03-01-2012, 09:24 PM
What I was thinking about when reading this was, "Well souls are not a given, so trying to fathom what they are prior to determining that seems a bit out there."
You see, anytime you open with this sort of question, which is not purely rhetorical, you run into the debate about whether this is, or isn't true. I think you would be on safer footing to just state it as a belief, yet still in the pejorative.
Like sturgeons but unaffected by death, do souls continue to grow?
I assume this is reference to something, which you might want to specify, like
So a slight switch
Do our souls, like the essences say, continue to grow?
Are they like a sturgeon whose home is the universe,
growing until they bump up against the greater predators of the stars...
(the above is not meant as a poetic suggestion)
Thus instead of seeming to ask this question in the realm of factuality, it enters the realm of conjecture and whimsy, and encounters less resistance. It assumes to be true, those things that would be impossible to prove, and goes from there. It assumes there are souls, it is merely conjecturing if they are like such and such says.
I'm a little tired. Hope that makes the sense I am trying for it to make.
Dale
You see, anytime you open with this sort of question, which is not purely rhetorical, you run into the debate about whether this is, or isn't true. I think you would be on safer footing to just state it as a belief, yet still in the pejorative.
Like sturgeons but unaffected by death, do souls continue to grow?
I assume this is reference to something, which you might want to specify, like
So a slight switch
Do our souls, like the essences say, continue to grow?
Are they like a sturgeon whose home is the universe,
growing until they bump up against the greater predators of the stars...
(the above is not meant as a poetic suggestion)
Thus instead of seeming to ask this question in the realm of factuality, it enters the realm of conjecture and whimsy, and encounters less resistance. It assumes to be true, those things that would be impossible to prove, and goes from there. It assumes there are souls, it is merely conjecturing if they are like such and such says.
I'm a little tired. Hope that makes the sense I am trying for it to make.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.