Following the notion that anything that has a beginning must have an ending: Something that lasts forever cannot have a beginning. If it did have a beginning it would ultimately have an ending. If the soul lasts for an eternity after the death of a body, then the soul must have existed for an eternity before the birth of the body. Thus a soul must be timeless.
I thought about that concept too, and tried to make it works but here: If a soul isn't material, it probably can't be destroyed and then be no more. Anything material can be "made" (from already existing matter) and then can become no more once it is dismembered back to its most basics elements. However; from what we can conceive of the soul, it cannot be destroyed once it is, but it doesn't prevent it from having been created.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, if every human beings have a soul, which according to your conception have always existed, where were these billions of souls when we only were a few thousands?
-Just a thought, and btw sorry for any mistakes; english is my 2nd language.
“…it cannot be destroyed once it is, but it doesn't prevent it from having been created.”
DeleteWhat does it mean to be “created”? And if it was “created”, why couldn’t it just as easily be destroyed?
“Anyway, if every human beings have a soul, which according to your conception have always existed, where were these billions of souls when we only were a few thousands?”
I should have made it clear from the beginning that I have no belief in any established religion whatsoever, but, however, I am not prepared to completely rule out the concept of spiritualism. My conception of a soul is not that of any established religion. Thus I do not believe that when the body dies, the soul escapes to “heaven”, but rather it escapes to the “unknown”. Based on this notion, I am just as puzzled at the question “Where were these souls before the existence of mankind?” as I would be with the question “where will these souls be after the extinction of mankind?”.
Keep in mind, my observation was based on the premises that a.) there is a soul, b.) the soul is eternal, and c.) anything that has a beginning must have an ending. As I invest more and more time contemplating about what the mind is, I’m becoming more and more skeptical of the existence of a ‘soul’ - at least in the traditional sense of the word.
[I must also apologize for the late, late, late, double-late response.]
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ReplyDelete@Pier Trépanier
ReplyDeleteI'm no religious fanatic or anything but from whatever research that I have done in Hinduism (to understand my culture better) they describe that all living beings have souls. When you consider that it makes sense. So I agree with theory of "A soul is timeless".