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But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through.

It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

Everyone grieves differently and like you said, listening and observing is important.

Their grieving and healing process is up to them. Even if you have experienced a death, someone else may experience it very differently. What helped you may not help them.

One piece of practical advice I can offer is this:

Typically after a death, family and loved ones will come together to offer comfort and support in the days and weeks following.

Afterwards they will say something to the effect of “Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you need anything.” It’s a really nice sentiment. But sometimes the grieving don’t know what they need, don’t know when it’s okay to reach out, or fall into depression and withdraw.

So if a person loses a loved one, check in with them now and then instead of waiting for them to reach out. Take them out for a meal or a drink. Don’t forget to include them in invitations even if they decline every time. It’s important to remind them of a larger community that is open to them and always there, for whenever they are up to it.

Much love ❤️

Raises so many interesting questions too!

Are there any organisms with soul ploidy > 1? I racked my brain but all the syncytial organisms like slimemolds generally originate from asexual reproduction rather than many organisms coming together and dissolving their membranes.

Hypothetically for a myxomycete slime mold, if you managed to get two haploid cells to fuse right after germinating from a spore (soul each since those spores are sexual) then you could originate a plasmodium with two souls by my count! But that's as far as i could get, and haploid slime mold cells generally do undergo some rounds of mitotic division before fusing.

If you count microbiota as part of a holobiont, how many souls does the average multicellular organism have? Or do we share a soul? That'd be cool too.

No virus goes over 1μm, even the giant amoeba ones, i checked :(. If you consider like some do that some bacteriophages that integrate their genome into their hosts aren't reaaaaally that much like typical viruses but rather more part of the bacterial pangenome as a mobile genetic element, then some viruses do get a touch of divinity. Also applies to human retroviruses.

Do dikaryotic fungi have two kinds of soul in the portion of their mycelia which has two nuclei?

‌Chloroplasts are more than 1μm large, do they have a soul? what led the cyanobacteria to associate with the archeplastid ancestor?

(i love the name pneumaton btw, great link to the original meaning of anima in latin)

i should elaborate: you remember how in the bohr model of the atom where electron shells can only exist where a whole number of electron wavelengths fit into an orbit (because otherwise destructive interference occurs)? it's a situation kind of analogous to that. pneumatons in their ground state have a wavelength of about 1 micron and so can't exist in smaller organisms. they can have a shorter wavelength if they have a higher energy, but then they can decay into other bound sophon states, like psions, animons, cognitons, or even pure inspirons (high-energy, low-mass particles a bit like neutrinos, that preferentially only interact with brains when they're bored and don't have a bit of paper handy to actually write stuff down on). otherwise their mass is too low to really decay into anything else, which is what allows pneumatons to be stable inside protein-based tissue.

long range structure of souls is built up by the exchange of psychons, the force-carrying particle of telepathy, prophecy, daydreams, and weird higher math that doesn't correspond to anything useful. in the late 19th and early 20th century it was hoped that the psychon could give us direct access to the realm of platonic forms, until Saussure's experiments in applied semiotics killed platonism dead in 1903. efforts to unify fundamental metaphysics moved on to antisymmetric Deleuze-Guattari theory in the 1960s.

I never wanted to have kids without first having a good reason for doing so.

I think that often people have kids for self-based reasons such as wanting to leave a legacy or as a way to live on after physical death. Or maybe they wanted someone around to take care of them in their old age. While many other people have kids just because they consider it part of human life and they don't really think about it beyond that.

Even if that ends up being good for the parents, I don't think that's very good for the kids.

But eventually, thanks to Khalil Gibran, I did find my own reason for intending to be a father in the future:

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

This is how I feel about having children and being a good parent. The way I see it, beings are always reincarnating. If I don't provide a path to incarnation through my own reproduction, then they will find another path.

So if I do choose to provide a path for a being to reincarnate into this world, then I want to help them on their journey. And while I have ideas on how to go about helping, I am also ready to listen to them to find out what they need. Contributing more sane and peaceful humans to this world would be a blessing for all.

That being said, I have great respect for those individuals who have genuinely thought it over and decided not to have children. That too can be a wise decision.

Much love!

Faith means believing the unbelievable and hope means hoping, even when everything seems hopeless."

Mosstober - Day 1. Lush

The Green House Arduaine - Francis Hamel , 2023.

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