Tell me what a soul is?

Question: Tell me what a soul is!?

What exactly is the soul, where is it, how is it us!?
I seek to understand this concept as i can not find a theory which is acceptable to my reasoning, which can not be refuted!.
As always I ask this with Metta
(((((May All Beings Be Satisfied)))))
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The term is too poorly defined to be meaningful!.

One may as well ask what a boojum is!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/SoulWww@QuestionHome@Com

the soul is a fantasy concocted by religion to keep control of the massesWww@QuestionHome@Com

Ah the Soul yeah its the human mind type thing that yer brain creates for ya when u starts livin in da womb of yer mammy!.
Sorry I realy dont have a phuckin clue - sorryWww@QuestionHome@Com

a soul to me is a many sided part of you that changes with expierernce!. When you are born your soul is free from knicks and scabs but as you learn your soul becomes cut and sewn rung out to dry and painted with all the colors of the rainbow!. The funny thing is with more expierence your soul becomes beautiful to others and to yourself!. When you follow your heart deadened parts of your soul come to life!. Thats my pov as a 14 year old at least for now,!.!.!. i have no religion because i cant find one thats as beautiful ,Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your soul is your true self!.

A human being within the person that this world has manufactured!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your soul can only be what you interpret it to be!. Its neither here nor there, its not physical, nor can you prove it exists - it can be argued that your soul exists only to be what ever your mind allows it to be - if you question it, does it question your relevance in the world!? If you only let it be and forget its there, does it judge you on ignorance - are you one and the same!? Could it live without you, or does it feed of you and the choices you make!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ahhh - soul! It's a pain in the ar*seWww@QuestionHome@Com

The soul is the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being, that which confers individuality and humanity, often considered to be synonymous with the mind or the self!.
Theologians define the soul as that part of the individual which partakes of divinity and often is considered to survive the death of the body!.
Despite widespread and longstanding belief in the existence of a soul, however, different religions and philosophers have developed a variety of theories as to its nature and its relationship to the body!.
Among ancient peoples, both the Egyptians and the Chinese conceived of a dual soul!. The Egyptian ka (breath) survived death but remained near the body, while the spiritual ba proceeded to the region of the dead!. The Chinese distinguished between a lower, sensitive soul, which disappears with death, and a rational principle, the hun, which survives the grave and is the object of ancestor worship!.
Ancient Greek concepts of the soul varied considerably according to the particular era and philosophical school!. The Epicureans considered the soul to be made up of atoms like the rest of the body!. For the Platonists, the soul was an immaterial and incorporeal substance, akin to the gods yet part of the world of change and becoming!. Aristotle stated the soul was a form inseparable from the body!.
In Christian theology, (St) Augustine spoke of the soul as a “rider” on the body, making clear the split between the material and the immaterial, with the soul representing the “true” person!. However, although body and soul were separate, it was not possible to conceive of a soul without its body!. In the European Middle Ages, (St) Thomas Aquinas returned to the Greek philosophers' concept of the soul as a motivating principle of the body, independent but requiring the substance of the body to make an individual!.
From the Middle Ages onward, the existence and nature of the soul and its relationship to the body continued to be disputed in Western philosophy!. To René Descartes, man was a union of the body and the soul, each a distinct substance acting on the other; the soul was equivalent to the mind!. To Benedict de Spinoza, body and soul formed two aspects of a single reality!. Immanuel Kant concluded that the soul was not demonstrable through reason, although the mind inevitably must reach the conclusion that the soul exists because such a conclusion was necessary for the development of ethics and religion!. To William James at the beginning of the 20th century, the soul as such did not exist at all but was merely a collection of psychic phenomena!.
Just as there have been different concepts of the relation of the soul to the body, there have been numerous ideas about when the soul comes into existence and when and if it dies!. Pythagoras held that the soul was of divine origin and existed before and after death!. Plato and Socrates also accepted the immortality of the soul, while Aristotle considered only part of the soul, the intellect, to have that quality!. Epicurus believed that both body and soul ended at death!. The early Christian philosophers adopted the Greek concept of the soul's immortality and thought of the soul as being created by God and infused into the body at conception!.
In the Hindu religion, each atman (“breath,” or “soul”) is considered to have been created at the beginning of time and imprisoned in an earthly body at birth!. At the death of the body, the atman passes into a new body, its position in the Chain of Being determined by karma, or the cumulative consequences of actions!. The cycle of death and rebirth (samsara) is eternal according to some Hindus but others say it persists only until the soul has attained karmic perfection, thus merging with the Absolute!. Buddhism negates the concept of atman, asserting that any sense of the individual soul or self is illusory!.
The Muslim concept, like that of the Christian, holds that the soul comes into existence at the same time as the body; thereafter, it has a life of its own, its union with the body being a temporary condition!.
So where to from here!? All I know is that each one of us must make that decision on our own!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The "soul" is a figament of the same imagination that brought you the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Jackpot winnings on Pogo Games!.

g-day!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your soul is your inner- self, your ethos!. The reason you are who you are!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

dear sir, do forgive me of my ignorance!.

blind believe of a soul important!?
OR
thorough search our conscience make more sense!?

my conscience is my soul!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Biblically speaking , the soul is the individual , with all that makes up the person!. THUS IT IS SAID , of Adam:

(Genesis 2:7) 7?"And 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!."
*FOOTNOTE:“A living soul [breathing creature]!.” Heb!., lene′phesh chai·yah′; Gr!., ψυχ?ν ζ?σαν (psy·khen′ zo′san, “living soul”); Lat!., a′ni·mam vi·ven′tem

--ANIMALS are also called souls, Please note:

(Genesis 1:20-21) !.?!.?!.And God went on to say: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens!.” 21?And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living **soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind!. And God got to see that [it was] good!.?!.?!.

