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 Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:42 am
Who in here believes in soul mates? My personal opinion: The idea of a soul mate is actually very saddening to me. I know it's supposed to be like "there's someone for everyone so don't worry" but what if your soul mate was born in a different time? What if your soul mate died early? Or what if your soul mate is on the other side of the world? The chances of meeting your soul mate are, very very very slim. And what happens if you don't meet? Or you meet too late? What happens if you meet but don't stay together? I don't know. It just seems really sad to me. The idea that you'll love your soul mate so no matter what, you'll find them and be happy is also not... very... realistic, in my opinion. I've dated and I've been in happy relationships, with more than one person. So none of them were supposed to happen? None of them actually meant something? Post your ideas and argue against mine, please. 
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:56 am
I don't believe in soul mates. I believe in people who just click, who mesh together so well that it seems as if they were made for each other, but I don't believe that these people are soul mates. I just can't think of any reason why they such a thing as soul mates would exist.
Besides, the idea that there are people who are 'meant to be together' strikes me as absurd and cruel; absurd because the chances of two people who are 'meant for each other' actually finding each other is very slim, and cruel for the very same reason.
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:33 am
I believe in soul mates whole-heartedly. At one time, I really started to think about the idea, and, like you, got really sad about those same questions. Here's when my tiny brain has come up with to absorb those questions.
1) Not everyone has one soulmate. Some have two or three. That makes meeting them a tiny bit easier.
2) Not all soulmates are meant for erotic relationships (long term dating, marriage, whatever). Some are purely phileo-type love. Brotherly love.
2) If you can believe the idea of past lives, (and actually I got this idea from Charmed, but it still makes me happy) our souls and those of our friends, family, and (close) acquaintances tend to float around each other. Therefore, though you may not have met in past lives, you likely had encounters, even if it was standing in line in the grocery store or something similar.
3) The idea of your soul mate having lived only in the 1800s and you only in the 2000s (assuming you don't believe in multiple lives) is just depressing and I doubt any Powers that Be (Whatever yours happens to be, even science or yourself) would be that effing cruel to plant the idea of soulmates in our heads then say, "Oh, oops. Yours died 300 years ago, sorry. Too bad."
Now as far as meeting in this life (regardless of the existence of previous lives) at the wrong time, e.g. you're married, they're married, etc. etc. Well, if you don't fall into my brain's first idea of multiple soulmates, then well, maybe you're just screwed. Sorry... can't do any better than that.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:03 am
I put more stock on a concept I usually call 'Soulkin' rather than any specific manifestation of it such as a soulmate. For someone to be soulkin, all that is needed is an unusually high degree of resonance between the essences of two entities. Said another way, these are things you feel unusually close to OR things you grate against to an unusual degree. We're all interconnected to each other in one way or another; the distinction is that in soulkin there's something that is noteworthy enough in your own mind that you feel there's some sort of 'special' connection.
Soulkin no know boundaries. Relationships between things include EVERYTHING, whether it be human or not. Your favorite color, if it is strongly so, is soulkin to you. If there's a particular plant or animal you love to a high degree, that creature is soulkin. It's not just about people.
There are different ways of explaining how and why these sorts of resonances form, but for the most part I'm just not as interested in that. Apprechiating that it's there and recognizing it matters more to me.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:50 am
I think I may have posted my point of view on this before, but I'll post it again.
My view requires a belief in reincarnation. Supposedly, everyone has a past life. I've never met or heard of anyone that didn't. Now, with the world's population doubling every several decades, how do we get souls to fill all those bodies, if there's now more bodies than souls?
The soul splits and each half becomes a full soul. It is those two "halves" of the same soul that can be considered soul mates.
The same soul can split over and over again. In fact, I believe that way back at the beginning of life on this planet, there was only one single soul, created by God.
So if this is true, it explains how you can get more than one soul mate, and how you may feel closer to your more recent soul-split (soulmate), than one you split with a couple generations ago.
I also believe it may be possible for sould to re-join and become one. However, this isn't always the case with finding your soul mate. I honestly believe I've found one of my soul mates, but we won't join together on death because the two of us have taken very different paths.
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:18 pm
I don't believe in soulmates because it involves too much fate. I don't believe in fate because I know I make my own choices in life, I have free will. The concept of fate is terrifying to me and the idea that there is a soulmate out the that I have to find is hard to accept. Because that means that either I am fated to find this person and I have no free will or I have to try to find this person and because I have free will I could mess it up. Also they have free will too which mucks things up a bit more.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:18 pm
I believe there ARE people that you are connected to... I am a book nerd so I would go all Anne of Green Gables and call them Kindred Spirits xd ... people you just seem to automatically click with. Yeah. BUT actual "Soulmates" no. I don't believe God works that way. I believe we have choices. But I believe that through love and WORK to the Lord a couple can BECOME "soulmates." An example of that teaching from my church: Quote: "While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be, more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person. Soul mates are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price." ~Spencer W. Kimball
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:44 pm
I don't believe that anything in existance is set, prepared, matched, or otherwise planned. Also, I believe that we all share one universal soul - or Atman - so our common soul is a soulmate onto itself.
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