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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6193213" data-attributes="member: 6678119">Scientific questions can only be scientific if they can be tested; preferably repeatedly to verify the results.  It is not possible, at the moment anyway, to test whether souls exist just like it's not possible to test whether any deities exist in the real world.  We might eventually be able to test those hypotheses, but that's definitely not now, thus asking the question itself would turn into "how can we test this in the first place?"However, souls and deities in D&D are very real, thus it's necessary to discuss the game with that paradigm in mind.  In that sense of things, there are very clear differences between the real world and the fantasy world and as such bringing real world stuff into it does not actually serve a purpose except maybe to frustrate or be pedantic.  Some might even call that trolling.I do have a question for both of you, as well as anyone else reading this: Are you capable of going beyond your own experiences to see what might actually be happening, or at least what someone else might be claiming?  So far various impasses I've seen tend to be caused by people being incapable of understanding something beyond what they themselves have experienced as well as only being able to argue from their own point of view.</blockquote>