For those who believe in souls, when do people get them?

[ZombieHorde]

At what point does a person get a soul?

Conception? Birth? Baptism? When?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Kindergarten.

[ZombieHorde]

4. So, around 5-years-old, or when a person actually attends a class labled "kindergarten?" nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. You have to go to kindergarten.

They hand out souls along with the fingerpaint sets.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. during an unprotected sex act...

...wait, that's sores.:blush:

[lapfog_1]

3. Apparently, it's not at birth, given the number of soulless repukes running around, -n/t

[sasha031]

6. ...

:thumbsup:

[tridim]

5. When you learn to play jazz or blues guitar.

[rrneck]

18. +1. nt

[Lint Head]

7. It's a choice. Wait, no you're born with one?

I think you have to eat soul food then write your name backwards on the head of a pin with a magic marker.

[rurallib]

8. when they leave the republican party and corporatism

[Qutzupalotl]

10. Birth. n/t

[bananas]

11. You don't get a soul, you are a soul.

Paraphrasing cs lewis.

[ZombieHorde]

12. That is definately a different way of looking at it.

Does the soul exist at conception then?

[Qutzupalotl]

14. Before.

If the soul is really eternal, it exists both before and after the body.

A number of people, myself included, believe the soul enters the body at birth, with the first breath; it's like switching on the power of a great machine. Then you have a complete "person". In that interval from birth to death, the soul is tied to the body, but before and after that period, it is not tied to a body. So I'd say technically the soul "exists" at conception, but it's not tied to the zygote at that point.

[ZombieHorde]

15. I think I understand. Thanks for the explanation. nt

[bananas]

21. Joseph Campbell on Eternity

From an interview with Bill Moyers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhgbUbPSE2Y

[bananas]

20. Is it a new concept for you?

CS Lewis wasn't the first person to come up with that.

[ZombieHorde]

22. I was raised Roman Catholic. I was taught the soul enters the body at conception.

The RCC is not a very spiritual religion.

[Qutzupalotl]

13. True.

It might be better to say you "get" a body.

I think of the soul as preceding birth and possibly existing eternally. But the OP asked when a "person" gets a soul, so I answered at birth, since I define a person as having both body and soul. But I like your answer better because it "breaks the rules" and shows the question in a new light.

[backscatter712]

16. Am I the only one who doesn't believe in a supernatural soul that persists after death?

Sorry, but the more I see the evidence - from observations of stroke patients to MRI experiments, the more I have to conclude that the mind is entirely physical - it's "software" in the hardware known as our information processing organ, the brain.

[ZombieHorde]

17. I don't believe in souls, but I wanted to hear about how they worked from those who do believe.

Most of the replies are from those who also don't believe in souls; I think.

[rrneck]

19. Whenever you want it. nt

[frogmarch]

23. When we were still fish

or before.

But that's just a guess.

[edhopper]

24. Upon the first listen

of a James Brown record.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

25. Only people that have been hit by lightning have souls

I have never been hit by lightning although I have done many things that should have gotten me hit.




Now, Life-sparks, that is a totally different deal. Life-sparks form from the interaction of the fire from Muspelheim and the ice from Niflheim.
That creates life Sparks which then are called to those soon-to-be born when they are ready for them. For that reason, no-one can know when it will happen or even if it will happen for any one being (Repugs are proof that not all have Life-sparks). Life-sparks are also recyclable with old Life-sparks inserting themselves into the soon-to-be born so as to continue their own evolution.

[Taverner]

26. You get a soul when the Catholic Church deems you get one

remember, in the first few hundred years of the ONE....TRUE.....CHURCH.... Women did not have souls

[KittyWampus]

27. Souls are simply reflections off the One Thing. As are our personalities and our bodies.

So they exist when conditions arise that favor their manifestation.