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This is a pretty interesting article. I wish your articles could spend a little more time on page one. I don’t think you can’t really ever draw a line between mankind and animals because we evolved from animals. Where could you draw the line? Fact is you can’t. There are many people with Down’s syndrome and other mental problems. There’s a good chance than Neanderthals were smarter than our mentally challenged individuals. So can’t you say the mentally retarded have souls and smart Neanderthals who may have had a greater sense of self don’t. So therefore I don’t think you can ever draw a line from the simplest cells to human being and all other life forms in the universe. (There is probably more intelligent creatures in the universe and you wouldn’t want them to think that they have souls and we don’t becuase of our inferior mental capability.) I think religion will evolve over the next thousand years away from traditional religions to a more realistic spiritualism. I think just about all religious stories are nothing but folk tales and superstition. So where does that leave us once we die? It’s possible that we either lose or retain our individualism and become a collective soul (the drop becomes the ocean). All living consiousness would become one entity. So if you harmed someone you harmed yourself. If you insensitve to others, you were insensitive to yourself. If you helped someone, you helped yourself – the ultimate payback. This isn’t so pleasing for me though. I hope we are able to retain our individualism but can tap into the river of consiousness/knowledge from which we come from-God. But as far as drawing a line as to what has a soul and what doesn’t- I’m nearly sure it can’t be done.
it’s a tough one.
personally i have experienced things that i can’t deny, whether they are enough proof to others, they would probably need to see it from my perspective for it to make any sense, kind of like if we “view-source” this page, it would only make sense to web code geek types like myself… DOH!
so even if there is proof, i guess my point is, each of us must seek out our own understanding of life and the universe, because each perspective is unique, with relevance to the current context.
if we keep trying to throw the criminal on the slaughter table saying “prove it!”, we wont recognise the truth even if its in front of our faces, which i believe it always is…