The soul is the only vehicle that we keep after this life, in whatever form that expresses.
To not value a soul, while valuing anything else of a person, is to not give them true value.
Instead of the conventional wisdom that leaders are trained, the existence of a soul and will implies they’re born, then fostered.
There’s always more to a person than you can see. If you believe that when speaking with someone, they’ll respond well to it because they’ve become important.
We can’t directly observe a soul, and the easiest way to discover the value of a soul is through changing the situation that person is in. Make a rich man penniless, or give a low-ranking person ultimate authority. Their value is in the virtues and goodness they keep or change as the situation shifts.
We are often entitled because we believe we deserve something. In truth, we only deserve things the same as anyone else (meaning we must consider the needs of everyone around us) or by our merit (which is based on results just as much as intention).
Humanity doesn’t really change as a baseline. People will change individually, but everyone is born with approximately the same base programming, then adapts to their environment (which includes other humans’ interactions). If the environmental stimuli stops, the new people being born will be the same as we’ve seen for all written history.
The transhumanism movement is doomed to never achieve immortality, mostly because their proponents haven’t sufficiently grasped how the human soul works.
- Since many of them are naturalists, they consider the soul, brain, mind, and psyche to be synonyms.
- Without knowing the raw mechanisms of how we’re built with absolute certainty (including our connection with God), they miss a major component of how to fix humanity.
- It will persist, however, because it’s a secular religion, filled with myths and hopes which are difficult to easily define but easy to believe in.