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[lathriel]

OH MY GOD
my leg DOESN'T EFFIN' HURT.
after FIVE F**IN' YEARS.

*sigh of relief*

accupuncture is amazing.

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So that means you can take Karate!!!!!!!!!!!

[bitterbonker.livejournal.com]

Just a thought.

Speaking of thoughts, yes, I don't believe in souls, or more specifically that anything is eternal. I don't think there's any plane "higher" than this realm; I believe that there are stages of existence that we are unable to detect, but all simply contribute their part to the dynamic equilibrium that manifests in the world we see. In a way, everything contains eternity, because that is what an infinity has produced in that particular constituent of it. If that makes any sense.

But, long story short, the accumulation of the past dead in ever-growing communities (which is what I percieve would happen if new sould are constantly being concieved while the old ones live everlastingly) is something that appears to me to contradict what I see of the world's ways everyday. We are born, we live, and we die, all in perfect harmony with the perpetual flux of the universe, even as its multiple elements clash ferociously. Again, I don't know if I'm making myself clear at all, but basically everything I've seen I've taken as evidence that the mind does not go on just as it is not static--it is a small problem for me to chalk up certain incidences of otherworldly phenomena as unexplainable, whereas it would be a massive leap for me to accept that the mind does not decay as does the body. I would like it if it were so, naturally, but that's about it in terms of motivations for believing in it.

But I do have a spiritual side... I just find the things of the earth and the heavens to appeal to it. I don't see any need to seek out something "greater"--though I don't know if you do either, for that matter.

[lathriel.livejournal.com]

But bryan, time has to be eternal, right? it can't just start one day and stop.
unless you think time doesn't exist.
or, in which case, all of existence would one day not exist and then in the blink of an eye exist... which is impossible because the nothingness before would exist, and therefore be a part of all of existence...
and given the fact that the "soul" is of heaven and earth, of both the unseen inexplicable eternal and the intervals of decay of matter, having a soul is not a great leap.
To solve the ghost over population: reincarnation?
but I don't claim to know all. I just speculate. And in my unraveling of speculations and all, I believe not only have I discovered the soul, but the existence of true magic, also, which is embedded in all things earthly and physical.
and that is what my books are greatly about :)

[lathriel.livejournal.com]

also... what about clairvoyants? are they really just 100% nuts?

[bitterbonker.livejournal.com]

Well, Time is a difficult thing for me to define, but there are things we know of that seriously eff with it, such as black holes. My personal suspicion is that the nature of Time changes, as do all things. Its rules that appear absolute to us are in fact the processes by which it changes.

Also, I somehow overlooked reincarnation, which is interesting because that's basically what started this in the first place. I have some qualms with this, for one populations of organisms shrink and expand, not to mention our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, which are in themselves living organisms. To me, life isn't radically different from anything else; it's just another example of matter taking patterns and form in an open-energy system, just like the planets and stars, etc.

But I don't claim to know all either (or maybe I do, but I at least make some sort of effort to keep an open mind). I don't mean to pitch your ideas as junk, I'm just curious and sharing my own. As for clairvoyants, they fall under that unexplainable category I mentioned earlier. It would be ignorant of me to dismiss them as nuts, but as of my current knowledge it's a hell of a lot easier to explain things around them than to explain them around everything else.

[lathriel.livejournal.com]

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshly sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use it's proper name: Temporary. -Frank Herbert