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Belief systems

I was talking to my dad the other day about beliefs systems and religion for some reason. My dad is 100% atheist, he doesn't believe in God and thinks that when we die, that's it. We die. I believe quite differently from this take.

For years I claimed to be atheist, but after reading books about ghosts and angels and demons, and specially Platon's theory, my belief system changed. You see, when I was in my last years of high school, I had a subject named History of Philosophy. There, we studied authors such as Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Descartes, Hume, Marx, etc.

One of the authors who stood out the most for me was Plato. You see, Plato had the theory that man, the human being, had two parts: the soul and the body. The body was what linked him to the earth, and it was mortal and had needs. The soul, however, is immortal, travels from one body to another, and is the principle of knowledge. The soul and the mind were one and the same. Plato also believed in a place called the World of Ideas, where souls went when the body died.

In reference to what Plato said, I think the same. I think we all have a soul and a body, and the soul is always the same in our existence; it simply travels from one body to another. Therefore, while I don't believe I had a past life as some of my species, I do think my soul has at some point passed through the lives of other animals, I just don't remember it.

Obviously, I'm not human. Not in my soul, not in my mind, not in my body. And even though I'm not religious, I do believe in reincarnation. And isn't that beautiful? The thought that some day, after we die, we could live in the body we always dreamed for? To walk on all fours, or to have wings, or to have fins and scales, to breathe underwater? To be ourselves, once and for all?