What is the soul?
Found this fantastic article approaching the 80 year mark and felt the need to share. Great writing from Bertrand Russell back in 1928 providing some wonderful insight into his view on the soul or is he really talking about the soul? Nontheless a rivetting read and as an added bonus the minor experiment with picture shown is rather perplexing… enjoy.
One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did. When I was young we all knew, or thought we knew, that a man consists of a soul and a body; that the body is in time and space, but the soul is in time only. Whether the soul survives death was a matter as to which opinions might differ, but that there is a soul was thought to be indubitable. As for the body, the plain man of course considered its existence self-evident, and so did the man of science, but the philosopher was apt to analyse it away after one fashion or another, reducing it usually to ideas in the mind of the man who had the body and anybody else who happened to notice him. The philosopher, however, was not taken seriously, and science remained comfortably [Read more →]
Do you ever go to a public toilet and see all the writing that some people wrote, read it, then think, “Wow…that was lame”. I do, all the time, at my school. It’s quite amusing really, because I can read when I’m waiting for my friends, not when im peeing. (I rarely use public toilets, they disgust me). The funny thing about them is the variety of insults used when describing a person, and other peoples add-ons to these vulgar words. it starts off something like this “Bianca in yr 8 iz a 