The Soul Mate

Plato defines Soul mate
In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soul mates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces, but Zeus feared their power and split them all in half, condemning them to spend their lives searching for the other half to complete them.

Theosophy defines Soul mate

According to Theosophy, whose claims were modified by Edgar Cayce, God created androgynous souls—equally male and female. Later theories postulate that the souls split into separate genders, perhaps because they incurred karma while playing around on the Earth, or "separation from God." Over a number of reincarnations, each half seeks the other. When all karmic debt is purged, the two will fuse back together and return to the ultimate.

Current usage of the concept
In current usage, "soulmate" usually refers to a romantic partner, with the implication of an exclusive lifelong bond.

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I think the concept of a soul mate is just an example of mass cognitive dissonance disorder. The notion that everyone has someone out there waiting just for them is feeble minded.

There are over seven billion (7,000,000,000) people on earth, and yet somehow people think they have each have their own special preselected mate living down the street and they will meet, how? Some sort of higher power? I say there is no god and even if there was it wouldn't have any semblance of involvement in getting human being laid.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics the current world sex ratio is 105 boys to 100 girls alive at the moment. So how does this affect the soul mate paradox? Well 2.4% of the world's population are males with no females left for them, so what? Does that mean the approximately 16,800,000,000 males are destined to be homosexual and soul mate matches to each other? But that brings us back to the previous problem of geography, it's not like all sixteen million males are all in the same cluster so how are they each going to meet each other. And if soul mates are the work of god, it was my understanding Christians look down on the homosexual community so that doesn't work either.


Let's take a look at the psychological ramifications of the soul mate concept. It is my belief most men and woman are floozies, promiscuous little fiends solely driven by an innate carnal desire. Society has somewhat developed anti-promiscuous ideology that shuns the whores and harlots from the community but although they have all but been abolished in modern day due to the overwhelming flood of media and it's dogs, traces of the stigma still reside in society, so individuals try to justify their whorish behaviors (for lack of a better term) by explaining they are looking for their soul mate which is an impossibility.

Narcissism will be my final talking point today. We are creating a vastly narcissistic society, and possibly the greatest feeling of power comes from power over a fellow human being. Individuals use the concept of soul  mates to lure unsuspecting victims into a false sense of security and intimacy, betray the other half and feed off the misery that comes from crushing a fellow human being reality. It this way, everyday people can be classified as sociopaths, the same as stalkers and murderers but are not prosecuted because they are not considered violent crimes. I suppose it is just part of socialization, put yourself out there and you will be hurt, it's not against the law because one of the individuals are free to leave the union when ever they so wish. But for the social predator, soul mates are simple another weapon they can use to feed off the suffering that comes from hurting someone that trusted them.