New Beginnings

I've never written a journal before, or anything similar to one, so I don't know what will come of this. I don't expect or want followers, people reading my thoughts is just weird to think about. So I don't even know why I'm writing this out here, maybe its better to write a journal. Nah.

So I started this blog in the middle of The Examined Life with Brian Glenney, and we are talking about souls and what happens after we die. The theories he has are as follows: Floaty Soul, Gappy Soul, Non-gappy Soul, and Body-Snatcher Soul. The Floaty Soul theory is that when you die, your soul leaves your body and just floats around in a purely spiritual existence. The Gappy Soul theory follows Jesus' death and resurrection, that when we die our souls go somewhere for a while, and then receive a new body(spiritual or physical). The Non-Gappy Soul theory just shortens the Gappy Soul theory, so that we jump from one body immediately to a new one when we die. And then there is the Body-Snatcher Soul theory, which I interpret as when we die, God snatches our souls from our bodies and places them in a new one. This is similar to the Non-Gappy Soul theory, with the exception that God is moving your soul, not your soul itself moving. I started writing as he was explaining this last one, so I missed part of the explanation. Whatever.

I believe that when we die, our souls are brought directly to the gates of Heaven, and to us this appears to be an immediate thing. I say "to us" because time is a relative thing. Its a measurement of the length of life, the length of the universe. So when we die, I believe that we are taken out of time, and brought before God for judgement. In the several cases in the Bible where Jesus Christ brought people back from the dead, he says they are merely sleeping. I don't think these people fully died when he raised them. And in the case of Samuel's ghost speaking to Saul in the Old Testament, I don't see why God couldn't allow Samuel to return to Earth for a short while. And when the end of the world comes, and there is the "resurrection of the dead," we return to Earth to serve our purpose there. Back to the souls, once pass judgement, those who go to Heaven are given their new and perfect bodies, and I'm not sure whether those that go to Hell receive new bodies or remain as tormented souls. I think the worst possible torment is to behold the glories of ultimate perfection, and be denied entrance.

I don't know if that was coherent enough for you non-followers, I lost my train of thought near the end because Glenney had us all harmonize with him. He's a very random professor. So I guess this is good enough for my first blog post, I tried to interpret my scatter-brained thoughts, and hopefully I will get better at this as time wears on.