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Atheists/agnostics of Lemmy, do you believe in the existence of souls? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you do, then what exactly defines a soul in your view?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'd imagine you're rather unique. I have a hard time imagining atheists believing in something as nebulous as a soul.

EDIT: Please don't downvote OP, if anything this is a more interesting discussion thread than just "No, we're just meat and electricity"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Atheists by and large don't outright reject the possibility of the unknown. They just don't hang their whole lives on it and make up stories to make it less unnerving to contemplate. The fact is we can't know everything, and our collective knowledge as a species probably barely scratches the surface of reality. But we can rule certain specific use cases out on a logical basis.

Almost anything is possible. Likely? Fuck no. But possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries about the downvoting. There's no karma display :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think low voted comments still get pushed to the bottom though, is that not right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I believe that's true on childcomments, but not root comments, as they are sorted by new as default.

But some people choose to sort by top, and some clients probably do that as default. But generally in web UI what I wrote above should be the case :)