If your soul can be incarnated, what kind of being would you like it to be?
By secretbear
@secretbear (19448)
Philippines
December 5, 2007 5:37pm CST
(incarnated - made into flesh; having a bodily form)
i just watched The Golden Compass last night and i was amused by those animals loitering around humans. ^__^ those animals were the incarnation of humans souls and they are called daemons. anything you do to the daemon is also felt by its human. and when the human is still young, the daemon can change into one form to another, like for example, the daemon is a bird, it can change to a cat or a dog depending on the emotions or will of the human. when the human becomes an adult, the daemon will settle into its true form.
hmm.. for me, i would like my soul to be incarnated as a white bunny with a thick fur. it would be cute to see it hopping around me. ^__^ or maybe just like mokona from the anime Magic Knight Rayearth. mokona looks like a rabbit. or it could be a butterfly with a real grace and elegance with bright colors like pink! LOL and it would always be seen in my shoulders like a butterfly resting in a flower. LOL that would be so cute! ^__^
what about you?
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23 responses
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
8 Dec 07
I can't wait to see that film, but none of my friends are interested, so I guess I'll wait for a few years and watch it when it's released on Sky, the cinema is so expensive, sorry I digress I would love a wolf to be my soul, because wolf is warm and cuddly, it is very protective and is wary of strangers it would look after me and make sure I didn't get myself into any more mess in life.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
6 Dec 07
I'd prefer some sort of cat, like a jaugar or a tiger maybe.
Otherwise I wouldn't mind a bird that much...as I've always envied birds, to be able to fly.
Though I suspect my bird would be something like a hawk or a crow lol.
And if I couldn't have either of those two types of animals, a Coyote would suit me fine lol.
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@raychill (6525)
• United States
6 Dec 07
Well I think that as a living being your soul is already incarnated. So your soul would have to be reincarnated. Some people believe that reincarnation is a real thing and I don't think you can choose it.
So I'm going with that. I don't think it should be something that is a choice. I think it's something that maybe your experience and knowledge now will help out and you'll learn even more in the future.
in short that is.
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
6 Dec 07
i was asking, if you had a daemon, what would it be ray?? a daemon is a soul-incarnate according to the movie the Golden Compass.
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@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
6 Dec 07
haha ^_^ i tot u will wanna be an angelfish instead ^_^ hehe.. For me, as long as i get to live, incarnated to wat being also doesn't matter to me.. In fact, it's a chance for me to experience each type of being's living methods :) hehe.. Then i shall be to act cute like the beings too ^_^ LOL
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
6 Dec 07
hi kun.. yeah, i still want to be an angelfish.. but i wasn't talking about me changing into something after i die..
i was talking about having a daemon, my soul incarnated into something while i am still living, not after i die.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
6 Dec 07
I would want to be something that lives for a very long time! LOL....like a horse or something. In reality....if I were to come back as anything....I would come back as a tree with deep roots...Brian Andress a poet says...a tree with deep roots knows the thing that children need to learn...
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
6 Dec 07
yeah, thanks jill. that's an interesting idea about REINCARNATION.
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
6 Dec 07
I may be a little confused here, but I thought the way incarnation was supposed to work would be that we morph into a higher form of life and last time I looked, humans were pretty close to the top of the food chain. So I would have to say I would like to become a better, smarter, more skilled human. If I am mistaken about earthly forms of good and evil and had to go retrograde into some 4-legged form of life, then I would probably choose a cat. Not some regal Lion or ferocious tiger, but just a common house cat, preferably one belonging to a nice family with no dogs, no kids, clean habits, and filled with the desire to feed me the most yummy of kitty delectables, to give me a soft warm bed at night and sun-filled days.
Oh, and just a thought...maybe a a few rabbits and butterflies to chase after!
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
6 Dec 07
thanks for you idea drannhh. i am sorry if i weren't that clear with the details. ^__^;;
but as i said, according to the movie, daemons are soul-incarnate of humans while they are still living. i should have put that "still living" thing there..
@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
6 Dec 07
I reckon I was a lion in a previous life. I think next, I would like to be a whale.
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
30 Dec 07
if your daemon would be a whale then you have to be in the water too! oh.. i think there's a type of daemon that can go whenever it want to go and be separated from its human for a far away distance..
@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
5 Dec 07
I would like to be my cat or my dog. Not another because a lot of them have bad lives but I would want to be one of mine. My pets have life so easy. They are so pampered and spoiled they have it made. They are so loved and get so much affection placed on them. Right now my kitty is sitting up on my computer monitor and watching me and dozing off and on. My doggy is on my lap and keeps getting in my way, but that's okay too. They are getting a lot of loving from me, always.
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
6 Dec 07
i wasn't talking about REINCARNATION. as you can see there's no "re-" there. its not a typographical error.
• China
6 Dec 07
Do you know the music of "Butterfly Love" ? I thank you will be love it.
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
6 Dec 07
no i don't know that. what has it got to do with my discussion??
@RowenaTheWitch (947)
• Italy
30 Dec 07
Hi secretbear!
Are you talking about reincarnation after life or incarnation like in the film? If I could have an animal around me to represent my soul then I'd root for a huge bird: I'm secretly a free spirit and flying on the top of my own soul would be awesome xD.
But I'd love Mokona the same. A cute little mokona hopping around and saying "Poooo" all the time... how KAWAII!!!
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@RowenaTheWitch (947)
• Italy
30 Dec 07
Ah, and if you are wondering what kind of bird would I choose, then... a huge black crow. I'm scary sometimes so it would fit xD
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@keminem001 (779)
• Saint Lucia
6 Dec 07
and they might probably shoot you down and use your skin for a fur coat or something. i ain't being negative i'm just making it clear what is out there. if i had to come back reincarnated i would be me always will be me (although i always wanted to fly. so i probably would be a bird). i don't believe in reincarnation. when you're gone that's it. no more of you. the end of the line.
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@urbandekay (18278)
•
7 Dec 07
What makes me me is nothing but the sum total of my instances and my memory of those instances. I am the sum of my actions, thoughts, feelings, memories, experiences, etc. This is my identity; who I am. What then of the me can survive reincarnation?
So, if the soul passes from one body to another but has no memory of that former life (And as I understand it there has never been any authenticated instance of a person remembering any details of a past life) Then in what sense is that the same person, I think by common sense, it is not.
I think the idea is wrapped up with a confused notion that we are somehow like the driver of a car. That the me is the driver and my body is the car but that, thinks I, is just a misconception of ourselves. We, body, mind, spirit, however you like to call it are an integrated whole not really capable of being separated into component parts.
For these reasons I think the concept of reincarnation fundamentally incoherent
all the best urban
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@cefaz_21 (2596)
• Philippines
6 Dec 07
hello dear..so this was the discussion your refering to..right? I have not see The Golden Compass yet so I think I cannot relate..but girl I do understanbd why you're a bit disappointed about the re-incarnation thing..maybe the readers got it mix up..and yeah..maybe it would have been more clearer if you have put the "still living" word there..
but..hey..still so many responded to this and I guess you can smile for that..okies? bawal nakasimangot!!
cheer up girl!
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@smwilliams (647)
• United States
6 Dec 07
You poor girl...No one got what you were saying.. I do.. I would want my other self to be a butterfly or a bird..Just because they can fly and keep a great eye out for me while I was walking around! Not to mention spy if I needed them too! : )
Im going to see that movie this weekend...Was it any good?
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