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  While it might be unwise to say the soul ages, it might be wiser to say the soul matures with age. The longer we live, the more things we experience. The soul retains all of our experiences in life, and through memory can replay those experiences. When we experience something happy, the soul remembers it, so in a way we can say the soul is shaped by the good and not so good experiences in life. The human soul has the capacity to experience and understand God, and this is what makes us different from other living beings like plants, and animals.   When the soul learns new things, it creates new memories and new experiences, so this would be the closest thing to it aging. Although it is proper to say that when we are in a physical body, the person is a whole being only as a body and a soul, so in this sense, the whole person ages. A human being isn’t just a soul or a body, they are both. So what happens at death is an unnatural experience because the soul is separated from the...

  What we do in a time of crisis greatly reflects our own personal values and beliefs. In a crisis, things happen almost way to fast, in that we almost default to who we really are and what we were brought up to believe. It’s hard if not impossible to reevaluate your faith, or beliefs when the crisis hits, it’s sad but it’s true, and when the crisis passes we usually are the same in our beliefs as when the crisis hits. This doesn’t mean that there is nothing we can do to get through a difficult time or crisis, how we act in it, usually determines the kind of outcome we have after it.   We have a role to play in our own crisis, and of course so do other people, this is called crisis intervention. However, how we respond inwardly and if possible outwardly usually determines the outcome. It may seem like the outcome is fixed, but I would say in a crisis don’t be too concerned about the desired outcome, just play your role as a human being as best you know how, because in the end ...