Poll:Can all the members of a species,.....

:confuzd: i don't see how this could not be religious or philosophy based if the question is about a "spiritual soul"?



vaughn

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Thanks Adam for understanding. It's easy to take certain aspects of one beliefs very personally and sometimes folks can interpret disagreement with their beliefs as a de facto attack on their belief system.

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As always, you have my full support! :thumbsup: :salute:

-adam

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Originally Posted by recycling goddess

i am surprised that this poll/thread hasn't been closed down though as anytime in the past that spiritual issues have been discussed - the admins have closed it. :grabbed:

but i'm glad i got to vote before it was closed! ;)

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It's my opinion and experience that the admins do a decent job of balancing this....

I debated whether or not to allow posting in this poll......I figured I better let posts so that if people had questions about the poll they could try to get some clarification.

Hoepfully there will be no fighting in this thread. That is not my intention...I just want a survey.

After the survey is complete I will reveal my source of the poll and allow those who are interested in reading the source more closely the opportunity to do so......I might require a PM for this....havent decided.....I'm not trying to make the admins job overly difficult.

I would get scientific in my interpretation here. Take, for example, a herd of horses. Each horse has its rank in the herd, and is an individual, yet they move and act as a body of one. You could say there's a "soul" to the herd, a unifying energy that they all share; horses are definately telepathic, as are most organisms (if they allow themselves to be!) and you cannot disturb one member of a close herd without distressing the others or at least drawing their attention.
Define "soul."

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I would get scientific in my interpretation here. Take, for example, a herd of horses. Each horse has its rank in the herd, and is an individual, yet they move and act as a body of one. You could say there's a "soul" to the herd, a unifying energy that they all share; horses are definately telepathic, as are most organisms (if they allow themselves to be!) and you cannot disturb one member of a close herd without distressing the others or at least drawing their attention.
Define "soul."

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The definition you want to apply to the question is up to the reader. I know there are methodological problems to this.....think of it as more of a descriptive, quasi-scientific poll rather than a purely scientific poll.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

horses are definately telepathic, as are most organisms (if they allow themselves to be!)

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ROCK ON! :pinkele:

-adam

Find the idea of a soul as something anyone can define or try to put a finger on as a waste of thought.

i find that such a sad statement :(

I have to say no, everything has a seperate "soul" if you believe in that kind of stuff. Most everyone has a different opinion or outlook on something. Saying multiple organisms share a soul would be unrealistic in the way that not everyone of those organisms are believing and have the same values of a said topic.
Hope this makes sense

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

horses are definately telepathic, as are most organisms

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I agree. Snakes are too.....I think. I don't talk to my snakes much but I know when I hold them they know what I'm thinking "don't bite me" for example and being rebelious like they are, they take a snap at you