When does a baby recieve it's soul?

Curnir said:
True. But then again I can't prove that there 'isn't' a purple kangaroo jumping around in the forrests of north east Minnesota either.
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Actually you can, from the description you give the thing we are looking for is a kangaroo (it is also purple and “jumpy”) We have a limited area were it can be (Minnesota)
With enough resources you will be able to find all kangaroos in Minnesota, and within acceptable margins of error conclude if there are any purple and “jumpy” ones.

The problem with the soul is that nobody seems to know what it is.
 
deBergerac said:
Actually you can, from the description you give the thing we are looking for is a kangaroo (it is also purple and “jumpy”) We have a limited area were it can be (Minnesota)
With enough resources you will be able to find all kangaroos in Minnesota, and within acceptable margins of error conclude if there are any purple and “jumpy” ones.
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Ahh but it could be hiding.
 
you missed a lot of fun

You should have forced her into the downward spiral her 'logic' forced on her. If passing through the birth canal is required to have a soul what about the kids from c-birth? I would have had her chasing her tail for hours of fun (for me).

Does a mom have a bunch of souls stored someplace in her body that excape through the vaginal wall to enter this kid? What happens to the surplus? Why would He allow children to be born without a soul.

So what happens to souless kids? Are they condemed to hell because they couldn't be born vaginally? Should the penalty for killing these souless people be less then souled ones? If killing a souless individual is ~ok then aborting a fetus would be ok.

And round and round she'd go!
 
Most psychics, like Edgar Cayce, calls the subconscious mind the soul. If that's at all true, then your soul is controlling your instincts, reflexes, blinking, breathing, personality and dreams.

How the soul enters the body is a whole different story...
 
AmyWilson said:
Most psychics, like Edgar Cayce, calls the subconscious mind the soul. If that's at all true, then your soul is controlling your instincts, reflexes, blinking, breathing, personality and dreams.

How the soul enters the body is a whole different story...
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Most psychics can't even tell me where my black silk undies are, much less speak with any authority on things "spiritual."
Um, your subconscious does not control your involuntary body functions.

Another thing I wonder is, if a person is born without a soul, does that mean that they give birth to kids without souls? Or is it true that every sperm is sacred? Every sperm is great... if a sperm is wasted, god gets most irate...
 
They buy them.

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Godmode said:
It's not just a matter of practice, some people have real talents that extend beyond what you'd expect just from practicing. I do think it's a brain thing, some people may have limited genius, where it's focused in one area. Nobody knows yet why this is. My brother has been able to do perfect perspective drawing since he was 3 years old. That didn't come from practice. Maybe it came from the way he looks at things, I have no idea. I don't have it though, I CAN draw perspective, but I had to learn it.
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good point...perhaps genetics will answer that kind of question?
 
Admiral said:
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... I can't agree that all of conciousness can be explained by neurochemistry.

My point is that from an external point of view, I could theoretically understand how all the inputs enter my brain, and then particular outputs emerge. In between, of course, there are complicated processes involving millions of neurons, but all follow physical laws.

The trouble I have is- why am I experiencing what I am experiencing? Does any set of neurons arranged into a particular pattern create its own conciousness? If so, we could call this conciousness a "soul," although I hesitate because the term may encourage fundamentalists to claim science has proven the existence of an afterlife, which is not what this is about.

My point is that every brain seems to have its own conciousness where this abstract conciousness believes it is making its own choices and experiencing its own sensations, when it is merely an observer to the workings of the brain. Why?

(Is this stuff cool or what?)
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You seem to agree that conciousness is a function of the brain.
But I too would hesitate to equate 'conciousness' with 'soul'.

Consiousness is the brain excersising it's advanced powers of observation and deduction WRT itself.
It would seem that each conciousness IS 'unique' in that the function is modified by ones experience, and that the original synaptic layout is unique in every individual anyway.

Conciousness is such a complex function and to actually observe and understand it is such a difficult task, that it is not at all surprising that one may feel it is some special thingamagig like a 'soul' that is somehow separate from the brain.

Yes, I agree this is very cool stuff.
If you have not read his works already, check out Pinker who posits 'mind is what the brain does'.
 
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