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This sort of thing happens to me when I have too much work and too little time to do it in. I was sitting in my last Chinese poetry class and was suddenly in a state of panic over whether or not humans have souls.
I was thinking about reincarnation, see. And then I was thinking about the oft-argued fact that reincarnation isn't logical considering the exponential population growth throughout history. But I really like the idea of reincarnation, see, so I was trying to think of a way to make it somehow feasible anyway, and that was when I suddenly realized that I had no definitive proof that there is even such a thing as a soul to make reincarnation possible. I mean, it could likely all just be the happenings of neurons and brain chemistry and the like, right?
I know it seems astonishing that I have only just questioned this. It is, really. I have no issues doubting the existence of God or reality or anything else, really, but here I've spent twenty years taking souls on faith.
I feel so bereft now. I feel very, very lost. I want to know, damn it! What is the soul, does it exist, or have I just been willfully ignorant all these years?
I was thinking about reincarnation, see. And then I was thinking about the oft-argued fact that reincarnation isn't logical considering the exponential population growth throughout history. But I really like the idea of reincarnation, see, so I was trying to think of a way to make it somehow feasible anyway, and that was when I suddenly realized that I had no definitive proof that there is even such a thing as a soul to make reincarnation possible. I mean, it could likely all just be the happenings of neurons and brain chemistry and the like, right?
I know it seems astonishing that I have only just questioned this. It is, really. I have no issues doubting the existence of God or reality or anything else, really, but here I've spent twenty years taking souls on faith.
I feel so bereft now. I feel very, very lost. I want to know, damn it! What is the soul, does it exist, or have I just been willfully ignorant all these years?
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and if you don't believe me (and why should you?) would you believe webster?
...:: soul n. spiritual and immortal part of human being; seat of emotion, sentiment, and aspiration; the center of moral powers; spirit; the essence; the moving spirit; a human being. -ful a. full of soul, emotion, or sentiment. -fully adv. -less a. without a soul; not inspired; prosaic [O.E. sawol].