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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article ,   
    David Dalton  wrote:   
      
   > In article <1aj9i0l7sv28u.1slqupzdd23rj.dlg@40tude.net>,   
   >  Mike Duffy  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 02:02:18 -0330, David Dalton wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > When I say that there is soul alignment between A and B   
   > > > I mean that A and B share the same soul, at least   
   > > > temporarily.   
   > > >   
   > > > Since I think 2004 (though I probably have had the   
   > > > ability since 1991) I have occasionally facilitated   
   > > > a soul alignment between two others, such as for   
   > > > example between a pub and a deceased patron (or maybe   
   > > > the founder) of that pub, or a house fairy.  ...   
   > > > Guinness and the river Liffey.   
   > >   
   > > Being an atheist, I am not an expert on souls, other than the thing that we   
   > > all feel we have apart from our bodies. From an IT point of view, it would   
   > > be the program or memories versus the hardware platform which is analygous   
   > > to the physical body.   
   > >   
   > > Thus I do not understand what you mean by a "soul" for a place or a   
   > > commercial beer brand. Perhaps you have abstracted the canonical sum of   
   > > your expectations of the memories or ideas of all other people about   
   > > Guinness (or the River Liffey) into a generalized concept. I can easily   
   > > imagine that my dog has a soul, because she has feelings, independant   
   > > thoughts, and sometimes REM-state dreams.   
   > >   
   > > But a river is simply a flowing body of water. For sure, an individual   
   > > river can evoke memories of events (and feelings) you have had previously   
   > > when at the same locale, and the sum of the memories (and feelings) of   
   > > everyone (and his dog) of that river might be categorized slightly   
   > > different than for other rivers, but it is not the same thing as a soul.   
   > >   
   > > And if you feel that Guinness has a soul, you have fallen completely into   
   > > the trap set for you by the marketing company hired by Guinness.   
   > >   
   > > > Since I have this ability to soul-align myself with   
   > > > any other someone I say that I am an avatar-2 or   
   > > > avatar type, whereas an avatar-1 is a someone that   
   > > > is permanently aligned with just one other someone,   
   > > > in my terminology.   
   > >   
   > > Be careful with this. It is much too subjective to be of any practical use.   
   > > You may feel that you have the ability to align other people's souls, but   
   > > in all likelyhood it is grossly clouded by your expectations given that   
   > > there is not objective way of measuring it.   
   >   
   > I am an animist in supposing the river Liffey to have a soul.   
   > But I also consider things like a pub or a beer brand to   
   > have at least a small soul which I can expand to align with   
   > a deceased someone's soul, such that e.g. the pub shares   
   > a soul with the deceased founder of the pub.   
      
   There is some discussion on this on alt.philosophy.taoism   
   as well.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
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   and hold your bones deep to the root of one" (Dorothy Livesay)   
      
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