tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post5267878329590623335..comments2024-01-08T13:44:54.771-08:00Comments on Dizgraceland: Don't tell a soulTimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07838683246636045823noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-4425481566295278912010-02-12T08:04:11.810-08:002010-02-12T08:04:11.810-08:00First I'd like to clarify that I don't &qu...First I'd like to clarify that I don't "believe" any of this - I just like the idea.<br /><br />The soul is separate from the mind and personality. The mind thinks its own thoughts, develops a personality, keeps the heart beating and so on. The soul takes an active role in influencing all these physical mechanisms but is not the ultimate arbiter. The mind has free will.<br /><br />Maybe souls posses bodies that are suited to them. Maybe souls influence how bodies choose mates so that other souls can posses the suitable offspring. Maybe it's all evolutionary. Maybe it's all bureaucratic.<br /><br />When the mind dies, well, it dies. It's just a chunk of sweetmeat after all. We have plenty of mechanisms to make sure things of interest to the mind are not forgotten - religions, written and spoken language, children, youtube and so on.R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03774469060066226829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-3371862541250457252010-02-11T11:10:54.099-08:002010-02-11T11:10:54.099-08:00R. Thanks for that visual.
So you think that the...R. Thanks for that visual. <br /><br />So you think that the soul is separate from the mind and personality? Or do you define mind as simply controlling automatic body functions and the soul controls the thoughts and personalities?<br /><br />I would think that if the mind is separate from the soul you create yet another puzzle as to what happens to the mind after you die.Timehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07838683246636045823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-83678218439862057582010-02-11T09:50:54.320-08:002010-02-11T09:50:54.320-08:00I've always been partial to the idea that our ...I've always been partial to the idea that our physical bodies were meat puppets. The soul has its hand shoved up the body's backside trying with varying degrees of success to get the possessed to reflect the soul's nature.<br /><br />If one considers how difficult it is to work a puppet with only a few strings, imagine what it must be like to work a human body with an independent mind!<br /><br />Anyway, the idea goes that when the body dies it is cast aside and the soul finds another one to possess.R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03774469060066226829noreply@blogger.com