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Originally Posted by Athena  So, then our souls really are different and separate entities? That would mean it's not really a merging of anything, but simply souls traveling back to the spirit dimension. |
That makes more sense to me, but that's just me.
But let me add a bit of something extra here. It is not that your soul is separate or different, but the fact that you experience it as such makes it so... What does your heart experience? Does it feel whole with your body the way you feel it being whole with your body? Or does it see itself as being separate than the rest of your body but somehow cooperate with it? Will it realize that it was part of a whole body after it dies? Will it know that it died because the whole body died?
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Originally Posted by Athena And would mean, when the drops of water go back to the clouds, they are still separate. |
It is all atoms and they are technically all different ones, but they are so tiny, you cannot distinguish which is which. However, if you marked them, you could track them. In fact, some of the latest medical technology does that to track molecules in your body to take nice clear pictures of your organs.
Technically, your entire body is brand new every 3 years or so... All the atoms are replaced with new ones, but somehow you rebuild the same body. Now does that mean you changed? or are you the same as before? Did you have to rebuild the exact same body? Did you merge with the world out there because the atoms which used to belong to your body left you? Did these atoms even realize they used to belong to a body, but now they don't?