**FOOTNOTE: “Living soul!.” Heb!., ne′phesh ha·chai·yah′, sing!.; Gr!., ψυχ?ν ζ?ων (psy·khen′ [sing!.] zoi′on [pl!.], “soul of living ones”)!.
Or, “tame animal!.” Heb!., behe·mah′, sing!. Compare Job 40:15 ftn!.
Or, “and living creature!.” Heb!., wecha·yethoh′!. also “living creature” in vs 28!.

--also according to the Bible the soul, dies, just as the person dies, for it is indeed the person

(Ezekiel 18:3-4) !.?!.?!.!. 4?Look! All the souls—to me they belong!. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong!. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die!.

Human beings(souls) and animal beings(souls, have the same eventuality as far as death is concerned, (aside from any hope for living again):

(Ecclesiastes 3:19-20) !.?!.?!.For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality!. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity!. 20?All are going to one place!. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust!."

--NOW THERE ARE other concepts for the idea of soul:

FROM ALLEXPERTS!.COM ENCYCLOPEDIA:

Soul

"The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is a self-aware ethereal substance particular to a unique living being!. In these traditions the soul is thought to incorporate the inner essence of each living being, and to be the true basis for sentience!. In distinction to spirit which may or may not be eternal, souls are usually (but not always as explained below) considered to be immortal and to pre-exist their incarnation in flesh!.

The concept of the soul has strong links with notions of an afterlife, but opinions may vary wildly, even within a given religion, as to what may happen to the soul after the death of the body!.
-- Many within these religions and philosophies see the soul as immaterial, while others consider it to possibly have a material component, and some have even tried to establish the mass (weight) of the soul!."

THEIR IS an excellent breakdown at length of what some philosophers, sciences & religions bring out as to their beleif of what the soul is:

@http://en!.allexperts!.com/e/s/so/soul!.htmWww@QuestionHome@Com

some things I have thought of, although you need not believe it
The soul, I think, (a Greek sort of idea if you ask me) is a way of explaining the self!.
The soul cannot be anyone else but who it is
The soul can see without the physical eyes being open!.

even if you do not know what is a soul, thinking about it is a good thing rather than watching TV!. It is a pity that we do not know the souls of others, or that we are suspicious of their motives!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They say man and all living creatures came from nonliving things!. Strange that life came that way indeed and yet the universe must have had an intelligent voice though it was unheard back then!. Where is it now!? Is it in the spoken words of man or the sounds of living creatures that utter the essence of life!. Is it in there!? I think not!.

I think it remains unheard in each of us that only we can hear in ourselves, in our minds!. It is borne in us even as we were conceived and breathed life into at birth from the source that existed before life itself existed!. In time that which was conscious for us at our first breath and thought gives way to who we are as infants and learn anew the world around us!. It is part of existence that cannot be seen, weighed or measured by man!. Yet we know its substance is true and it is in each one of us for if we deny it then we are denying our very essence of who we are!. This is the very essence of life that we exist as unseen in the body of man!. What we call the soul!.

Below is an earlier link of mine about the soul!. Peace!. Later!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hello,

(ANS) There is NO! SUCH THING AS A SOUL!! it does not exist!.

**The notion of a soul is just a "human construct", an abstraction or abstract idea, it has no basis in reality!. You cannot taste, touch, see or smell a soul!.

**Other examples of human constructs are:- God, Religion, Money, Time, Enlightenment, etc

**The notion of a soul is used to try (attempt) to define or describe something that does not exist!. To define something that is intangible!. The notion of a soul brings the illusion of comfort to some people!.

Kind Regards IvanWww@QuestionHome@Com

Its your spirit and the essence of YOU

–noun 1!. the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part!.
2!. the spiritual part of humans regarded in its moral aspect, or as believed to survive death and be subject to happiness or misery in a life to come: arguing the immortality of the soul!.
3!. the disembodied spirit of a deceased person: He feared the soul of the deceased would haunt him!.
4!. the emotional part of human nature; the seat of the feelings or sentiments!.
5!. a human being; person!.
6!. high-mindedness; noble warmth of feeling, spirit or courage, etc!.
7!. the animating principle; the essential element or part of something!.
8!. the inspirer or moving spirit of some action, movement, etc!.
9!. the embodiment of some quality: He was the very soul of tact!.
10!. (initial capital letter) Christian Science!. God; the divine source of all identity and individuality!.
11!. shared ethnic awareness and pride among black people, esp!. black Americans!.
12!. deeply felt emotion, as conveyed or expressed by a performer or artist!.
13!. soul music!.
–adjective 14!. of, characteristic of, or for black Americans or their culture: soul newspapers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

try to experience and find out (many techniques in buddhism)!.!.!. alle else is playing intellectually with beliefs, it will never satisfy you!.
by the way, it is your "soul" who wants to find itself by searching for itself!. that what you are looking for is already where you are looking from!.Www@QuestionHome@Com