Monday, January 22, 2007

Vegas and The Soul

Vegas assaults your senses. The most extreme assault takes place on vision: everyplace you go everywhere you look there’s something screaming for the attention of your eyes. Flashing lights, scantily clad women (and an equal number of scantily clad men…apparently there’s a strong market here for male strippers), and any number of unnatural and bright colors. Honestly, amidst the visual cacophony that results from the "visual screaming" nothing really stands out. It’s like sitting in a room with hundreds of people who are all screaming at the top of their lungs for your attention – not much gets through.

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So, if we have a soul, what exactly does our soul do? In what way does our soul interact with our human body?

It’s extremely unlikely that a soul is behind anything with a physiological explanation. The issue (for me) is…more and more things are beginning to have a physiological explanation. What aspects of life does our soul have control over? I suppose the question is…if we have any kind of free will, which decisions do we make? I won’t say that I don’t care about the science behind the soul-body interaction, but in this particular case I’m only concerned with the results of said interaction. In which areas does it fall outside of the body and outside of the rational mind to the area of the soul to make a decision?

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