(10) vague wonderings
Aug. 28th, 2013 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
i was wondering... is anyone on here religious? or i dunno "spiritual" i guess?
i've been thinking a lot about souls lately. like, can souls be connected to other people across lifetimes? can past life actions effect current outcomes? i know at least from a christian standpoint, that's not true. souls are supposed to be eternal yeah, but not getting reborn all the time! then there's some people who say we don't even really have "souls" at all. i used to believe in souls, but souls should be made by god, but if.. if past lives are real, and if your past life was less than human does that mean you don't have a soul? or does the "alien threat" we're facing right now somehow prove if god exists then he's not all powerful? or was this all part of some ultimate powers plan from the very start???
i know it doesn't matter to a lot of people, but it's just something that's been going through my mind.
were we always just here to save a spot for someone else, to host the people we remember? i don't want to think of it like that, but there's no other way i can conceive of it.
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if we leave the city, we forget, sometimes people here forget, for no reason we can discern. i think that we should try and figure out this reason. there are some people here, i think, especially the younger people here, that shouldn't have to be put through something like this. i think, maybe if there was a way we could make it a choice.. that would be better.
i'm not a scientist i can't begin to think of how to figure out why people forget and why they don't, but if someone had an idea, i would try to help however i could so, let me know i guess.
i've been thinking a lot about souls lately. like, can souls be connected to other people across lifetimes? can past life actions effect current outcomes? i know at least from a christian standpoint, that's not true. souls are supposed to be eternal yeah, but not getting reborn all the time! then there's some people who say we don't even really have "souls" at all. i used to believe in souls, but souls should be made by god, but if.. if past lives are real, and if your past life was less than human does that mean you don't have a soul? or does the "alien threat" we're facing right now somehow prove if god exists then he's not all powerful? or was this all part of some ultimate powers plan from the very start???
i know it doesn't matter to a lot of people, but it's just something that's been going through my mind.
were we always just here to save a spot for someone else, to host the people we remember? i don't want to think of it like that, but there's no other way i can conceive of it.
----
if we leave the city, we forget, sometimes people here forget, for no reason we can discern. i think that we should try and figure out this reason. there are some people here, i think, especially the younger people here, that shouldn't have to be put through something like this. i think, maybe if there was a way we could make it a choice.. that would be better.
i'm not a scientist i can't begin to think of how to figure out why people forget and why they don't, but if someone had an idea, i would try to help however i could so, let me know i guess.