What Is The Soul?

devnull said:
But doesn't that render the bible's definition of "soul" to be awfully trivial and unnecessary/superfluous?

Why didn't they just use the word "blood", "hemoglobin" (considering the bible is God's word, and Im sure God knew about hemoglobin back then) or indeed "life" instead?
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Well, this idea, plus those David Henson listed in the last post I responded to, are fairly standard amongst the Jehovah's Witnesses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses

Most people just close the door on them, but talking with one is fairly interesting. It is amazing how many religions sincerely believe they have the one and only TruthTM.
 
David Henson said:
No. The blood and life isn't "sentient" in any fashion. What is special about it is that it belongs to God, so when God gave Noah permission to use animals as food it was with the respectful stipulation that the blood of the animal be poured out on the ground to signify it belongs to God. Also the importance of blood sacrifice.

In a sense your soul isn't transfused at the hospital in that it doesn't belong to you. It all ends up returned to the earth from whence we came.
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So you've basically defined "the soul" as blood. So?
 
David Henson said:
Uh . . . that I don't know. Here in the land of Intregue we call some music and food soul if that helps. Though I can't imagine why. Unrelated, I would think.
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My mistake, I was thinking of "The Dole"
The soul is a type of underground dwelling blind insectivore, right?
 
To answer the OP:
The soul is whatever the heck the claimant wants it to be. It is often defined(a bit of an oxymoron) as some undefined animating "thing" that makes human life more special.
 
paximperium said:
So you've basically defined "the soul" as blood. So?
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I was beginning to think JW as well, it's why I mentioned blood transfusions ... ;)

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David Henson said:
No. The blood and life isn't "sentient" in any fashion. What is special about it is that it belongs to God, so when God gave Noah permission to use animals as food it was with the respectful stipulation that the blood of the animal be poured out on the ground to signify it belongs to God. Also the importance of blood sacrifice.

In a sense your soul isn't transfused at the hospital in that it doesn't belong to you. It all ends up returned to the earth from whence we came.
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If a person deals with any kind of blood disorders, do you think this points to an issue with the soul, and/or what your god claims from the soul/blood?

And are you a Jehovah's Witness? Regardless, I'd still appreciate answers to that last post I made about describing Jehovah ...
 
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paximperium said:
To answer the OP:
The soul is whatever the heck the claimant wants it to be. It is often defined(a bit of an oxymoron) as some undefined animating "thing" that makes human life more special.
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I'm superficially aware of Jehovah's Witness(having dealt with some of their dangerous idiocy before) and their interpretation of the Biblical passages but I still don't see what's so special about blood or how it relates to the "soul".
 
Hokulele said:
Mary Baker Eddy!


*Runs*
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More like Massachusetts politicians(here's looking at you Kerry)pandering to these nutters in various bills that would've allowed prayer to be considered a valid tax-deductible/health insurance billed "treatment".
 
Hilarious.

Educated white brats discussing soul.

Be glad you don't have any.
Why would you need soul?

Crud, you have a car and a house.
Soul is the exclusive domain of the have-nots.

This shouldn't be hard to grasp.

Little more soul, please?
War can help a non-minority to find some soul.

(There's got to be easier ways)
 
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