Let’s Face It, I’m Just Better
Much of what’s included in the vast umbrella of woo-woo loosely called the New Age movement is actually a thinly-veiled attempt at making people feel crappy about themselves. And it’s pissing me off. Let’s talk about one now, shall we?
The Old Soul
“Oh, you’re such an old soul!” or “He knows SO much, he HAS to be an old soul!”
kajsfkfkef,.llkkkkk (that was the sound of me retching with contempt)
You’ve heard this before. Old = Better. Old = Wise.
Strictly and reincarnationally speaking, an “old” soul is someone who’s been around the reincarnational block a few dozen times, with multiple lifetimes to show for it. But age doesn’t correlate with wisdom, at least not in a linear fashion. Sure, most chronologically older people, in order to survive that long, have acquired at least some basic common sense skills, but there ARE 60-year old retards out there. Old people come in all shapes, size, and IQ levels, just as anyone does.
Ergo, old souls = same fucking thing. NOT necessarily better. They just have more experience. Sure, they COULD know better about certain life experiences, having done them before, but all of us are stuck in this same earth-plane funhouse illusion-factory where nothing makes sense and we’re not given any fucking rules or even a map so we have to make up our own. Every time.
So yeah, I’m [hypothetically] an old soul, but I’m [hypothetically] just as fucked up as you are.
But the thing is, we’re ALL of us pieces of the Same.Thing. The same universal energy source that is All That Is. Not only that, but we’re not even pieces! We just have conveniently fooled ourselves into thinking we’re separate from anything else around us because we’re in these bodies wearing skin that separates us from one another in our minds, but REALLY we are EXACTLY the same as the gum on the soles of our shoes.
So not only is there no separation between any of us but there is no difference, really in soul age. Old soul, young soul, fuck that. Time doesn’t exist except in our limited human perception so there’s really no such thing as Old-anything. ALL souls are equally wise, ALL souls have equal access to the universal energy source that is All That Is, and ALL souls have equal access to whatever rules there are down here, the rules of being human.
There’s no better.
There are just different ways of perceiving.
And just because you can’t truly grasp anybody else’s way of perceiving things, and they can’t truly grasp yours, does not make theirs better. Or yours. Just … different.
(Except for me, of course, because I’ve got everything figured out. But you knew that already.)
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August 24th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Old souls are just slow learners
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August 24th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Perhaps a better title would be “Learned Ones” or “Wise Ones” what word means wise one again… hmm
o yea!
Witch
Wise One
To Bend,
To Twist,
We are Witch, We are adaptable, mutable. That I think is the number one thing new agers and fluffy bunnies don’t get. There IS No Dogma… There are NO Hard fast rules about how things have to be.
We are the power that we need…
Blessed Be
~Raining Winds
August 25th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Well, NOW you have the e-mail
Thanks for stopping by my place. Love the attitude over here. I’ll be back.
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August 25th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Seth: Exactly!
Raining Winds: Put together “Power that we need” and “Raining Winds” and I am thinking win energy. A huge metaphysical antenna farm, anyone?
Suldog: Oh, I knew you from before, in another blog life.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Hmm . . . I’ll raise you one, NAB, and say that I don’t believe that there really is such thing as a “soul” at all. Rather, the only thing that really exists is “karma” (properly understood, which it isn’t by most, I think). I think that part the attachment people have to the idea of a soul is the basic fear of death, and so they cling to the idea that something about them will go on. It’s yet another illusion based on certain basic human fears. It’s also, I propose, a religious relic.
But, even without a soul, how do we account for all the pretty convincing evidence of reincarnation/past-lives? I don’t find reincarnation as easy to repudiate. At the same time, as with so, so many things, while reincarnation may exist, it most likely does not exist as we think it does. Ah, that familiar rub. . . . What is reincarnated? Karma? What’s karma?
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August 25th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
If you can’t learn something new everyday from a young soul, you have no business claiming to be an old soul. I am 42 and forever learning from the youngsters at my job (and the ones I am raising as well). Good for you for knowing the difference…and knowing it all as well!
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August 25th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
LOLLLLLLLL
Be sure to Share yer Wisdom @ The Repube NeoCon Brainwashed Flock convention with 72 Year Old Retard John McANUS!!!!
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August 25th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Wow, that post right there would have left Socrates speechless.
Although I had to read it three times, I think I fell in love with the concept. Nice…
August 26th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Oh, an old flame, eh? I’ll have to see if I can figure out who you are. When I have a reasonable guess, I’ll be in touch.
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September 4th, 2008 at 10:53 am
For this cacker, only the crust counts. No crust- no credibility. I am liking your crust. Good and stinky.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
There’s no fool like an old fool, they say. Movement is not progress, they also say.
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September 1st, 2009 at 6:17 pm
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