truthofgod:

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Being that you’ve answered goddamntoothbrush’s first two steps, deal with the following:

Step three:  How do you feel about the fact that the notion of a soul was borrowed from another religion, namely Hinduism?  The Hindu Ātman is much more elaborate and complex in my honest opinion.  However, I can’t help but notice the convenient similarities.

Step four:  Why subscribe to dualism apart from religious beliefs?  Is it not simpler to employ Occam’s Razor, remove substance dualism, property dualism and/or dualism in general, and draw the simplest conclusion:  we are material beings and as Sartre said, essence precedes existence.

Step five:  If essence does not precede existence, how can you prove that?

For the record, I have serious issues with your second answer to goddamntoothbrush.  You’re implying that the soul is self-evident.  It’s not.