what is the real meaning of soul?
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soul    (sl) KEY  \n\nNOUN: \n\nThe animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. \nThe spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. \nThe disembodied spirit of a dead human. \nA human: "the homes of some nine hundred souls" (Garrison Keillor). \nThe central or integral part; the vital core: "It saddens me that this network ... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news" (Marvin Kalb). \nA person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion. \nA person's emotional or moral nature: "An actor is ... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not" (Alec Guinness). \nA sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music. \nA strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist. \nSoul music.
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my soul, which makes me, me!
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Wrong,  flesh is flesh and dies, spirit is spirit and lives on.  There is a hell, the soul is what will be tormented and you will feel it.
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There is no meaning to soul according to science. But by putting things together we can deduce that to be our inner thought.
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A physical body acts as an anchor for the soul.
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Quantum mechanics is a model for understanding and predicting subatomic phenomena.  It has little use in our macro world of human dimensions.\n\nI believe the soul is in the intricate workings of the developed brain, which comes from the DNA instructions which include the development of the pre-frontal lobe, but do those instructions themselves, unacted on, without having built a brain, constitute a soul?
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So many people say somany things but it hardly matters if we know the truth, AS u have parents in the similar way God is the universal father of all souls, the live force energy inside ur body is u, when u leave this body this body is treated as dead, when u r inside this body its u doing everything, thinking, seeing eating..etc u look thru this eyes, think with ur mind etc. so u r a soul not this body, this is ur real identity, And God is father of all souls, he is also called as supreme soul(Param athma). When we die we won't go anywhere we again take birth here only. not as animals or anything else other than humanbeings. U only asked where do we go...when we die that means u also know u dont die, u go somewhere, u r a soul, but u forgot ur identity so u put the question with answer in it, It proves soul doesn't die.
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Souls have not been scientifically proven to exist. Therefore, no one knows, since souls are theoretical only.
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The soul is the whole person. Psm.7:2;\nThe spirit or life force is from God, Num.16:22; Isa.42:5;\nJames 2:26; It returns to God Eccl.12:7; Psm.104:29,30; If his spirit comes forth they are created from the dust and he renews the face of the earth. Psm.115:15-17[Death is silent]; Psm.146:3,4[there is no thought in death];\n\nThe soul is created, the soul is born, the soul is resurrected. The soul is the whole person.\n\nThe soul is the whole animal. Eccl.3:19-21;
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Sorry to say this but the soul is like fire it has no weight it has not depth it is just like it dose not exist. but it dose it tells us what are plzce is in life and helps us by giulding us to are morals.
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They say animals dont got no soul but theyre conscious aint they? Its kind of separated, the study of science and religion I mean. So the soul is in religion and the consciousness is in science. I guess its coz you cant really study the soul scientifically, its up to you to believe in it and most people do. It is almost a fact that we have souls right?
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Soul is an hipotetical part of your being usually associated to spirituality or religion. \n\nIt goes go where each religion says. \n\nUsing phisycs laws; Nothing is created nothing is lost, everything is transformed. Then, following science, your soul (*) will not disapear but changed into something/assimilated/dissipated
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How do you know you don't have a soul? Maybe you are just afraid to connect with it for some reason.\nDo some "soul searching" if you have wants, needs, likes, and a longing- you have a soul that's talking to you. Just listen to it. Sound like your ignoring it. The center of your being is your soul- however to want to interpret it.
