A Little Soul

happens to us when we die? This has been a question commonly asked and ardently debated by many since the beginning of humanity. Reincarnation, a solution for some to this question, involves the rebirth of a soul into a new body after its death, thus beginning a new life for the same soul. It is one of the most fascinating, yet mysterious concepts that reveals itself in several of today’s major world religions. Literally meaning, “to take on the flesh again”, reincarnation is especially…

until you dry up like an old piece of leather. But I won’t stop there. I’ll have a reaper escort your soul straight to Lulerain where you will suffer for all eternity.” The demon had a smug look on his face. “You can’t touch me unless you’ve proof I committed a crime. Treaty rules say so.” He referred to the Thalox treaty that had been drawn up long ago, protecting demons from malicious slaughter. Seemed the world needed a balance of good and evil. Eli snarled. “I make my own rules, and they…

very clear give and take relationship between the spirits of nature and the physical world. Any action from man will warrant a consequence from nature. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the tale of the mariner learning that the natural world has a soul of sorts, and needs to be treated with respect. We will explain this by looking at different examples of this throughout the story. The first being the several times where the natural world seems to almost be a character itself, seen through its…

Socrates ' conciliatory sentiment shows his profound learning in logic pretty much as the Delphic Oracle expressed "there is no individual living savvier than Socrates". The best case of Socrates trial and passing approves the cozy relationship between his character and reasoning. He trusted that logic ought to triumph in pragmatic results for the more prominent prosperity of society. Socrates endeavored to set up a moral framework in view of human reason as opposed to philosophical instructing.…

Ghost are an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image. A ghost is thought of as a disembodied soul, a soul of a dead person inhabiting the world. One case of ghosts was with a Greek philosopher Athenodoros Cananites, who saw a haunted house and started watching it at night since he was interested in what was going on. He said one night an old man, bound at the feet and hands with rattling chains, appeared to him and beckoned…

the path to break free from this preset pattern of life for us; for an individual to achieve the unattainable heights of success or notoriety, I cannot help but feel a slight cringe. The reason for this contributed to me truly realizing just how little I knew about human life, and this haunted me causing doubt within myself and whether what I wrote was complete fictional gibberish for a class, or if it something that I actually believe in. In spite of the short duration between the previous…

began to see my mother’s eyes, I see her lips, I see her nose and I see her. Even though this is not a direct portrait of my mother, I feel her present in my space. Bible Study Tools refers to English translation of NePhesh as a living being or a soul. Even though there are other meanings for the Hebrew word, I use it as referenced in Genesis 2:7 of the man becoming a living nephesh. My mother was a devout Christian and went to church every Sunday. She sung in the choir, served on the Usher…

village, the Witch’s house in the middle of the woods, and Viola’s house on the outside of the woods. Ellen’s house was next to an alley where Ellen saw the black cat. The Witch’s house previous “owner,” became the house. She ran the house, giving it a “soul,” allowing the house to be an efficient killing machine for the demon to feed. Main Character: There are two main character in this book, and the reader gets both of their viewpoints. The first main character to be introduced is named…

Why are we alive? What is our purpose here on earth? Is the soul immortal? These questions seem inevitable in philosophy. The subject itself depends on the topic of reality. Everything on this planet is present because of a certain meaning it holds and a certain purpose it will have on an individual’s life. In this paper, I will use the help of great philosopher’s such as Plato, Radhakrishnan, McCloskey, etc. to better understand the concepts of reality. Each one of them had a different style in…

“Hope is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—” (753). She starts out the poem putting a lot of attention on the word hope by capitalizing it and putting it into quotation marks. As mentioned earlier, “hope” is compared to a bird. Birds perch on trees and any other material that is horizontal in shape so they can stand on. “Hope” can “perch” itself in each individual as well giving the feeling of powerful inspiration in the human soul. The comparison of hope and birds is a great…