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   On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:00:33 -0330, David Dalton    
   wrote:   
   >   
   >Does anybody else on here believe that e.g. rivers have souls?   
   >   
   I once read somewhere a statement that all objects have a soul that   
   protects their form.   
      
   An implication is that an object would be formless if it was just a   
   mass without processes to give it a shape and that those  processes   
   can be collectively considered to be soul like.   
      
   Or one could alternatively say that if we don't know what the   
   processes are, why not regard them as constituting a soul?   
      
   Also one mystery of reality is that the internal angles of a triangle   
   add to 180 degrees. This can be explained as resulting from the   
   geometrical properties of space, but then one can ask what causes   
   space to have such properties?   
      
   It would seem likely that space has processes that cause this to be   
   the case and if we don't know what they are, why not also regard them   
   as constituting a soul?   
      
   So even without belief, its possible to argue that objects, rivers and   
   even empty space can be regarded as having souls, but in principle   
   this is a question of preference.   
      
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