Elimination of the Soul

it might be useful to help settle centuries of people getting their panties in a twist over nitpicks, to consider that souls/consciousness belong to another aspect of existence, analogous to the physical universe of matter, and indeed the miracle is the interaction and connection between soul-stuff and matter-energy stuff. Soul-stuff would have its own analogous rules of operation as we call the laws of physics for matter-energy-stuff. Soul-stuff and matter-energy-stuff don’t get to directly interact with each other except through that miracle which we could well attribute to god. There wouldnt be a single discrete soul anymore than there is a single discrete rock, that absolutely must be only that rock forever and ever. the rock can be split apart, or can be built into something bigger, what’s important is that as a basic physical level the rock’s matter is moved around, rearranged, etc, but not destroyed, though its configuration can be radically altered and functionally parts of the rock might end up being part of very separate later structures we’d consider entirely distinct.
Likewise soul-stuff. Just as our bodies take in food, water, air, etc, and build ourselves, maintain ourselves, constantly regenerate ourselves, and this collection of stuff we call our body, and as long as we manage to stay alive this continues, and once we fail to keep this up we start falling apart and then die, well, likewise with the soul- from the first spark of life a soup begins to form, but it grows, gathers soul-stuff, is nurtured and fed by soul-stuff from those close byt, parents, family, society, everything- , stronger more brilliant souls are better at taking in soul-stuff and building better structures out of it. Just as some sronger phsyical parts of our bodies can last for centuries or millennia or eons, say bones or teeth etc, so can tough strong parts of our souls long outlast the rest of the structure. If the connection between soul-structure and physical-structure is broken the strucutres start falling apart. Some physical structures get by with no (apparent?) soul-connection. We’d generally consider these to not be living things. Somewhere the spark of life exists, and exactly where one draws the line, well, maybe it’s a spectrum- do self-replicating proteins have any connection to soul-stuff, even a tiny tiny bit? maybe?
what it might make sense to consider then is that where any connection between soul-stuff and physical-stuff occurs, this connection fosters complexity and organization at a higher level- and we recognize that connection and call it life. Humans are thus far the most complex things we’ve encountered. Where does god fit into all this? god makes that connection possible. We have been given the gift but it is not to us to give it on to anything else- we can make very fancy machines but they’re still just rocks- even complex rocks sustained at great expense by external support (mechanically, thermodynamically, etc) – these rocks have no connection to soul-stuff and never will.
When we die, our soul suffers disintegration the same as our bodies- which material also gets recycled back into the environment. Our biological matter will be reconfigured by all kinds of other living things (or maybe not, who knows, i might fall into a volcano or something) and the bits of our soul might drift about according to whatever physics of soul-stuff is in force which we havent really figured out, and other growing spirits out there might attract, grab, and take in tose bits, building them into their own souls just as we did as we grew up and built ours.

This then settles both the childishly naive interpretation that specific individual souls of specific personalities stay around forever, the equally simplistic idea of single individual souls reincarnating, the obvious problems of conservation and quantity of those, it also explains how as we have so grossly overpopulated our physical being as a species, to go from being noble and brilliant creatures, to being almost insects in some kind of hive (yuck!), tha5t a large number of these people have been, essentialy, starved of soul-stuff. Just as individuals in a population are some stronger or quicker or better formed than others, and thus quicker to get to the food and water, while the others atrophy, so with our souls. weve filled the world up with yeast-growth people, who the majority of them have been eating up miore and more soul-stuff from an essentially finite pool. Most of those spirits were not strong enough to feed themselves and for lack of nourishment atrophied even worse. Theyre still lingering, but just as the majority of listless near-starving animals in a drought linger. Worse, eveil and graspoing peoople have probably figured enough of this out to deliberately try to prevent the majority of those people from acquiring, or properly structuring, or retaining, or otherwise thriving, with their spirit-stuff, to gorge themselves on more of it. Anything, including the simple procedure of straight-off killing a person, will ‘free up’ some amount of soul stuff which maybe these monsters think they can grab. A glutton in the spiritual world, a parasite that devours everything, a spiritual tapeworm, is the same as a glutton, a parasite, a tapeworm, in the physical realm.
the natural mechanism of collapse is perfectly suited to get us back into balance. The monsters of course have no sene of balance and on the one hand want it all for themselves, and on the other think they have some secret powers which allow them to do this and somehow escape the laws of physics (the laws in both realms, the material and the spiritual) to rival god.

is this concept christian? certainly not. though i would posit that the vast majorirty of christian (or buddhist, or whatever) doctrine is entirely orthogonal to this explanation of the functioning of the soul-matter interface. That god takes an interest in his creation for ehatever reasons motivate him, and finds ways to communicate advice or hints, is an entirely different matter to how the basics work. That the majority of religious dogma is simply made by humans, inspired yes but always fallible and prone to limitations of persepctive, knowledge, predisposition, and so on, still human, is enough to show how we have had so many god-inspired people proclaiming so many different messages. They proclaim mainly their own message, and so foten these things collide with agendas of power and ego here in human society and any pispired message is under great poressure to be perverted to serve more immediate and smallminded purposes.

so this concept is not christian, but i think a christian could square these thoughts with the basics of christianity, keeping in mind that much of the dogma of christianity has also been abused (so much that christians can hardly agree on many points, much less followers of other faiths)
does this make me less a christian than someone who reels in horrow from my words? hard to say.
i developed this idea a long time ago and found a way to reconcile it with my christian faith. i think it’s safe to say that much of scripture and the philosophy built around it is the work of men, inspired men, but nonetheless men. it is instructive, and some parts certainly seem to be more instructive than others, and the large part of the actual practice of our faith is in trying to interpret and apply that intruction to the living of our lives.
one instruction that seems to be universal for all humans should be the obvious tendency to use the faculties of reason and intelligence we have been given to ponder the nature of things.

ok this is getting long.