What is a soul?

[hankletank]

So I'm writing a paper about a book (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanence) and I'm at a point in the paper where I need to define what role the soul plays in relation to human interaciton with other humans. And I don't really have the slightest idea what I've gotten myself into. So I decided to ask you guys/girls for some help. So in short:

What is the role of the soul with regards to human interaction/relationships?

[Viraljimmy]

Heh.

[Elephantitis Man]

I traded my soul for a George Foreman Grill.

"Knock out the fat!"

[Source]

quote:Originally posted by Elephantitis Man:

I traded my soul for a George Foreman Grill.

"Knock out the fat!"

It's a lean mean fat reducing grilling machine.

[Merlinman2005]

If it's about the soul's purpose in relation to other souls, I dunno what to tell you.

It's just people interact. The soul is contained in these people. Those who believe it as such.. believe it as such. Those who don't still contain the souls and take part in its interaction with others' (if the soul is indeed there).

[Loc Dogg]

Man and woman are two parts of one soul. True love is when a man and woman are attracted to each other in every way possible, and their souls unite.

It sounds lame, but it's true. Ask a Sufi or a Kabbalist. And i mean REAL Kabbalist, not that shitty Hollywood Kabbalah.

[kenwih]

a horse ate a radish.

[Twisted_Ferret]

quote:Originally posted by Loc Dogg:

when a man and woman are attracted to each other in every way possible

Like... Siamese twins?

[ArmsMerchant]

According to the New Gospel, "your soul (subconscious, id, spirit, past, etc.) is the sum total of every feeling you're ever created (had)."

According to the New Paradigm, "your soul" is a misnomer, as the real you IS "soul," defined as a localized manifestation of the universal force/unified field/kingdom of God.

According to the shamanic paradigm, one's soul is one's vital energy, some or all of which may be lost, and which a shaman may recover.

[Viraljimmy]

"Conversation"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



God and I in space alone ...

and nobody else in view ...

"And where are all the people,

Oh Lord" I said,

"the earth below

and the sky overhead

and the dead that I once knew?"

"That was a dream," God smiled

and said: "The dream that seemed to

be true; there were no people

living or dead; there was no earth,

and no sky overhead,

there was only myself in you."

"Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,

"meeting you here in this way?

For I have sinned, I know full well

and is there heaven and is there hell,

and is this Judgement Day?"

"Nay, those were but dreams"

the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.

There are no such things as fear and sin;

there is no you ... you never have been.

There is nothing at all but me."