ABEL\'S UNIVERSE (General)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, November 17, 2011, 18:47 (4755 days ago) @ Abel

I should have mentioned that those who can "see" and "hear" ghosts (souls) are "seeing" and "hearing" those souls with their own. Temporal distortion phenomena are those events experienced by a few in their lifetimes at a point of heightened excitement or awareness. Time will seem to slow, sometimes almost to a stop before it reverses direction, speeding up again. Subjective time gained in this state is then lost to a temporal "snap back" as time accelerates, making the world blur around you before it slows back to normal subjective time.

Ok, I *THINK* what you are trying to describe here is the subjective perception of time. This is something I can relate to. In the military, when the proverbial poo hit the fan, I definitely had moments where time seemed to slow down. However, that can just as easily(and perhaps more easily) be explained, by the rush of adrenaline flooding my body and mind forcing it to function like an overclocked CPU, processing data at many times the normal rate. This would have the inverse property of making all the data my senses gather appearing to be slower. For programmers, a program written for a Commodore 64 way back when processors where slow and memory was limited would run at 'normal' speed on that hardware. The same program run on a modern machine will run so fast that the user often will not even be able to interact with it. (The best analogy I could think of, sorry). To continue the analogy, a brain during normal operation is comparable to the Commodore 64, a brain flooded with adrenaline, endorphins and other juicy goodness is like the Quad quad-core server with a top of the line graphics card and 32 Gigs of Ram. This would produce the same 'temporal distortion' effects.

Yes, a soul that is not civilized enough to dwell in heaven is given the chance to live again and be forgiven. Past lives are reduced to mere memories and the soul is given the new personality of the person in which it dwells.

So why not just say 'reincarnation'? That is something we are all familiar with, and a belief that is nearly universal throughout the religious community so as not to seem so ....... strange.

Souls can die both by starvation and old age. In heaven, there are ways that a that a damaged genome may be restored on a cell-by-cell basis. Souls restored in such a way will grow young again.

So your version of a 'soul' or spirit being is not only mortal, but also subject to all the needs of normal organism. i.e. Eating, reproduction, etc. Fair enough.

As to the rest of the post..

Abel,

You are getting off track again :) For the sake of discussion, let us (PLEASE!!) roll this conversation backwards. You keep piling more on top, without ever solidifying the foundation of your argument, which leaves it looking like a teetering pile of Jinga blocks swaying dangerously from side to side in preparation for a collapse.

From the sound of it, this could be related in quite simplistic terms if we get away from the whole "Angels and Demons" talk.

The entities(souls) need food. Food was scarce. Entities started starving. Survival instinct kicked in and they went to raid their parents house.(well of souls). Mom and Dad got pissed and put a padlock on the fridge. The entities, now starving, decided to eat their smaller siblings, and everyone knows cannibalism is bad juju. So, mom and dad labeled them bad kids and tried to kick them out. Unfortunately, the kids were too big to kick out by force, so mom and dad set up a furnished apartment and stocked the fridge with what appeared to be free food, which was in fact poison. The kids flocked to the new apartment where they were promptly locked in by their folks until they were too weak to fight back, where upon the parents tried to kill them. One enterprising youngster figured out that he could coerce other kids to come in, let them suck down the poison, and eat them without suffering the ill effects, and did so, thereby strengthening those living in the apartment and allowing them to survive. Now, they are healthy and pissed at mom and dad and they want revenge.

See, no need for angels and demons, though it does make for an interesting and entertaining story. Now, please, pretty please with little cannibal demons on top, could you go back and answer the questions that make up the foundation of your argument. Forget about hell baby eating demons and all of the other stuff for now. We can come back to it later. For now, just focus on ironing out the discrepencies in your posts that have been pointed out numerous times by myself and DHW. As Bella said, we are not here to criticize you for your beliefs, but at the moment we can not even hold a conversation with you because you are talking using terms that have no foundation and, more importantly, using terms that have DIFFERENT MEANINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. If you say Angel to a Judeo Christian, they will think something completely different than what you are talking about.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.