Soular Twins...

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DÛke

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Me and my cousin were talking 6 months ago about relationships. She described the guy she would want as a dream-mate...

My cousin doesn't know me very well, since we only get to see each other once a year, for a time period of about 2 weeks. When she described her soul mate, she almost described me, except that I'm not African-American.

We're the same age, like to do the same things, listen to the same music, favour the exact same things...we're so alike, to the point that we almost can know what the other is feeling exactly.

The discussion was evolving, and eventually she seemed just a bit hopeless that she'd never find someone exactly to her matches. 3 Months later, after she had gone back to Canada, she emailed me and told me that she found a guy that fits what she had wanted 99%. I was shocked. She described that he thinks *exactly* like her, does the same activities, has the same way of interperting deep thoughts...etc...

I started wondering...can 100% comptability occure between 2 different strangers? Can I, for example, find someone who thinks *exactly* like I do? It has gotten close sometimes, but never to the exact. There are just so many people around the world, and so many more are born each day...how could each person be such a unique individual?

And...the *living* population of Earth alone is enough to question if everyone is truely unique. However, there must be *countless* people throughout the ages...countless...so isn't there an amazing, great big chance that somebody who lived in the 19th century for example, is actually 100% like somebody from the 21st century? Nevermind somebody from the 1st century compared to one from the 21st!!!

If that's true, then wouldn't mean that the Hindu religious teachings be right, and that their religion is actually worthy of more respect and attention?

What you think?
 
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theorgg

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I believe there is a possibility of finding somone nearly identical to you.

As a matter of fact, the first girl I really liked was almost JUST like me. The only difference was pretty much just gener differences... Sadly, that did not extend to sexual preference...

and my luck hasn't changed since. Every other girl I've taken a likin' to has turned out to be a lizzard as well... :(
 
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Istanbul

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Me and Dennis Miller.

Seriously, D?e...with enough people, some of them are *bound* to turn out very similar. The odds of *meeting* them are low, but the odds of them existing are high.
 
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DÛke

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...Istanbul, call me "Duke."

Well, the thing is a bit unsettling. I've been talking to this 27 year-old lady online for about 3 months now, and how she practically know me is ungodly beautiful. She knows me because she thinks a lot like me. She knew the type of music I liked, the kind of person I am religiously and politically, and she even described what I probably look like, even though I haven't spoken of that subject, nor have I shown her a picture. She described me 80% right. I think that's pretty good...

I fail to think like her, but she can think like me. If there was any realistic phenomenon out there that has to be studied, than this is it: having such closely bonded people that are complete strangers that have never met at all.

According to my religious studies, Hinduism points out that an individual is "reborn" over and over again, until enough good karma has been collected. After that, the person is released from the endless cycle of life and death (called "Samsara" in Hindu) and is connected with the collective spirit (called "Brahman"). When I first studied it, I didn't consider it as logical or valid...but eventually, I began to see certain logic in it. There are so many people out there, and there have been even more people for a total of countless numbers. There *has* to have been a person reborn with the mind of George Washington, for example...or perhaps George Washington has to have the mind of an individual from centuries ago...or maybe there's some new born right this day with that mind?

How can 2 people, each coming for completely different set of genetic make-up, yet have 100% mental (some even physical) compatibility? Doesn't this, somewhat, go back to the story of Adam and Eve, and actually prove it a bit -- that we're all descendants from there, since we, somehow, can have such compatibilities that have no apparent reasoning? In return, doesn't all this prove religion -- even God -- as valid?

Or...is there more than just genetics that controls this?
 
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terzarima

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*Sigh*

Stupid genetics, don't get me started on it. A thing call phenotipic plasticity (Or however you spell it) proves that how a subject is raised can determine mental, physical, and emotional characteristics can differ from one genetically identical. So, in theory, genetics have very little to do with how you turn out. You might be ridiculed from a deformity, but that's just genetic's influence. So no, I think genetics has absofrickin' nothing to do with soul mates.

I do however, beleive that they exsist. Sometimes you don't even have to think exactly the same to be soul mates, opposites in the right places are good too (eh Orgg :) ? ). A person who's right for you and right for that person is probably exceptionally rare to find though...
 
