| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (sdcinder,)
Having met a few "old" souls in my life, I would have to disagree with you on the soul issue. If this is it and this is all there really is, then why does "doing whatever you want" destroy so many families, lives, and the well-being of the individual? Thinking that we are nothing more than just another animal on this planet gets us to the point of no one striving to acheive more in their daily, weekly, monthly lifetime. No one striving to be better than they were because "we are just hairy, horny animals" anyway, right? Why try to be anything else? I do believe that religion, in general, gives a person something to strive to attain. A direction in life. Last I checked, animals really couldn't grasp that concept.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
I think we've gone passed the point where religion relevant, if you want to continue to support that form of mind control, please do so by all means. I don't believe we have souls for the same reason I don't believe in flying pink elephants. I like the idea we are all a product a nature and at some point far back in our timeline we had a common ancestor. This separation we're invisaging, the elitism of it all is quite absurd imo. |