclusively religious conotation?
Anyway, as an atheist, I have no personal concept of 'soul', merely an understanding of you believers say, and your interpretation isn't one I've encountered before.
Surely spirit in that context is analogous to willpower, not any exclusively religious conotation?
Anyway, as an atheist, I have no personal concept of 'soul', merely an understanding of you believers say, and your interpretation isn't one I've encountered before.
Llamatron.
No it's her human body's mind that has forgotton. There is no such thing as getting 2 yrs back as that is in the brain's past. The spirit knows no time or space. Look at it this way, on a clear night when you stare at the stars in the sky the human mind tries to put a boundary on time and space but it doesn't exist. If you were able to just keep going into space without any limits the mind cannot comprehend something that has no end!
No it's her human body's mind that has forgotton. There is no such thing as getting 2 yrs back as that is in the brain's past. The spirit knows no time or space. Look at it this way, on a clear night when you stare at the stars in the sky the human mind tries to put a boundary on time and space but it doesn't exist. If you were able to just keep going into space without any limits the mind cannot comprehend something that has no end!
Llamatron, that's an interesting question. Her physical brain has forgotten, there's no doubt of that, but when she does shuffle off this mortal coil, then her soul will know all. I don't believe the soul surviving physical death has anything to do with religion, which in all cases is man-made. Spirituality is far bigger and far more complex than anything we can ever imagine.
I was going to post this to one of the religious people, as I genuinely don't understand how they can square the point I'm about to make, but Octavius, the only one to respond has a new take on what the soul is such that it didn't quite work. However, I can take it from Naomi's point.
If the soul captures the essential essence of the human being, what happens when you have someone who has a condition like bipolar disorder, not drug or otherwise artificially induced, but occuring of its own volition? It can often be controlled with drugs, but the 'balanced' state of mind is not the natural one; that is the bipolar disorder, so what does the soul retain?
If the soul takes the bi-polar condition as the 'correct' version of the person, it seems rather unfair, since with a little chemical assistance, the person can lead what we would recognise as a normal life. Does this mean that a person naturally inclined to psychopathic behaviour, but controlled by drugs is spiritually a psycho?
If the soul takes the 'chemically-corrected' version of the person, then you're opening up a whole barrel of worms there too. What if someone takes drugs and destroys their mind? We know this happens.
How do those of you who believe in such things square it?
If the soul captures the essential essence of the human being, what happens when you have someone who has a condition like bipolar disorder, not drug or otherwise artificially induced, but occuring of its own volition? It can often be controlled with drugs, but the 'balanced' state of mind is not the natural one; that is the bipolar disorder, so what does the soul retain?
If the soul takes the bi-polar condition as the 'correct' version of the person, it seems rather unfair, since with a little chemical assistance, the person can lead what we would recognise as a normal life. Does this mean that a person naturally inclined to psychopathic behaviour, but controlled by drugs is spiritually a psycho?
If the soul takes the 'chemically-corrected' version of the person, then you're opening up a whole barrel of worms there too. What if someone takes drugs and destroys their mind? We know this happens.
How do those of you who believe in such things square it?
