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What is a soul?

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12-14-2006 5:22 PM 		Reply to: Message 95 by Woodsy
12-14-2006 3:48 PM

Re: A change of pace
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The soul concept is an ancient error, like asking where fire goes when the fuel runs out, and is still around because it is perpetuated by organized religion.
Actually this is a good analogy. As the energy stored in organic material is oxidized heat and light are released. What happens to the mind/soul when cellular respiration ceases? Conciousness. Is it based on physics and physiology or is it a emergent property of matter and energy. Is energy becoming sentient in the form of humans a inevitable cascade that occurs because the universe exists or because it wants to? I do not know the answer. No one does. Yet.
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12-14-2006 5:35 PM

A Prayer by Sara Teasdale
Until I lose my soul and lie
Blind to the beauty of the earth,
Deaf though shouting wind goes by,Dumb in a storm of mirth;
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Until my heart is quenched at length
And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength,
Careless if I am loved again.
  
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12-14-2006 5:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 98 by Woodsy
12-14-2006 5:52 PM

Re: A change of pace
How do you know? Humans have not even figured out what energy is yet.
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