[Redpyramidhead]

Actually, I disagreed about the soul being anything like the way frankenstein's monster was brought to life in that story. Interestingly enough, I read the book in 12th grade... and the teacher was telling us it was a story about necromancy and other related horror and fantasy story topics, but the book was more science fiction than anything else (one of the very first in the genre I believe) and I don't even remember the author even knowing what "necromancy" really was, if it were to exist. It's simply the story about the reanimation of a dead corpse and in a way it parrellels the ethical issues of today when we speak of human cloning. I don't completely remember the book, but didn't some of it deal with the question whether the monster had a soul or not? That itself was argued to be a seperate issue than the fact the corpse made of many corpses was reanimated upon being struck by lightning.

Anywayz, the subject of physics as it is taught now does not take into account the type of physics that would be capable of describing such a thing as the human soul, in my opinion. IN saying that, it sounds like I would believe that the soul can be described by some level of physics we cannot comprehend yet, but the truth is I do not know and of course I don't know. This is all speculation and that's all it can be, but the point is, Frakenstein is a fictional story. Why is it a fictional story? Because it didn't happen. No monster was created in that fashion, by lightening. So we cannot learn what the soul is from that aspect of it, but we can combine it with the current issue of cloning and try to use that to learn what the soul might be, at least partially.

So, most importantly, what we are talking about here is something on a completely different level of physics. Metaphysics.
So, I am actually a little confused. One moment we are talking about a horse and a carriage that won't move and the next we are actually speculating that the bolt of lightning that animated that creature in a story actually could be a soul. DO you see how both are on a completely different level or subject. Perhaps the point behind all of this is this: Think of that lightning that reanimated the monster as a metaphor for something else, in order to tell a story about the argument of such a thing having a soul or any real place in this world.

Wow...I am certainly ranting again. I definately opened up a whol can of worms on this, too. I'm somehow making myself stop for now, though. This is fun, though.


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