Recently I overheard a conversation that ended, essentially, with the woman furious and claiming the other lady was heartless. "Don't you have a soul?" she ended with and stormed off. I don't know exactly what was going on in the conversation but from what I gathered it was about putting down a family pet or something similar. Anyway, that got me thinking.
Do you have a soul? I don't think so. we don't have souls. How could we possibly? How could we be in possession of something that is not tangible? We already claim things such as intelligence and love but they are based on knowledge and love and such things. A soul is completely different. A soul is not only misunderstood, it's something we decide to apply to other, to remove from them, or to withhold from animals. A soul is a completely different concept to those as love and compassion. But still, although we may attempt to explain what a soul is we have yet to fully understand the concept's basic elements.
It's not about owning a soul or not owning a soul. We can't take it away from someone when they do something stupid or heartless, we can't deny it to other beings. We aren't bodies that may possibly have something like a soul inside us. Neither are other people and neither are other beings. But I think with some people it's like arguing at a brick wall because many still choose not to believe this.
What I choose is not to be a body with a soul.
I'm not a body and have a soul, I'm a soul and have a body.
I don't understand fully the meaning when people claim ownership over their bodies but decide they are unsure about their souls. To me its completely reversed and we should rethink entirely how we've been approaching the whole creatures have souls situation.
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