Poll: Does a Planet have a Soul?

[PrimoThePro]

Though I believe that every person has a soul, I doubt that planets do. Breathing? No. Thinking? No. Living? No. No soul, m'afraid.

 

[Paksenarrion]

I would guess no: massive, planetary supercomputers do not have souls. Living organisms can live on them, but so far, the answer is 42.

 

[Gilhelmi]

What is a human but a collection of cells that join together as one organism, so the ecosystem is a collection of "cells" or animals and plant life that in a perfect existence work in harmony with one another.

 

[nick_knack]

Do you honestly think that technology is progress? Our society IS stagnant because of all of this technology. We're not evolving, we're creating more and more complex systems in place that make lives meaningless and will inevitably lead to our destruction. Sometimes, Prometheus needs to be chained. We should be focusing on things that will help enlighten us and give us wisdom, not on shiny new gadgets. What's the point of living past thirty if you're leading shitty, unhappy lives that consist of moving from one gadget to the next? And I say the same thing about the planet having a soul as people and living things having a soul: We all have energies inside us that is constantly recycled as we live and die. Dying stars gave us life, as we die we provide phosphates and energy into the ground around us. The soul is but a part of the cycle, and it's great if we give that meaning.

Do you honestly think there can be progress without technology? Technological progress drives progress in all other regards. This is illustrated perfectly with the nuclear bomb. All throughout history opposing nations and groups have made war at the drop of a hat. Now, for the first time ever, two groups who were opposed to each other in every way, managed to show enough maturity and restraint to not fight, because they were faced with the prospect of annihilation. If that isn't progress, I don't know what is.

Who are you to call someone else's existence shitty and unhappy? Seems more than a little presumptuous.

Also: We need to focus? We? The human race is a collection of individuals. "We" cannot focus on anything.

I quoted someone else here but I deleted it. Oops. Sorry to that person.

 

[RJ Dalton]

Define "soul."

 

[Hawgh]

Well, there's currently(and there never will be, unless something somewhere is playing one helluva elaborate joke on the universe) no way to verify the existence of otherworldly entities such as souls. So I'm going with no.

 

[ninjajoeman]

my definition of a soul is a lifeform that creates a fake form of its body that is more outside of its body and it is what makes it itself not this HEART or BRAIN thing...I would have to say manoes or possibly not

 

[gim73]

If it did have a soul I would be forced to find some way to turn that into energy and sell to people. Shinra electric power company ftw!

Lifestreams aside, no the planet has no soul. Animals don't have souls either. No souls in plants, water or anything else. A soul is a silly invention by people who are afraid of oblivion.

 

[Marik2]

Well I'm not really sure if the earth has a soul, but that doesn't mean that we can treat it like crap. The earth is our home and therefore we should take care of it. If we don't take care of our home soon we won't have anything left to call a home. That's all I gotta say.

 

[Yoshemo]

It doesn't have a soul. But it does have a heart I can turn to the darkness >:3

 

[Bailos]

I'm not sure if I'm surprised at the general denial of a soul. I'm not saying that there factual is a soul, I just for some reason thought that many of you would think something along those lines. Joke's on me, I suppose.

As for the Earth, I do believe it has a soul, as well as I think all things have souls. I suppose I'm just that sort of spiritualistic sap.

And I have a genuine question. I noticed a few of you mentioning the inner layers of the Earth, the mantle and core and molten damnnat-I mean metals. What I want to know it how we "know" that is what's under the Earth's crust, which is some 35 kilometer's deep I believe.

 

[lSHaDoW-FoXl]

I don't believe souls even exist, but I do believe that the planet is a working body.

 

[internetzealot1]

No, fuck that.
Also, we should strip the world of all its resources and GTFO ASAP. Its only a matter of time until something happens that will either force us to move or die.

 

[Odd Water]

I've always been told there is no such thing as a stupid question if you really seek the answer, but stuff like this makes me 'face palm for humanity'

 

[Talvrae]

Does souls even exist seriously

 

[Tanfastic]

A planet is made of rocks and other earthy materials, they don't have souls. A planet is made up of things with souls on its crust like animals and plants (May have souls... Dunno)

 

[zehydra]

Well, technically, a planet isn't alive, so I doubt it. It's covered in crawling, growing, walking living things, but so is my bathtub and IT doesn't have a soul.

Or so you assume.

 

[Caligulove]

Nope.

Though some people may think otherwise about nature and things, theres nothing alive or soulful about the planet. Its a bunch of matter that spontaneously came together around a sun in such high frequency that it just happened to be terrestrial based on the orbits of matter caught in the gravitational pull of said star.

Nothing more.