Assuming we have a soul

Assuming we have souls, what comes first, the soul or the body? Like, are our souls created when our bodies are being formed? Or are our souls already 'there' and then just get attached to our bodies?

Would you be the same person if you had a different father or not?

 

maybe they grow together

 

That's what I meant by the first option

Then the saying "old souls" wouldn't be true

 

If by soul you mean consciousness, the "I am" in all of us, I'd say we take a spark of it with us from the womb and it develops and grows as we age along with the rest of us. This is just a novel idea and it's not quite in accordance with my personal beliefs but it would take too long to write otherwise.

You would not be the same person with a different father, as both your genetics and environment would have been different.

 

My sister said something really sweet the other day.

She's like, "I've realised everyone has a place." And I looked at her funny because she's not one to say stuff like that.

And I'm like, "What do you mean?"

And she's like, "The way we look like on the outside has nothing to do with who we are on the inside."

She said that her and her friends had seen an 'unattractive' man and she didn't think he was ugly because the chances of him being there were so small that he was beautiful and he was lookin' through eyes just like she was. She said obviously he had a place.

 

Ever watch the show "How it's made" ??...I like to imagine that our souls are mechanically injected at conception by some kind of invisible machine like the ones that put the balls in the ball point pens and goes so fast that you have to film it at super high speed and then play it back in slow mo.

 

Invisibly injected by a machine? Hahah. Why didn't I think of that?

By the way I think it's creepy how this thread has 6 replies and no views

 

I'm not a fan of the "old soul". My belief is when you die and move on to the next step in your life you leave your body and your soul is the part that goes to the next step.

 

Soul first...

My theory is the body is a vehicle that takes us through this leg of a far greater journey that probably began long before this incarnation. When the body wears out or breaks the soul is released- sort of dropped off at that point to continue hitchhiking through the cosmos.

 

we aren't born with souls

we have to grow them

 

also, stinky thats a dumb theory

 

I think its an awesome theory.

Thanks stinkfoot

 

Take it or leave it. Clearly you disagree but that hardly qualifies it as "dumb".

 

I (for one) believe that we are soul (or call it spirit) having a body - a vehicle - including additional benefits such as time, separation, limitations, individual awareness, and all the wonderful experience that comes along with it.

The soul is like the matrix energy where all physical experience is hosted, sparked, nurtured, and used for further growth.


Just a thought from this brain

 

Maybe it's all an illusion and this body is the soul. When we believe we die we enter a new domain, and everybody else sees some phony corpse rot. Maybe some people have souls and other people don't -- maybe some people are just robots who speak words that appear on a black screen in their minds. *shrug*

 

agreed

 

Mmm the chiken or the egg dilema.
Well, I think, like I think about the chiken or the egg...
Our "soul" evolved from two or more different things...and eventually become one.
What those thing were I have no idea.
But, I do think our "souls" have evolved like that.

I guess it depends on what you think a "soul" accomplishes.
If you think it makes us who we are...then there are several possibilities.
Who ever dishes "souls" out might form a "soul" around a vehicle (our body) and that person becomes an embodyment of the "soul" itself.
So, we wouldnt be any different, I guess.

Or

The "soul" has nothing to do with our personality.
Therefore we would be different.

Personally.
I think our "soul" resides in our heads.
I think our soul is continually evolving through our lives.
It starts as soon as a baby becomes aware...and all those lovely synapsis finish forming, if they ever do that is.
Because our synapsis may never finish forming, our soul has the possibilty to become "good" or "bad"...dependent on environment or damage.
So, the body comes first, imo.
(got there in the end)

 

Cheers odey

 

everybody shares one soul, each different body experiences it differently. its made of pieces like synapses in a brain all interacting and sending out vibrations of love, when someone is born a bunch of energy from all around(from mommy and daddy and everyone in the world) fuses to co-create. after all, we are all family.

 

i'd think our soul are created long before our body (saying there is really a soul...)
that's why some people are able to say 'i have an old soul' or 'i am a young spirt'