{"id":36,"date":"2002-06-25T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-25T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=36"},"modified":"2002-06-25T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-25T17:21:00","slug":"random-thought-20000216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-06\/36-random-thought-20000216","title":{"rendered":"Random Thought #20000216"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The following is from my Little Notebook, entry date: February 16, 2000. I can&#8217;t remember if I&#8217;ve used this in The Zero Card or any other publication.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(inspired by reading <i>Age of Adventure<\/i>, Introduction page 34)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Conservation of Matter\/Energy as it applies to souls<br \/>\n&#8212; Given that there is in the world a finite number of souls&#8211; and that at one time not all souls in the world were actively incarnated so that there were, in reserve, a certain portion of that finite number of souls&#8211; that as the human population of the world increases&#8211; it has doubled to six trillion in the last 30 years&#8211; the strain on the pool of souls also increases such that some people end up sharing souls which are subdivided&#8211; perhaps this is what causes the feeling of being &#8220;soul mates&#8221; with someone?&#8211; and therefore a person only has a mere portion of a soul and perhaps some people have so little or no soul at all&#8211; this is an explanation as to why there is so much evil in the world and that it seems to get worse as the world population rises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from my Little Notebook, entry date: February 16, 2000. I can&#8217;t remember if I&#8217;ve used this in The Zero Card or any other publication. (inspired by reading Age of Adventure, Introduction page 34) &#8212; Conservation of Matter\/Energy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-06\/36-random-thought-20000216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}