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theorgg

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Yea. Opposites would work VERY well...

Met another tall, intelligent girl tonight at a Steakhouse... who again, wasn't interested in men...

:grrr:

That's #8...

I've got ALL the luck in finding the lizzards in a crowd...
 
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DÛke

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Opposites, actually, are better. I speak from experience.

This thread is not about relationships, though. It's about having a "brother" or a "sister" out there that are completely not related to you. I don't know if any body else have experienced it, but it feels a bit unnerving, yet beautiful -- for some reason. It feels nice, and very phenomenal...

That one 27 year-old lady knew me like we grew up together...I was speechless. She didn't hesitate either. She was direct to the point, in a casual conversation...

Just out of curiosity, Orgg, where did you derive the term "lizards”?
 
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terzarima

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I personally think "lizards" just fits for some odd reason....


Sorry aboot that momentary distraction then :rolleyes: . But genetics are nothing... yet....
 
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FoundationOfRancor

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Read "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan.
In it, he uses scientific evidence to prove that it's not possible for any human mind (And I dont mean physical mind, I mean the personality, persona, what have you) to be exactly the same as any other.

Apparently their are at least 10 trillion synapses in the brain, and Sagan speculates that many of them have not even been used yet.

I dont question two people being similar, but identically the same is impossible.
 
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DÛke

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...10 trillion? That's amazing!

I, too, don't think 100% indentical-ness exist, but...it could get so close. And that's what amazes me...
 
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FoundationOfRancor

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Yeah, it is pretty cool. Sagan said that the universe didnt even have 10 trillion molucules in it, but I find that hard to swallow.


Whats even cooler, is that it's statistically impossible for any species in general to see all 10 trillion of these synapses, so theres emotions out there no one has ever even witnessed.

You should really read it, it's quite the rad book.
 
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DÛke

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FoR:

...theres emotions out there no one has ever even witnessed.
Ok, I have got to get this book. This is very interesting.

Though, one would think with all the technology and science we have, we could work with those "unknown" emotions, experiement on people, and see what comes of it. I mean, to have emotions that nobody has felt is something too powerful to be ignored. I really am curious as to how much more can the human feel, and more even, *what* can a human futherly feel!

Hmmm...

Emotions are very powerful when it comes to how an indivdual acts on daily basis, believe it or not. A lot of our actions and reactions are backened by (emotional) impulses...so...having "more" emotions would mean a whole "new" way of acting and reacting...also, this means that psychology has a long, long, long way to go...

I'm getting the book...
 
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theorgg

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Originally posted by DÛke
Just out of curiosity, Orgg, where did you derive the term "lizards”?
Y'never heard that term, DUke? Well, think of a lizard, a big 'un, like the Komodo Dragon. Get a .mpeg of it moving around for a minute, and observe its tounge. What else makes that motion?

Get how it became slang?

I've heard it growin' up in Missississippi sometimes. I just kinda picked it up.

It rolls off the tounge better than "dyke"(which makes NO sence) or "Leszbian;" It's a word that just rolls off the tounge, and most people get what it means...
 

Spiderman

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Well, I think it's possible for someone out there to think enough like you to be similiar. And at 10,000 trillion synapses, even if all of them can't be the same, there's probably enough to be the same to basically qualify as identical. You just reach a certain ceiling.

As for the reincarnation idea, is it possible that it developed because people saw that some were so similiar to past figures that it was used to explain that occurance?
 
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DÛke

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...Most likely, Spiderman. Though what I have studied is much more deep and complex than that. I wrote a term-paper for my World Religions course, and scored 100%. It was about Hinduism and reincarnation. In Hinduism, the Avatars kept coming back as "different" personas. They were "reborn." Each time, history would repeat itself, in which an Avatar comes to Earth, but it has the same mind-type and spirit of the last. The Avatar always has the same mind-type companion, and the same mind-type enemy. It has repeated itself so many times, and I could describe it in detail, but it'll take long. Even Buddha (Budha?) was supposedly a reincarnation of the "Avatar." Have the same mindset, same kind of companions, and the same "evil" person who will be treacherous. The whole thing is amusing...

Orgg, I get it now. :D
 
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