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I find my answer to this question in my belief in God. What happens to the soul during transportation? If this technology were to exist, I would defer the quest

I find my answer to this question in my belief in God. What happens to the soul during transportation? If this technology were to exist, I would defer the question to The Church. I know that region isn’t the answer that will satisfy most of HN, but it is one that would be mainstream and given by hundreds of millions or billions of people.

orionblastar 5y ago
What is a soul but a pattern of energy? A pattern that the transporter duplicates. SO in the case of two Rikers, both would have a soul or would they share a soul?
- irl_chad 5y ago
  Only God creates souls. I think the idea of two bodies sharing a soul is plausible. But I’m not a canon scholar.
  - quonn 5y ago
    Only God creates souls in Christianity.
didgeoridoo 5y ago
“And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever, leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair?” ~ Sister Miriam Godwinson, “We Must Dissent”
taneq 5y ago
I guess they're a well established source of statements to be accepted as fact 'on faith' without further examination.
inopinatus 5y ago
The trouble with belief is that it doesn’t really provide answers, more a promise to trust that some higher power has the answers. The church, incidentally, is not a higher power. It’s a just a bunch of priests, and you can become one yourself if you like. Churches don’t have answers, and what’s more, they discourage better questions.
- fuzzfactor 5y ago
  There can be some ethical considerations where an all-knowing higher power (especially one offering a generous afterlife program) could deliver solutions which could never be achieved in life (as we know it). Now for the truly faithful Trekkies maybe they rely on philosophy according to W.W.K.D.? https://mixedtees.com/star-trek-wwkd https://mixedtees.com/star-trek-wwkd
  - inopinatus 5y ago
    That doesn't load for me but the general idea of What Would Khan Do is a great one, thanks.

orionblastar 5y ago

What is a soul but a pattern of energy? A pattern that the transporter duplicates. SO in the case of two Rikers, both would have a soul or would they share a soul?

irl_chad 5y ago
Only God creates souls. I think the idea of two bodies sharing a soul is plausible. But I’m not a canon scholar.
- quonn 5y ago
  Only God creates souls in Christianity.

didgeoridoo 5y ago

“And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever, leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair?” ~ Sister Miriam Godwinson, “We Must Dissent”

taneq 5y ago

I guess they're a well established source of statements to be accepted as fact 'on faith' without further examination.

inopinatus 5y ago

The trouble with belief is that it doesn’t really provide answers, more a promise to trust that some higher power has the answers. The church, incidentally, is not a higher power. It’s a just a bunch of priests, and you can become one yourself if you like. Churches don’t have answers, and what’s more, they discourage better questions.

fuzzfactor 5y ago
There can be some ethical considerations where an all-knowing higher power (especially one offering a generous afterlife program) could deliver solutions which could never be achieved in life (as we know it). Now for the truly faithful Trekkies maybe they rely on philosophy according to W.W.K.D.? https://mixedtees.com/star-trek-wwkd https://mixedtees.com/star-trek-wwkd
- inopinatus 5y ago
  That doesn't load for me but the general idea of What Would Khan Do is a great one, thanks.