The Mind, Body, or Soul?

I voted "soul" for the simple reason that the body and mind can change. But the soul, the innermost feelings, your very being, is not so easily changed. It's eternal.

 

I also voted soul. When you die your body will decay, with time your mind may fade but the soul is eternal, is forever.

However in a living breathing person I believe balance and peace in all three aspects is the best way to be.

 

Soul, by far. While I do value the mind to a rather high degree, it is limited to our current lifetime. The soul, however, exists beyond what we can even imagine. In my beliefs it carries through multiple lifetimes and, in the end, will be all that we have left. Bodies and minds are expendable and limited. Souls are eternal.

 

If it exists, the soul. Plus, the way souls are commonly depicted in media, they appear to have some semblance of "mind" or even a spectral "body" to them ... I mean, if you're going to believe in a fantasy I say believe in the most promising fantasy of them all.

 

If there is a soul, it is indisputably the most important. The other two are only tools for the soul to express itself in the physical world.

Barring that though, the mind, if it's separate from the body (and some evidence suggests it is not so discrete as we'd think) is second. You are still you in a crippled body. But without a mind you're a lump of meat.

 

I don't believe in the concept of a soul and I don't like my body at all, so...yeah. I value my thoughts the most.

 

I wanted to pick 'body' for many reasons

However, I voted for 'mind'. MAXED intelligence!? I would love to be super intelligent! I could solve a lot of problems in this world and many people would be happier. Plus I could influence people for what I believe to be the greater good and that influence would last for a loooong time after my death. Maybe I could even discover a way to become godlike and cheat death

I personally don't believe in souls, so it doesn't fit into my plans. Perhaps I misunderstood the question XD

 

I don't believe in the soul, so I went for the mind. The brain is what makes the body work and ideas are what make the world what if is.

 

Mind. I value my intelligence more than my appearance, and I'm not sure whether to believe in the concept of souls.

 

I voted body because the way my body feels affects my state of mind so much. When I am in shape, I have more energy and feel powerful. I don't understand what a soul is, but I know that the way I physically feel greatly affects my mental state.

 

I voted for mind because I don't know if souls exist or not. It would be important to stay intelligent throughout one's life. The thought of ever having dementia scares me.

 

For me The soul, I don't know if it is my minds coping mechanism for death but I believe in it. that our energy reaches greater than our life span, perhaps not remaining in the familiar form we are in now.. I find comfort in the science of "we are made up of the universe", for ultimately a heart stopping beating just seems to feeble for it to end our energy, but again this could just be my brain trying to cope. I'm just going to try and make the most of now!

 

I don't know that I believe in a soul. So, mind, I suppose.

 

I chose mind because 1, the soul doesn't exist so that can't be the answer, and 2 because, while the mind and body are essentially the same because the mind is part of the body, I think that the brain is definitely one of if not the most important part of the human body. Of course, other parts are needed, but the brain is definitely important.

 

All three facets are necessary for balance in a human being, but some points can be made.

If your mind was the most intelligent in the world, that does not mean your life would have purpose. If you only were spirited, yet put no mental or physical effort in, your feelings - regardless of how deep - would be useless. If your body were perfect to the neglect of the mind or soul, what is the point of that?

I do believe in the soul, but the soul doesn't stand alone as a separate entity. It is intrinsically a part of you as your mind or body is. It is more than just "feelings," as most of our emotions and personalities are resultant from our brains (and thus mind).

Perhaps, though, it is the deepest essence of who we are. And in this regard, though the mind and body are still crucial, I think the soul is the most important.

 

While I think the mind and soul are far more important in other ways, I think if you've reached your full potential, and you still have some life left to go, your body is the not important because it is via your body that you are able to communicate and do the actions that you feel are important for helping others or whatever else you want to accomplish. Once you have vast knowledge and wisdom, what good is it (beyond feeling personally more complete) if you can't use it in some way? So I guess I wouldn't say the body is the most significant, but rather the most crucial for the mind and the body.