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hm... well i dont know if your asking me or asking in general but if i had to say it, i would say that a soul is what runs the body.
its what alows us to move, to feel. i dont mean feel as in like hardwood or cold, i mean things like... love, anger, and sad. the soul is how we can 'work' as a whole. the soul allows us creativity.... like, our brain allows us to think, but without the soul the thoughts wouldnt be cognative and would be jumbled so we wouldnt be able to function.

thats not exactly the best wway to word it, but its the best i can do at this moment. sweatdrop ill try again later maby?

Well, the only person you have to prove it to is yourself. If you have a different conotation for the word belief, then look at it this way: When you've got just enough proof to make a decision, it's that gut feeling that tips the scale. That little voice in the back of your mind, begging you to think about it, just one more time. There's plenty of ways you can prove it to yourself. You just have to be ready to accept your decision. When you're sure of something, other people (who understand what you're talking about) will be sure as well.

And as for the mental disorder thing, I was stating more for he argument of "Otherkin gone bad." Either wishkin overobsessed, or Otherkin who's too off to understand what they're doing. More severe cases.

In all honesty, I think you're over-diagnosed, from what I can tell. I think you're so afraid of what you believe you SHOULD be thinking, that you've lost control over what you KNOW. So what if you work different from the observed norm? Everyone's acting anyways. And so are you. Chill out. Take a breath. You can't divine anything about yourself if you don't think about it the way you were meant to. It will always seem off to you.

But hey. I could be dead wrong. I'm just saying that's my observation and my oppinion of the matter if I'm right.

Ok, that makes sense. So unless anyone has any, lets ignore scientific or empirical evidence and focus more on "Why do you think/know a soul is there." I know it's a matter of belief. But what makes you believe? What do you believe in? I've never known anyone who had no idea of the nature of what they believed in. Even if they believed in the Unknown, they'd have a conception of that they could explain.

Well... it's not exactly easy to describe this...

When I was a kid, there was a certain point in time that I met where... um...
If you've heard of the one idea that life is a dream... and there is just one dreamer that made everything, I would have the thought that I would be a dreamer, or have somehow become detached from the initial dream itself...
And by a dreamer I mean that the world, yes, might be a dream, but then I think that other people are responsible for their self or a group.
It's a side thought though... I only come to it when I'm thinking hard on similar subjects. sweatdrop

But what my point is... the reason I come to it is that... well, it's so impossibly hard to describe this, because anyone could just claim the exact same thing.

It also makes me feel like an idiot for even trying to discuss it... but... what the idea is that, well, you know how in a video game we'll assume you see through their eyes... everything happens around them, but you can't know what's going on unless you're there?
Or, you feel the emotions of the character?
Sometimes it just feels like you're the only one real?

It's sort of like that. sweatdrop Which, thinking about the previous that just anyone could end the discussion with a "oh, me too", I don't even try to make claim to it.
Although it confuses the hell out of me... I know that a person can't be in two places at once, or all over... but is it too weird to say that the only perspective I see is just from myself here?

Further on though... I mean, sure, it's probably hard to think that thoughts and everything are only chemical reactions through some organ in the body. I can understand like, hunger and feeling of things... but what about complex reasoning... even learning?
It just confuses me.
To "agree" though, I state things in the sense that something is correct in relation to the subject, such as "according to astronomy, we are made of "star dust" in the sense that it's logical that all elements come from star processes of consuming fuel and making other elements, then exploding".
To me then... it would also have me believe that just according to my beliefs... people have a soul.

I can't really perceive an absolute end. I can perceive death... but... I can't really see just an end to anything when someone dies. It's like, they go somewhere else.
Plus... I think I've heard it said about the idea of conservation of energy... where do they go? Although, I'm pretty sure someone could think of some sort of counter to that. sweatdrop

I'd actually be rather shocked if there were anything discussion worthy of this post... and not just complete dismissal. eek

i never said what i think is what i think i should think becuase thinking what i think isnt necessarily thinking the way i think i should think. wink

i have to say it though, your missing the entire point of the thread. i said it a few times repededly, but maby itll stick better comeing form someone higher up in the guild then myself.

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And I mean solid. Not just some website that insists that Indigo Children are real. After all, there are websites out there that insist that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is actually real. However, the existence of people declaring it to be true honestly doesn't make it any more real than an idea. neutral

((And just for the record, the IPU could totally pwn the FSM any day of the week. cool ))

also, sorry about the misunderstanding mikeboii

its not that you were converseing in the thread, it was just that in response to what was being discussed, you replied with somethign completely missing the point.