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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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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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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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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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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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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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, φυλ��σσειν meaning “to guard, protect”
— Wikipedia
and was originally meant to refer to ‘...
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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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