Do animals have a soul?

Do you think animals have a soul/consciousness? My voices told me they must not have it, because then I can’t be tortured after death.They didn’t tell me what relation do these 2 things have, other than saying “It would be a chaos” if they did have a soul.

They’ve also told they don’t care what I did to animals (I may have fed my aunt’s dog a snail once when I was a kid, can’t remember if it was me, my brother, or my cousin who did it; but the dog died some time after that, I don’t know if it was because of him swallowing the snail), but they “care” (not emotionally, but logically) about what I did or would have done to people, probably because they assume or “know” that animals don’t have a consciousness.

My schizophrenia has dug up various memories I didn’t even remember. One thing the inserted thoughts or voices keep saying is that I tortured my cousin. One time I kept the volume of the TV all the way up, because her father was talking and laughing so loud (he was drunk at the time; it’s typical for him, if he gets drunk, to say something he finds funny and then laugh at it, and then repeat that over and over again) I couldn’t hear the TV. I think I was listening to it to escape from my anxiety. She asked if I could turn down the volume and I told I can’t because his father is talking too loud. The voices are saying she maybe tried to sleep (I can’t remember if she told that or not), and if I didn’t let her sleep it was a torture. I don’t know why I was blind to her perspective and didn’t turn down the volume; the voices are saying it could have been either because I was mad at his uncle, or I was obsessed with listening to the TV.

The voices now have a 2 theories why I got this schizophrenia to control me: 1) because I have obsessive ideas, or 2) because I’m stupider than every other person (they call it mystical stupidity), and they’re saying either of them could be a flaw of my soul, which is why I need to be tortured after death forever - otherwise I might reincarnate somewhere else and bother the people/beings there. They’ve also told those beings may have genetically engineered themselves to be psychopathic, or free of compassion, because compassion would limit them - they couldn’t torture someone eternally if they had compassion.
This is not my delusion - it’s just what the voices/fake thoughts have told me.

I believe animals have a soul. I look into their eyes and I can just feel it.

They have consciousness. Don’t know about the soul. Are they different, probably…

All pets go to heaven in my world view. If they don’t I don’t want to go there

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They have consciousness, they think, be it more primitively than us.

As far as a soul, I believe they do, they’re innocent though, not to be guilty of the sins of man.

I know they come back to visit me sometimes, I’ll see them, hear them, feel them.

Yes, I believe that animals have souls.
Heck, I believe that trees have souls!

I believe everything has consciousness but just different levels of it. Even a thermometer has consciousness according to Michio Kaku.

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I like to believe that everything has some level of consciousness and God or watever u may call it is hiding in it.
But idk.
But there’s nothing wrong with believing that it makes me feel less alone and gives more life to life. No one can disprove it either so that’s that.

Of course they do. My bigger worry is whether or not I’m a murderer when I kill ants. They’re so small, killing them is the only option. It’s not like spiders where I can get them in a cup and take them outside.

Yes, my pets are in heaven.

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