Poll: Does a Planet have a Soul?
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someone said that you lose weight when you die... i don't remember how much though...Denamic said:
But plants and stuff aren't really part of the planet; they're just growing on top of it. The earth itself is just a big ball of dirt with a chewy centre. It might be full of relatively tiny living organisms, but the dirt itself isn't really alive.reg42 said:
And how is that in any way evidence for a soul?Orcus_35 said:
OT: What Denamic said. Until evidence is provided and a definition is given to these so called "souls" I'm just going to go with a big fat fucking no.
zauxz said:
Hell, we don't need progress. We can live just like the simpler folk back medieval times where you were lucky if you got past 30 and horses were considered modern means of transportation.
I heard about that. Apparently, some doctors weighed people with extremely sensitive equipment right before and right after they died, and they were always left with a difference of about 21 grams, so they concluded it must be a 'soul'. I don't know if it really was the soul or not, but until we have a better explanation it'll have to do.Orcus_35 said:
No, no it doesn't.
The planet is a molten ball of liquid rock floating in a cold empty space with a crust of solid matter on the surface. Picture an ice cube as it freezes from the outside in. Some of this surface includes organic material, and some of that organic material has been organized in a way which we classify as "alive". Some of those organized clumps of organic matter which we consider to be alive have the capicity for self-awareness. Many of us state that the last group I mentioned possess souls.
Wiccans (i.e. "stupid women who think Celts worshipped uteri, rather than participating in female human sacrifice") and Hindus (i.e. "stupid people who don't realize that their entire religious system is simply an obsolete justification for the caste system") will tell you that EVERYTHING that is capable of celluar reproduction has a soul. Some of them claim the Earth does, too, despite it failing to meet their own simple litmus test. I submit that all people EXCEPT those who make this assertion have souls.
The planet is a molten ball of liquid rock floating in a cold empty space with a crust of solid matter on the surface. Picture an ice cube as it freezes from the outside in. Some of this surface includes organic material, and some of that organic material has been organized in a way which we classify as "alive". Some of those organized clumps of organic matter which we consider to be alive have the capicity for self-awareness. Many of us state that the last group I mentioned possess souls.
Wiccans (i.e. "stupid women who think Celts worshipped uteri, rather than participating in female human sacrifice") and Hindus (i.e. "stupid people who don't realize that their entire religious system is simply an obsolete justification for the caste system") will tell you that EVERYTHING that is capable of celluar reproduction has a soul. Some of them claim the Earth does, too, despite it failing to meet their own simple litmus test. I submit that all people EXCEPT those who make this assertion have souls.
what you said made me think of that:lasherman said:
http://hubblecollection.com/images/fender-bender.jpg
and of the futurama episode where bender speaks to another universe...
No, because the apple itself relies on the tree to provide nutrients. If the tree died, so would all the apples. However, a bunch of bugs can live on the dead tree itself, just like humans (or all living things, really), do with the earth. Living things aren't connected to the planet, and we don't take sustenance from it; We simple live on top of it, consuming other living things that also live on top of it.reg42 said:
You don't find something "out of place" then conclude something ridiculous is the cause of it. That's like finding your keys were not where you remembered them to be and concluded that pink fairies moved them there.lasherman said:
looks like there's a bunch of people saying no without saying why... looks like some peeps don't have opinion and just answer Polls...
I'm not really talking about humans. Plants grow from the earth. The soil needs nutrients in order to sustain said plants. When the soil gets used enough it's useless and, basically, "dead". In the previous metaphor I was considering the plants as the apples, the earth as the tree, and I guess that would make animals as the bugs.lasherman said:
This question does not consider the [possibility] that nothing has a soul.
EDIT: [Fact > Possibility]
EDIT: [Fact > Possibility]
A long time ago someone looked at some bones. Then he turned around and he looked at the animals around him. He saw they were very different. He had the absolutely ridiculous thought that one group of animals became the other, thus he gave us the science of evolution.AndyFromMonday said:
In the words of Haldane [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane], father of population genetics [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_genetics]; "Theories have four stages of acceptance. i) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view, iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; iv) I always said so."
[CITATION NEEDED]David Bray said: