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Carmen left a comment on my blog about souls and her own experience. She raised the valid point that according to Christian religion animals, places, and things do not have souls. That said, I think that they do have souls. I think that’s what makes art, art. After-all, who are we to say what does or does not have something that we can’t define? I’m not saying that everyone has a “soulless object or creature” as their would be there soul-mate but I think there are some people in this world who find more comfort in hugging their dog than hugging a “friend”. Likewise their are some great artists out there who loved their work more than they loved their families. Maybe they just didn’t have their soul-mate, but maybe they already did and it was an art form.
I’ve got to remember to thank Carmen in class today because her comment got me to thinking about Jennie. After-all, does Jennie have a soul? Does her painting have a soul? Or is the painting the combination of her and Adam’s souls? If we did have souls, can we lose them to pictures and paintings? Can we lose them to people? How does one gain a soul?
As to perfection, I used that term when talking about soul-mates because a soul-mate to me is a perfect complement to who you are. I don’t believe in perfection as I said in the previous post, but I believe the term soul-mate is flawed because it means some ONE who is your mate in 6.5 billion people, just one of them can be my soul-mate and that’s being optimistic, believing that they live in the same time period as I do. As to PoJ, I’ll save that for afterclass. Or after I watch the rest of the movie tonight.
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