What is good for the soul?

[Lemmingwiser]

1. What is good for the soul?

2. Is it important to be good to the soul?

3. Is there a difference between what is good for your own soul and that of others?

4. What is the most soulful experience you had this month?

 

[BirdUp]

1. doing tasks that amount to something meaningful
2. yes
3. no
4. n/a

 

[Leftists=Pedophiles]

Spirit > Soul

 

[The Fuck's Going On Here]

1) Shit which feels meaningful enough to you and improves yourself and your life.
2) Yeah. If you don't, you become one of the effectively dead husks we see either online or IRL who just can't seem to enjoy anything and just depend on drugs, booze, rage, sex or whatever else for momentary euphoria. Not that you can't actually enjoy drugs, booze, rage, sex or whatever; but there's a difference between enjoying a glass of fine 20-year old scotch, and pounding shots of cheap booze till you can't remember your own name.
3) Kinda. General principles remain the same; but different people will respond differently to different things and will need different things for their soul. For example, helping others is good for the soul, but two people might do it for different reasons; one does it because he's a devout christian and feels it gets him closer to God, while the other is an atheist who sees it as simply giving back to the community and making it better.
4) Got nothing in mind currently

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Spirit > Soul

they're not the same?

 

[DumbDude43]

missing some important options in the poll, such as
[x] racism
[x] shitposting funposting
[x] sneed references and baneposting

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

doge

 

[oldTireWater]

Something about crushing your enemies and hearing the lamentations of their women.

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

Those old gay books said Chicken Soup or something

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Being a complete person, you have to exercise your Mind, Body and Soul for that to happen.

Your mind you need to challenge with new thoughts and ideas.

You need to challenge yourself Mentally and Physically, this isn't running a ultra matrithon or being a gym bro it can take many forms including art, writing, making things etc.

Soul you have to do something that inspires you and hopefully others, this is akin to embodying your soul and laying it bare for others to see and understand and critique.

they're not the same?

No your Soul is your core being, i.e. if you strip away all the artifice, all the language, all the trappings of civilisation this is what you could be described as in believing, your Spirit is your Ephemeral self. The two are very intertwined but they are distinct things philisophacly speaking you can describe each on there own but they are interwoven tightly you can't really describe one without the other.

 

[Table Country]

Krabby patties.

 

[FuckedUpDeer]

Some bleach.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Paying the troll toll. If you want the baby boy's soul you've gotta pay the troll toll.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[...]

I like thinking of it more simply: there's the body and the incorporeal mind. If materialistic atheism is right, the incorporeal mind is an "emergent property" of brain activity, which doesn't look good for hope of an afterlife. But if certain religion is right, consciousness comes from the soul or spirit, which can survive death and manifest in a new body in a more real afterlife.

 

[AgendaPoster]

Heroin and other proper opiates, intravenously.
Alternatively, sports.

 

[Fek]

1. What is good for the soul?

Self-realization. Love, though not the kind you get in a Hollywood movie. The kind that brings peace and understanding (what I would argue the term really references anyway).

2. Is it important to be good to the soul?

Yes, though I'd add that I think being "bad" to the soul takes some pretty conscious acts of suffering in this life. There is always something to learn from any moment, no matter how heinous the event granting the lesson. Suffering isn't remotely necessary or "good" for the soul, but it does bring forth growth.

Anyway, being good to the soul is being good to all seen before you. Absolutely important.

3. Is there a difference between what is good for your own soul and that of others?

Not in a meta sense. Self-realization is a universal "good," I'd argue.

Now, if one wants to nitpick about likes/dislikes or personal inclinations, then sure there are things "better" for one than another. I'm not fond of heights, yet some people never feel more alive than when skydiving.

4. What is the most soulful experience you had this month?

Reconciling with an old friend. Properly reconciling. Being open and self-admitting errors made in actions/words. Actual mending of the soul for both parties.

Really, just anything that involves improving one's self through a positive moment with another.

 

[Yezidi Fan Club]

Watching your cat roll around in the grass on a summer day like a goof

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

experiencing nature, everything man made is corrupt. Go commune with the gnomes and bang nymphs bareback

 

[MugolEx]

Is it not obvious?

 

[Lach]

a few things, the obvious being laughter, not taking yourself or life to seriously, although, hypocritically one should also try not to be too much of a nosebone to everything and every one. Don't set your life to other people's expectations you should set it by your preferred direction towards happiness, of course only doing this responsibly.