seriously, though, i'm sure that you, dear hellion, have wondered about certain things...
maybe even about the same things that *I* have.. .
the nature of souls? existence? you know you have.... and so, i shall tell you what i think, on this 22 day of january, in the year of our lord 1998... at 1.56 am, 8 hours before my next class, so poetically called 'satan'...
anyway, enough of all that.
what is a soul? like, does it even exist? is it a figment? i really couldn't say.
i mean, ok, we all agree about the world, right? i mean, ok, this could all be a dream, and there's no real way to prove anything, but, well, if that's true, then we're stuck in the dream and may as well get used to living in it.
if you could call it that...
anyway, ok, we've agreed on life. in the sense that, well, hearts beat, and lungs take in air.
so then, what's a mind? something that thinks? oh, yes, that would be a brain. sorry.
so, then, a mind is...?
yeah, i know, it's hard to define:)
then what's personality? and where does it tie in to the mind?
and is a 'soul' merely the emotional side of one's mind?
don't look at me, how should i know?
hmph.
anyway, for the sake of argument, let's just say that people have souls. not people like me, of course, but normal people.
then what?
what is it that the soul does? and where is it that the soul goes after death?
well, i'll have you know that i HAPPEN to be a christian, and believe in heaven and hell. even if my perceptions of that have recently been tested( i'm starting to wonder about the existence of the devil... i know there IS one, i just wonder, well, if he could really be God in disguise...
for years i wouldn't even LOOK at the question, dismissing it as blasphemous...
but then, i realised that, well, if God were omnipotent, then he'd be in charge of everything, evil included. or else he'd not be omnipotent, right?
but THEN, i was all, 'but then, what IS evil? what IS wrong? and... what does it matter?'.
hmm. i dunno. great questions, methinks, but, well, where does that leave one?
questioning everything.
it's hard.
and yet, through all of that, i'm still left with my original faith. and i DO mean original. it sounds a bit off the wall, and i suppose it is, but it's what i believe...
what? you actually want to hear it? um, ok...
just don't say i didn't warn you....
welcome to my speech on
ok. um, where was i....? oh, yeah... souls... um, at this point, my views on souls are rather tied to my opinons on love, for some strange reason. which isn't really so strange, if you think about it. i mean, what part of one IS it, really, which actually FALLS in love? the brain? the heart? no. how can they? they're merely physical beings which haven't a... mind of their own, so to speak...;)
anyway, back to my wonderful speech.
oh, another thing to consider before i go on... can a soul come back?
and if so, then how can one ever hope to finally settle down in heaven or hell? assuming you think there Is a heaven, and that there IS a hell.
i would actually prefer it if they didn't exist. i mean, sure, it'd rule to hang with God for all eternity, but what if you could sleep forever? or, like, just, well, go out? like a candle being extinguished? wouldn't that rule?
well *I* think it would, so there. well, for now, anyway.
and what of the question of soulmates? and old souls? and universal souls?
oh, but i'm getting ahead of myself, my apologies...
well, it's now 2.26 am, and i must away. but fear not, i'll be back another day... to torture you with more nonsense, no doubt...
but have a rest... back at the hall of saddened souls... and if you ask what the sadness is for, just think how much sadder one becomes when considering how the world really is...
