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   "Paradox Balance"  wrote:   
      
   > "Crowfoot"  wrote in message   
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   > > In article <5pv06019cuultkpilb9gahmtmm6b56rtu0@4ax.com>, Jyeshta   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:58:55 GMT, "CAndersen (Kimba)"   
   > > >  wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > >But, extrapolating from my own theory, the expanding human   
   > > > >population   
   > > > >indicates that there are more ailing souls, and that is worrisome.   
   > > >   
   > > > I've read that a soul can have more than one simultaneous   
   > > > incarnation.   
   > > > I don't remember where I read that, but it meant to address the   
   > > > question of the human population explosion.   
   > >   
   > > Not necessarily; it may well be that the influx of newly minted souls   
   > > into this physical reality has only recently completed itself; and   
   > > that we may see a time when, if we continue to insist on blind,   
   > > brainless   
   > > population increase, we will begin to see human bodies incarnate   
   > > without   
   > > souls, which would be something like The Dawn of the Dead, IMO.   
   >   
   > Consider this analogy:   
   > A large body of water is contained behind a dam.   
   > As holes are poked in the dam in various places, water streams through   
   > the holes.   
   > In this analogy, the body of water is God.   
   > Each hole in the dam through which water streams is an individual,   
   > physically incarnated life.   
   > Thus, there won't be any dry holes (bodies with no souls) as long as God   
   > continues to exist behind the dam.   
   >   
   > I don't know how representative this analogy is to the way things work.   
   > These are just thoughts to play with.   
      
   Nothing wrong with it, and thanks for it; but I think of these things   
   a bit differently.  I think there was a time when proto-humans and   
   even early humans were still simple, though clever, animals.  At a   
   certain point, souls began to take up residence in order to live on   
   the physical plane.  At a certain point, when great numbers of those   
   souls have completed their courses of incarnate lives as human beings   
   and moved on to discarnate levels of spiritual evolution, human beings   
   (if there are any left at that point) will return to being "just"   
   animals, that is animate creatures that operate via instinct, not   
   reason.  Sometime later, assuming the planet is still liveable and   
   all other life forms presently on it haven't been extinguished for   
   lack of habitat, water, and sustenance in general (except for those   
   that live as our parasites and scavengers -- rats, pigeons and   
   crows, roaches etc), another species edging up into self-aware   
   consciousness will be taken up by another wodge of souls as the   
   vehicles for incarnated lives.  Maybe bears, or raccoons.   
      
   Just another theory, no more proveable than yours; but I like mine   
   better, what can I say?   
      
   In times like these though, the claim that human beings are actually   
   something you could describe as creatures of reason (as opposed to   
   strictly instinct) is sort of hard to believe, let alone defend . . .   
      
   C.   
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