I have a question for non-believers in souls.

[allah truth]

to look at your soul through your ego will cause a multitude of contradictions. You individually will only exist in your life time, because you idividually are a result of your time of living in your body. The only thing that separates your soul from another person or even a dog or cat is the ego that is caused by your physical body.

[cleatis]

I do have an idea of a soul, but it isn't the other worldly soul many would think of. For me it's who you really are inside, under the layers inhibitions and social conditioning - it's the life in life...

I didn't really understand the question 100% so maybe this is out of place.

[SuSuSushi]

James Brown. Now HE had soul!

[LogicIsYourFriend]

Originally Posted by 17271

This is a question for people who don't believe in souls or spirits...

If we don't have souls, then why are you looking through your certain body, why not through your brother's body or through a dog's body? Why through your certain body only? Why you?

This is something I ask elsewhere, but no one ever answers in the same context, or they through around explanations that are simply biological (mom and dad mated, etc) rather than trying to answer the real quetion.

Well? What's your answer? Thanks.

Why are we looking through our own body? To me this question seems to point more toward us not having souls. Now I have no idea if the soul exists, but I do know that to see I need eyes, to feel I need skin and nerves, to hear I need eardrums, and to do all these things--and think--I need my brain. When my body dies, all these anatomical wonders will stop working, and I seriously doubt I will be able to sense anything in the same way as I could when I used my body.

So if the soul exists, either we have no senses (and probably therefore no consciousness), or we are somehow able to sense things in a different way. So far there is no evidence of a soul, but there is evidence that we can't see, hear, or think without our bodies. I guess we'll know when we die (unless we can't think when our brains are dead of course).