[pro610]

***"No,it is a soulless carbohydrate and is going to dieter,s hell"***

Is there whaling and gnashing of teeth and lots of "peanut butter sandwiches in dieters hell? LOL!

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Is there whaling and gnashing of teeth and lots of "peanut butter sandwiches in dieters hell?

No. Whaling has been banned by the International Law of the Sea. For all intents and porpoises.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Although we're joking about it, I reckon I must admit that my remarks about the soul derive from Aristotle. For more on the differences between plant, animal, and human (spiritual) souls from an Aristotelian point of view, see:

http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/psyche.htm

Scroll about 2/3 of the way down to "Degrees of Soul."

Aristotle says the soul is the "form" of the living body. By "form" he does not mean "shape," but "that which makes it what it is as a living thing." It approximately means the "shaper" of the body.

Aristotle was a natural philosopher, not a theologian. From a natural point of view, I suppose you could say the closest thing we've seen to a "soul" is the DNA molecule, since it is the "shaper" of the living body. This is not, of course, a distinctively religious view.