Tracy
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Post by Tracy on Feb 12, 2005 19:54:19 GMT -5
If our dæmons are our souls, then what about the spirit? Or are they the same thing? Dictionary.com says (my comments are in blue): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spirit 1. The vital principle or animating force within living beings. 2. Incorporeal consciousness. Our dæmons, perhaps? 3. The soul, considered as departing from the body of a person at death. 4. The part of a human associated with the mind, will, and feelings Maybe our dæmons are what what makes us have feelings, a will, and a mind. 5. The essential nature of a person or group. Once again, that relates to our dæmons. They take on the form of the animal that reflects our personality the best. Soul 1. The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. Our dæmons! 2. The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. 3. The disembodied spirit of a dead human. 4. The central or integral part; the vital core ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Post by Annie on Feb 12, 2005 20:38:45 GMT -5
Well, you cant' really expect a dictionary to be correct about anything spiritual. Sure, it can come close, but I don't think one is a good place to look for stuff like that.
For me, my soul is Rho, and my spirit is me. My spirit is my consiousness. Can't really describe it more than that, but they are different. That's my theory at least.
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Post by cock of teh walk on Feb 12, 2005 21:49:46 GMT -5
This reminds me of the movie i was just watching, Suicide Club, ( that movie owes me an explanation ) They kept talking about ' being connected to yourself ', for example, if your wife died, you would still have a connection to her. If your children died, you would still have a connection to them. But if you died..would you still be connected to you?Eeh..there was more but..feck I cant remember.. They kept asking people ' are you connected to you? ' Eventually I decided this was a roundabout way of asking if the people knew " themselves", loosely, "their daemons" ..get it? And uh...other...stuff....
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Post by |3200k1 on Feb 12, 2005 21:56:51 GMT -5
This reminds me of the movie i was just watching, Suicide Club, ( that movie owes me an explanation ) They kept talking about ' being connected to yourself ', for example, if your wife died, you would still have a connection to her. If your children died, you would still have a connection to them. But if you died..would you still be connected to you?Eeh..there was more but..feck I cant remember.. They kept asking people ' are you connected to you? ' Eventually I decided this was a roundabout way of asking if the people knew " themselves", loosely, "their daemons" ..get it? And uh...other...stuff.... I wanna watch it.....
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Post by rave & phair on Feb 13, 2005 6:50:45 GMT -5
There's the theory that a human has three parts: mind, body and soul; most people here believe in that. Yet some refer to it as "spirit, body, and soul". So is spirit you, and soul is your dæmon? They're very similar, and they're intertwined. Lyra said (yes, i know, i'm referring to a work of fiction again) "I can think about my body, and I can think about my dæmon, but I can't think about how I think, so I know there's another part of me that's doin' the thinkin'."
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Post by |3200k1 on Feb 13, 2005 13:15:28 GMT -5
There's the theory that a human has three parts: mind, body and soul; most people here believe in that. Yet some refer to it as "spirit, body, and soul". So is spirit you, and soul is your dæmon? They're very similar, and they're intertwined. Lyra said (yes, i know, i'm referring to a work of fiction again) "I can think about my body, and I can think about my dæmon, but I can't think about how I think, so I know there's another part of me that's doin' the thinkin'." That wasn't a daemon reference to say taht everything PP says is completely true, so I think it's okay to refrence fiction. I quote Poe,Shakespear,Charles Delint and Anne Bishop all teh time.
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Kamy
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Post by Kamy on Feb 13, 2005 13:22:36 GMT -5
you stumped me there *facevault*
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Post by Tyrannus et Callida on Feb 13, 2005 14:34:04 GMT -5
I've always believed that spirit and soul are different. Actually, I once saw 'daemon' in the dictionary.
Let's see...
Ah. Its origin: [Middle English, from Late Latin: daemôn, from Latin, spirit, from Greek daimôn, divine power. See d- in Indo-European Roots.]
The meaning I want isn't on Dictionary.com, but here's what I remember from my dictionary: Basically, it said that 'daemon' derived from greek, and means muse or inspiration.
Interesting, huh?
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Post by Kamy on Feb 13, 2005 14:38:50 GMT -5
isnt spirit like a ghost?
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Post by Ditto on Feb 13, 2005 15:01:52 GMT -5
Nope, a spirit and ghost are two entierly diffrent thing's. A ghost is just someone's soul with no body pretty much.(That's the only way I can think of putting it)
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Kamy
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Post by Kamy on Feb 13, 2005 16:32:14 GMT -5
now im even more confused
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Tracy
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Post by Tracy on Feb 13, 2005 16:43:57 GMT -5
Nope, a spirit and ghost are two entierly diffrent thing's. A ghost is just someone's soul with no body pretty much.(That's the only way I can think of putting it) Wait, a soul with no body? Doesn't that mean it's a dæmon without a human body or spirit or mind or whatever we are? Agh! Scary thought.... No wonder they're so tortured, they've been seperated from their humans!!! *clings to Ash* I'm never letting go! Agh!
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Kamy
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Post by Kamy on Feb 13, 2005 17:16:13 GMT -5
wouldnt that be a normal animal?
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Post by Spiral Sun on Feb 14, 2005 0:15:16 GMT -5
The way I see it is Soul = Your dæmon Mind = You Body = Physical world thing we move around in.
Didn't the Egyptians have a simmilar philosopy? Ka, Ba and Ankh, >_< I've already forgotten what their called! Noooo! Don't mind her, she's an ancient history nut
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Post by |3200k1 on Feb 14, 2005 15:47:53 GMT -5
The way I see it is Soul = Your dæmon Mind = You Body = Physical world thing we move around in. Didn't the Egyptians have a simmilar philosopy? Ka, Ba and Ankh, >_< I've already forgotten what their called! Noooo! Don't mind her, she's an ancient history nutYou have Ba and Ka right,but Ankh isn't,I don't think.....I KNOW an ankh is the cross thing,but it could be body...I don't think so....but yes,they did
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