From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: A soulfree perspective 
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:50:02 GMT
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>FROM:   Lucio de Re <lucio@phyrql.Alt.ZA>
>
>Now, if I may butt in, I would like to point out a limited belief
>system that may throw some light on this subject:
>
>    *** I postulate that atheists have no soul ***
>
>From my limited knowledge of religious writing, I assume that the
>soul is the communication channel between human beings and God,
>thus explaining the atheist inability to perceive God's presence.

["What a terrible thing to have lost one's soul.  Or not to have a 
soul at all.  How true that is."...D. Jamforth Quayle]

>Personally, I suspect that there may be only 144000 souls available
>(the number of elected in Revelation(s)), but evidence seems to
>indicate that a greater number is in fact available, perhaps some
>souls are more equal than others.

Close.  That's the bandwidth -- 144000 souls can pray simultaneously.  
That's a misprint dating back to the Middle Ages:  In a passage
predicting the invention of GUI X-interfaces, the word was originally 
S*elected, but the scribe thought the S* was part of the ornate border.
You have to pray all the time because you can never get a free line.  

Since soul data is archived in heaven/hell and can be 
reloaded temporarily in the form of visions or manifestations from the 
beyond, those with souls (damned or otherwise)  can always look 
forward to an occasional run in ectoplastic mode.

Your hypothesis completely satisfies questions pertaining to having 
one's life flash before one's eyes at death.  
Files are constantly being misplaced and not archived during prayer.
They are copied as part of the final upload, however.  Since 
there's also an automatic delete (forgive and forget), no one ever has 
this experience twice.**

**A side-note:  After this experience, no more messages come from god and 
the last edits are final.  You live "in limbo" until your actual 
shutdown time arrives.  Failure to die usually results from a parity 
error during the final archiving process or failure to get a free line.

>
>Now I'd like to speculate further from my postulate, which I'd like
>to treat as axiomatic until a counterexample is provided.  The type

How can there possibly be two opinions about this?

[...]

>creatures are not among the elected, in fact cannot be saved, as the

Right.  A soul is local storage and a commlink.  Those with souls are 
like PCs with various net access.  Those without are like workstations 
with no local storage beyond memory and some printers.  Archives (souls)
are saved in both Heaven and Hell, as described above.

>
>It also follows that if we could establish some reliable measurement
>as to whether a person has a soul or not (there may be misguided
[...]

Protocols.  How many of the protocols does the soul handle?  Some have 
been posted here already -- "The Bible says", "God loves us" and 
"Heal [privileged command]", etc.,  all initiate metaphysical i/o functions.
Atheists do not have these commands available because they have no souls.
A simple configuration query suffices:
"Let us Pray?"  The unsouled do not close their eyes, kneel, or 
otherwise indicate that a prayer command is being executed.  Sometimes 
there is an error message, sometimes not.

>...without regard to creed, sex, race or soulfulness.

I think the unsouled should benefit from affirmative action; after all, 
we are a minority in the only world we will ever know.  Leave the 
suffering to those who benefit from it.  Suffering files are god's 
favorites, but if they're only going to be used once while the soulless 
suffers in real time, why should the soulless suffer at all?  

All the golf and BBQ we want, I say.

>
[...]
>nor proprietorship for the concept.  I would dearly like to see the
>postulate, as well as its lemmas and theorems discussed by those who
>are most likely to be affected by its veracity.
>

So I agree:
God exists, but without a soul you don't know he's there,
sort of like not having a modem or communications software for your PC.
Or maybe like not having any backup. (Har har har).

I did see a list of some good units once, but only soul-compatible:
Blackmagic and Voodoo are systems that deliver hacker access to 
some of the undebugged experimental curses.  Buddha is an 
open systems interface without much online help.  Xian is basic, 
user-friendly, bulletproof, and can transfer messages from any place at 
any time, unlike some other units that require special 
environments/times/equipment and so forth. If I had a soul, the last 
thing I'd want to be running is an Islam or a Hindu link.  All you 
souled out there ought to look around for old Bacchus unit -- they're 
worth their weight in wine.

I know a lot about this, so if you have any questions just ask.  Good to 
see some of these atheists finally getting things straight at last.  8^)

-jim