You know, as of late, I've been rather calm, mentally. Nothing has been rattling me. Which of course, makes for boring entries, since I'm not tearing into the darkness of my soul, or damning the world and those in it.
Which I suppose I don't mind in the end. I can hardly complain when things are going well. Well, perhaps not "well", but better then shitty.
I have found my mind tracing back to a conversation I had with jocelyn on wednesday night. The night was interesting over all, riddled with mixed signals, and over all was amusing to my mind in the way things panned out. However, that is off topic.
Soulmates.
Do I believe in soulmates? Not sure, to be honest. Its most certainly a very romantic notion, something I have told myself I believe in before. The more I think about it more, the more I doubt it.
There are so many arguments against it, that it just doesn't seem feasible. For starters, probability. Consider this, a soulmate is one person whom completes you. So, one person out of more then a billion people, which is your opposite. Your perfect match.
If soulmates do exist, that is lower chances then winning the lottery, and we've seen how often that happens. Lets of course not forget that meeting this person may then involve travelling around the world, to the most barren regions, in the most unlikely places. Not everyone has those kind of finances.
There is also the issue of time... In order to believe in soulmates, do you need to believe, then, in reincarnation? If soulmates are a one time go of things, for example, I was born, I have a soulmate, when I die, I go to heaven or hell, and that is that... Which would make things rather simple, my soulmate would have to have been born at the exact same time as I myself was born.
After all, it is one soul split in two, right? Now, if we throw reincarnation into the mix... Well, we got a whole nother ball of wax. Reincarnation theories are stretched at best. Lets run with straight reincarnation though, human to human (after all, if we go through a dozen life cycles before reaching human once more, we got even more complications!)
So, some many millenia ago, born at the same time, my soul mate and I were entered into this world. Sure, I can buy that. However, given the times back then, one of us would have died before the other, undoubtedly. So now we have a staggered situation of reincarnation...I'm thirty, she's just born. Now I'm a new born, and she's in her forties, not to mention in different parts of the world.
How many decades, no, centuries, would it take before we coincide once more? It seems a rather cruel joke to force a person to endure that kind of thing. Even when we did match up, different parts of the world, different cultures perhaps? Now you are back to those one in a billion + odds.
The odds are even more jumped up than that even. After all, souls are sexless... So you're soulmate could be the same sex as you, or not, how do you know? Which of course begs to question sexuality of an individual, etc etc.
Now, amusingly enough, I did find one manner in which soul mates -could- work. I'm sure some religion caters to the idea, however I kind of staggered on it in a video game. Sad, I know, that such a philosophical discussion could come from a game.
Final Fantasy VII offered an intriguing option. The Life Stream. That we are all one, trees, grass, humans, animals. That when we die, our souls return to the Life Stream. When someone is conceived, their soul is comprised of the Life Stream.
So, with a thought like that in mind... Perhaps it works? After all, if millenia ago, two souls were born pure and whole, at the same time, soul mates....their deaths wouldn't matter. Part of their soul would surely be used in dozens of other new souls.
This of course opens up the possibility than, that maybe we have more then one soulmate? Definitely improves your odds. Particles that make up the whole. Over millenia, you could have a dozen, a hundred, even more, prospects whom hold a part of your Other's soul.
In truth, this is about the only way I can see it working. Otherwise, its more of a hoax then anything. The biggest gamble of happiness, which in itself is near impossible to perfect.
Perhaps a lil deep... Or perhaps I ruined the great contemplative theory by bringing a video game into the mix. Though it is valid to the discussion.
I suppose, if I believed in soulmates, I'd be pressed to think I lost Mine when I was too young to realize the perfection I had. Though I'm sure Darcy has found better in her life. *smiles*
Ah well... Feel free to let me know your stand point on it, my readers. Is reincarnation the way of it? Does the Christian God give each Human one chance at happiness? Do Soulmates exist? If they do, are they your chosen lover? Or are they merely your other half?
Peace out,
The Zodiak
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You are completely leaving out a major part of the equation. The divine plan or direction. Some say the universe has a plan, a plan to bring everything into alignment. If such a plan exists then it is entirely probable that the universe would contrive to bring soulmates closer together so that they cross paths. The universe guides us by putting things infront of us, we still have the free will to either "accept or deny" such things but what the universe wants, it tends to get. To quote someone who wrote something "Lessons are repeated until learned" the universe keeps putting things in our path until we finally do what it wants. SO, if there are soulmates then in it's striving for unity the universe would put into motion those events that would make you cross paths with each other. Thus increasing the odds of you actually finding your soulmate. Some people even go so far as to say that everyone crosses paths with their soulmate, just some don't notice them for what they are.
Oh, and your original hypothesis on reincarnation presumes that one is reincarnated at the exact time of death. What if there is a time lapse between death and rebirth? Is it not possible that the souls could wait to be reincarnated again together? Or at least around the same time? Just a thought.
Basically, Fate. And yes, I suppose I did neglect that key element. Not sure how. Just wasn't on my mind at the time.... Perhaps Fate could compensate for distance, probability, etc... And true, the theory on soulmates being reborn perhaps at similar, or same times, due to lapses between reincarnations is possible... Which would then leave to question, once our soulmate dies, why not off ourselves in order to be with them all the faster? Which of course begs to question, is a soulmate our one true love, or merely our other half which could then, perhaps, be simply a friend, a confidante, or other?
Not fate per se. Well it could be that but you don't have to look at it quite so militantly. More just a general progression towards unity.
Your next premise about offing yourself doesn't quite hold up. If you are still searching for your soulmate and haven't met yet, then how would you know that your soulmate had died and you should off yourself in order to come together? As for after you've met your soulmate, some cultures believe that you should off yourself when your soulmate dies, hence throwing yourself on a funeral pyre and such, so your attempt at being absurd lacks it's shock value there.
Your soulmate completes you, rounds you out as a person. This does not necessarily mean that you will have wild monkey sex all the time. If that isn't what you need to complete you then it won't be. So yes, your soulmate might just be a good friend and confidante. This of course doesn't mean that they aren't your one true love, for there are different kinds of love. Just one will be more true when you connect with your soulmate.
I wasn't necessarily aiming at "wild monkey sex" as a solution to "lover" when I had mentioned that. However, your point to it not necessarily being necessary lends weight to that side of things. Which was really more the opinion of which I was seeking.
And anything that sats the universe has a goal, be it unity or chaos, tends to lend towards the development of Fate, in one of its many incarnations. Not sure if it would be militant, but the word, and concept of fate, was developed for that very reason, for people who figured that there was more to the world then random happenstance, led to the term of Fate, and Destiny.
As for the suicide pact of death, practiced in some cultures.... One should note that it wasn't always willing.....wives were tied to funeral pyres in norse funeral rites, and concubines, slaves, and wives, were buried in the temple with the pharoahs of egypt. Its even noted that people who have been with their mate for a number of years, will die within months, sometimes weeks, of their partner, despite being healthy.
I more consider if this is fate, or perhaps our own path. I don't claim to believe in, or disbelieve in the soulmate... I'm undecided. I consider many things, like the agnostic I am. I merely wonder if fate perscribes us a soulmate at the beginning of time, or at the beginning of life, or if we make our own fate, choose our own path, and our soulmate is merely whom we chose to be with and develop that relationship. Do we control our lives, or is it predestined... And if it is predestined, it comes to question why we actively seek out the perfect mate, when fate should, in all rights, bring them to us.
Perhaps that is a little condescending to the higher plan of the gods, whichever they may be. *shrugs* I find it an interesting topic to delve into though, and appreciate the input. If you are on my msn list, would like to continue it more indepth at some point.
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