Soul mates?

[Stranger]

wagnerr said:

In this context, "Soul Mate" really means "a partner with whom i can have hot, sweaty, passionate sex with every day for the next fifty years, in a totally non-complicated, committed relationship with no un-happiness or stress whatsoever." ;D

So then your "soul" is... what, your hot sweaty genitals?

Doesn't sound quite like what Bodhi was wondering about. I think he really was getting at the ol' romantic notion of two people fusing together so tightly that their "souls" actually have or form some kind of cosmological connection. Either that, or, as others have alluded to, they're "made to be together", like two jigsaw puzzle pieces manufactured to fit snugly inside one another. Which isn't much of a stretch if you go back to the genital interpretation. Aren't jigsaw puzzles sexxxy? ;D

[Orionation]

I believe there's plenty of people out there that anyone could be completely happy with, but I also believe there is one in particular that is meant for each person. I just believe it's a matter of whether or not we accept that best one for us by having the faith and patience to save ourselves until we find that special someone. But yea regaurdless there's still definalty more than one person that each person could be happy and compatiable with.

[HybridMoment]

orionation said:

I believe there's plenty of people out there that anyone could be completely happy with, but I also believe there is one in particular that is meant for each person.

A person meant for everyone?

Even Ted Kaczynski?

Not that I'm interested or anything. Actually, as screwed up as it is there are people who fall in love with famous convicts and write them letters.

[HybridMoment]

sweetpea said:

hybridmoment said:

A person mean for everyone?

Even Ted Kaczynski?

Not that I'm interested or anything. Actually, as screwed up as it is there are people who fall in love with famous convicts and write them letters.

but that was the problem! Ted Kaczynski didn't find his soul mate, and look what happened to him!

Oh, that explains everything.

In that case I should go work on my own manifesto. ;D

[deadendphilosopher]

I read a book called "Journey of Souls" which was written by a hypnotherepist, who supposedly regressed people back to past lifetimes and where they went between lives. In his book it says there are groups of souls who progress together through many lifetimes, and that they (I think) each have a soul who they are especially connected with or something who could be considered their soulmate, though they are not neccessarily together in every lifetime. In the book it said that each soul roughly chooses its own path in life while it is out of a body, though it doesn't neccesarily follow the path.

Of course a lot of the things in the book sound far-fetched, but a lot don't. You never know.

[ProdigiousGamer]

I think that it is fake.

[cradith]

I believe there are some people you connect with and others you don't. When my husband and I were dating we both worked in the same warehouse and I would know that he was in my area before I saw him. I have a male co-worker that 9 times out of 10 know that he is in my area before I see him. We seam to talk to each other on a non-verbal level. I can tell when he wants to talk and when he doesn't. Alot of my co-workers think that he is strange because of some of his habits and because he is quiet.

[lennythegiant]

papdancer said:

Also I find it curious that so many people (usually religious or spiritual) believe in soul mates and free will at the same time.

I'm Christian, believe in free will, and think the soul mates idea is a load. There are probably plenty of people out there who are good for you, it's just a matter of finding them. And even if you meet someone you can settle down with, God forbid something happens to them, you could probably find someone else to be happy with.