RE: The Soul
May 16, 2011 at 1:54 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2011 at 1:58 am by Shell B.)
(May 14, 2011 at 7:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I like soul better than rap but I think I'd rather get beaten with an iron bar than listen to rap.
I indulge in a little James Brown every now and then. My lack of ethnic culture of any kind - excepting food - really shows when I dance poorly and clean to Superbad, though.
I think the complexity of human nature confused people and they needed a simpler explanation. Of course, the soul is not a simpler idea, but it came with a guarantee that there was not much to think about. Your soul is there; god put it there. End of story. That is much easier than pondering human behavior and how mistakes seem to leave a dark mark on our memories, making it seem as if some negative energy has been applied to some intangible part of us.