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I Am the Soul that inhabits a human body. I am made of the energy of God. While in the body I use the physical sense but I am also able to use other senses. How is it when you think of a song in your head you can actually hear it and not be using your physical ears? How is it you can picture a yellow bus in your head and not be using your physical eyes? How is it you can walk into a room where someone is angry and feel it before actually physically finding out? These are extra senses that can be developed into amazing gifts, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience. Any way I believe that these abilities can be achieved when one lives as the Soul instead of living as the body that has a soul.\nLove & Light
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A "soul" is a life, with no implication regarding some immortal otherwordly entity. Each deceased life is in Jehovah God's remembrance (with the potential for future resurrection), but the dead do not exist anywhere but memories until and unless the life is resurrected.\n\n(Ezekiel 18:4) The soul that is sinning - it itself will die.\n\n(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all\n\n(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]\n\n(Genesis 2:17) But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”\n\n(Genesis 17:14) And an uncircumcised male who will not get the flesh of his foreskin circumcised, even that soul must be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”\n\n(Judges 16:30) And Samson proceeded to say: “Let my soul die with the Philistines.” Then he bent himself with power, and the house went falling upon the axis lords and upon all the people that were in it, so that the dead that he put to death in his own death came to be more than those he had put to death during his lifetime.\n\n(Job 33:22) And his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to those inflicting death.\n\n(Psalm 78:50) He did not hold back their soul from death itself; And their life he handed over even to the pestilence.\n\n(Isaiah 53:12) he poured out his soul to the very death\n\n(Acts 3:23) Indeed, any soul that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people.’\n\n(Revelation 16:3) And the second one poured out his bowl into the sea. And it became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul died, yes, the things in the sea.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_08.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19970515/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050501/article_02.htm
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I've heard different people say what their bodies looked like during out of body experiences. The people I've talked to just said that it looked like them, only dead. I've heard of others saying their body was just a glowing mass and they couldn't really see it\n\nAs for what the soul looks like, The soul is not of this realm, and so it isn't bound to concepts of looks. But when it needs to manifest itself, it looks as it once did.
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The Soul According to the Bible:\n\nThe Hebrew word translated “soul” is ne´phesh, and it occurs 754 times in the Hebrew Scriptures. What does ne´phesh mean? According to The Dictionary of Bible and Religion, it “usually refers to the entire living being, to the whole individual.” This is borne out by the Bible’s description of the soul at Genesis 2:7: “Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” Note that the first man “came to be” a soul. That is to say, Adam did not have a soul; he was a soul—just as someone who becomes a doctor is a doctor. The word “soul,” then, here describes the whole person.\n\nThe word translated “soul” (psy·khe´) appears more than a hundred times in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Like ne´phesh this word often refers to the whole person. For example, consider the following statements: “My soul is troubled.” (John 12:27) “Fear began to fall upon every soul.” (Acts 2:43) “Let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities.” (Romans 13:1) “Speak consolingly to the depressed souls.” (1 Thessalonians 5:14) “A few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water.” (1 Peter 3:20) Clearly, psy·khe´, like ne´phesh, refers to the whole person. According to scholar Nigel Turner, this word “signifies what is characteristically human, the self, the material body having God’s rûah [spirit] breathed into it. . . . The emphasis is on the whole self.”\n\nin the Bible the word “soul” applies not only to humans but also to animals. For example, in describing the creation of sea creatures, Genesis 1:20 says that God commanded: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls.” And on the next creative day, God said: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to its kind.”—Genesis 1:24; compare Numbers 31:28.\n\n, the word “soul” as used in the Bible refers to a person or an animal or to the life that a person or an animal enjoys. (See box above.) The Bible’s definition of the soul is simple, consistent, and unencumbered by the complicated philosophies and superstitions of men. That being the case, the urgent question that must be asked is, According to the Bible, what happens to the soul at death?\n\nThe Dead Are Unconscious:\n\nThe condition of the dead is made clear at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, where we read: “The dead know nothing . . . There is no pursuit, no plan, no knowledge or intelligence, within the grave.” (Moffatt) Death, therefore, is a state of nonexistence. The psalmist wrote that when a person dies, “he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” (Psalm 146:4) The dead are unconscious, inactive.\n\n When pronouncing sentence upon Adam, God stated: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) Before God formed him from the dust of the ground and gave him life, Adam did not exist. When he died, he returned to that state. His punishment was death—not a transfer to another realm. What, then, happened to his soul? Since in the Bible the word “soul” often simply refers to a person, when we say that Adam died, we are saying that the soul named Adam died. This might sound unusual to a person who believes in the immortality of the soul. However, the Bible states: “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” (Ezekiel 18:4) Leviticus 21:1 speaks of “a deceased soul” (a “corpse,” The Jerusalem Bible). And Nazirites were told not to come near “any dead soul” (“a dead body,” Lamsa).—Numbers