Wednesday, May 6, 2020
John Hume s Bundle View Of The Soul - 1241 Words
I grew up with a Catholic family and went to church every Sunday and I was taught everyone had a soul and it was the basis for every human being. The soul is what makes someone a person and itââ¬â¢s what separates us from non-living beings. As I grew up, I started to be less religious and started believing in science and factual based knowledge yet I still always believed in the soul. When you grow up your whole life being told a certain thing itââ¬â¢s hard to shake the idea of it not being true. It wasnââ¬â¢t until we started to talk about the different views of the self that I started to think maybe the soul isnââ¬â¢t what makes a person a person. It canââ¬â¢t be seen, it canââ¬â¢t be touched and we canââ¬â¢t tell if anyone even has a soul. There is no evidenceâ⬠¦show more contentâ⬠¦For one, that God created the Earth and all living things on Earth. I believe in facts and evidence and when I started to learn about the big bang theory, I questioned my Ca tholic upbringing. One thing I never really questioned or thought about being false was the soul topic. I did question if there was a heaven for our souls to travel to when we died but I never thought for once that the soul didnââ¬â¢t exist and that it wasnââ¬â¢t what made me a person. I thought my soul was my personality and my mind and it was what made me who I am. When we started to go over the different views of what the self was, for the first time I started to think that maybe I have been wrong all along and the soul isnââ¬â¢t what makes me or anyone else a person. For the first time I started to see flaws in the soul view. For one, you canââ¬â¢t see a soul, you canââ¬â¢t touch it, and you canââ¬â¢t feel, taste or smell it. A soul isnââ¬â¢t detected with the basic senses so how do we even know itââ¬â¢s there? I always answered this with my belief in the soul. People canââ¬â¢t do any of those things with God and they still believe in Him so just becau se thereââ¬â¢s no way of knowing if the soul exists it doesnââ¬â¢t mean it doesnââ¬â¢t exist. Then, however, we started talking about what if everyoneââ¬â¢s soul is changing and every day you have a new soul. I actually never thought of this myself and I couldnââ¬â¢t come up with any reasonable response. At this point I started to wonder if my soul is changing every second then what makes me who I
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