Recently, a long-time friend of mine loaned me a book to read. This book is by a man named James Van Braagh, who claims to be a "medium" and says that he can communicate with the dead. Besides being one of the most ridiculous scams I have ever heard of, this book brings up a subject I have thought a about over the years: souls, or spirits if you prefer. For starters, What is a soul or spirit? I have no idea. Do you have a soul while you are alive? Or does a soul appear only after you die? If a soul exists separate and apart from your physical body, can your soul inhabit another body? Did your soul exist somewhere before you were born on this planet? How about people who have schizophrenia? Which of their personalities has the "soul"? Or do they all? How long do souls exist? Forever? Since the earth is a few billion years old, did souls come into being when the earth came into being? Will souls cease to exist after the earth is no longer around? These are the types of questions that go through my mind when I consider these types of topics. Are a soul and a spirit the same thing? Can there be good spirits and evil spirits? If there are evil spirits, where do they come from? If a woman miscarries, does that fetus have a soul? And what happens to that soul, if one existed? I am sure I do not have answers to these questions. And I am sure someone who claims to be able to communicate with the dead does not have the answer either. I am pretty sure that when your human body dies, you are just gone. Period. 30 January 2012 ŠLelandRSisk.com

Just think: only four more days left of summer. That is, unless you live in the Southern Hemisphere, then it is only four days until the start of Spring. Makes a difference, huh?

I just erased all the entries for this year. I am gonna start updating this web page a little more often. But for now, no news!