Questions tagged [souls]
The animating and vital principle in beings credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. Souls can also refer to the spiritual nature of a being.
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I’m looking for a Sci-fi book where a man’s brain is hijacked by someone trying to prove what human consciousness and the soul is
I read it probably 15 or more years ago now, so it’s not new.
It is a book where a man’s brain is hijacked by someone trying to prove what human consciousness and the human soul is. He is kidnapped, ...
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Short Story. Man sells his soul to the devil who arrives by train. Gets a watch which can stop time in exchange [duplicate]
The man is homeless. The devil arrives by train wearing a conductor's uniform.
The devil offers him any wish he desires in exchange for his soul when he dies. They make the bargain and he wishes the ...
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Young adult book about a girl who discovered that her parents were selling their souls for success
I read this book sometime back in 2012-2014.
The plot started when a family of three moved into an old mansion. They were a loving family despite lacking financial success. Soon though, the girl ...
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Are the Silmarils and the Rings of Power the same basic thing? [closed]
To my understanding, this question roughly translates as: Are fëa (souls) compositionally the same as "holy light" (e.g. from the Two Lamps, Two Trees, Silmarils, etc.)?
In the same way that ...
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Movie about a company that removes people's souls
The movie I watched was about a company that had some sort of machine that would remove people's souls out of their bodies. The soul would appear as a physical object. People went to this company ...
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Movie about a lab where they were trying to trap the souls of dying people
I remember seeing this movie around 1990 and it was already on TV so it could have been a little older.
It was about a lab where they were trying to catch the souls and consciousnesses of dying people....
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Why does Harry think that his parents are gone?
Chapter 16 of Deathly Hallows give us this nice little touch, showing that Harry believes his parents to be well and truly gone:
But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty ...
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Origin of "soul stones" as prison for souls
One central group of artifacts of Diablo is the soul stones, in which the Grand Evils' souls are imprisoned to keep them from reincarnating in Hell.
In the Elder Scrolls universe (the earliest I know ...
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Origin of human souls being literally dark
So, in Dark Souls there is a distinction between Souls, which are white, and humanity, which is dark/black. Humanity is possessed by those who are not hollow.
Now I find that in TES V: Skyrim, there ...
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How does the soul split when making multiple Horcruxes? [duplicate]
My question is regarding the size of the torn soul portions - are all the portions equal size? If yes how could it be? The soul doesn't know how many times it's going to be split.
There are two ways;
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Short story: alien transporter technology extinguishes the soul
This is from a dystopian anthology I read in the early 1970's.
Humans encounter a friendly alien race that shares advanced technologies. The protagonist's daughter (maybe) begs him to not use the ...
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Scientist makes a deal with a demon [duplicate]
A scientist who has led a drab but blameless life decides to sell his soul to a demon, or maybe the Devil himself, in exchange for a task. If memory serves, the demon heads the terrestrial branch of ...
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Can one person have multiple souls?
When Voldemort tried to kill Harry in the first book, a fragment of his soul split off and continued to live in Harry. Harry had his own whole soul and the part of Voldemort's soul in him from then on....
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Why didn't Voldemort's soul attach to any other living thing except Harry?
We know that when the Killing curse rebounded on Lord Voldemort, it split a portion of his soul which latched on to the only other living thing in the room - Harry. My question is, are we to assume ...
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Does the Tree of Souls on Pandora see the future?
How did the woodsprites (atokirina') or seed of the tree of souls know that Jake Sully was so important?
The Tree of Souls (Vitraya Ramunong) is the connection to Eywa and the ancestor's. Ie messages ...
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story about "souls" of deceased people implanted in other people
This was a novel (rather short if I recall correctly) that I read in the 1990s. For the life of me I can't recall author and title, but I would like to read it again.
(It might have been a longish ...
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Man Uploads Consciousness Into Three Computers
I remember reading this book a couple years ago in my school library. It was about a man who uploads his consciousness into three computers. (If I'm not mistaken) One of the uploads is the "control" ...
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Shouldn't Avada Kedavra be just like the Dementor's Kiss?
From what I've seen about it, the way Avada Kedavra kills you is by blowing apart your soul. My evidence for this is in three parts:
When the Killing Curse rebounds on Lord Voldemort the first time, ...
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Why didn't the soul inside Voldemort's body die when he tried to kill Harry?
In Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore says,
"...the Killing Curse rebounded on Lord Voldemort, and a fragment of Lord Voldemort's soul was blasted apart from the whole, and latched itself onto the only ...
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Looking for a book where computers communicate with dead souls
About 12 years ago I read a book about a new form of computing (quantum computer) and the ability to use these to communicate with the soul. I cannot for the life of me remember the title, but I can ...
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Story where a monster asks if he has a soul
I'd like to know the name of a book written no more recent than the year 2000 (probably a bit older.) It includes only two themes that I can recall:
The main character is exiled for not having a ...
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Do Phoenixes have souls?
In Harry Potter universe, do Phoenixes have souls?
Canon based answers only please.
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What happens to spirits/souls of other creatues than Elves and Men after their death?
Silmarillion tells us what happens to the souls of Men and Elves:
... For the Elves die not till tile world dies, unless they are slain or waste in grief (and to both these seeming deaths they are ...
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Does each new Horcrux take half of Voldemort's remaining soul, thus taking a smaller piece each time?
When you commit a murder and create a Horcrux, you split your soul. It’s been talked a lot about Voldemort splitting his soul in 7/8 parts. But I think his remaining soul was not 1/7 or 1/8 but far ...
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What is the functional effect of splitting one's soul?
In Harry Potter we learn that Voldemort has split his soul via the Horcruxes and Slughorn mentions it as if it is a negative thing.
What are the actual problems caused by splitting one’s soul?
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Story about finding if an A.I. has a soul before deciding to turn it off
There was a story many years ago about an artificial intelligence that was created to aid researchers by absorbing knowledge in many fields. It would digest the information for a researcher and see if ...
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Did the souls in the keywork interact with each other before Sirius arrived?
In the Amory Wars, the souls of the deceased are sent to power the Keywork. When a living man, Sirius, enters the Keywork, the souls attempt to possess him.
While Sirius is still in the keywork, two ...
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What is the origin of a phylactery as a soul jar?
The original use of Phylactery is from
Ancient Greek φυλακτήριον phylacterion, form of phylássein, φυλάσσειν meaning “to guard, protect”
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and was originally meant to refer to ‘...
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Could a Necron be reprogrammed?
In the WH40k universe, Necrons were once Necron'tyr who sold their soul's to C'tan an ancient god. He put them into living metal bodies so they could live forever.
However, what I'm not clear on is ...
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What happens if you release a soul from a Horcrux/container?
Pursuant to this question, if you were to free a soul from the Horcrux or another container (i.e. Harry) without destroying the soul, what would happen to it?
This is what appear to happen to ...
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