Baring the Body vs Baring the Soul

[MrBishop]

Which would you find easier. Baring your body in front of complete strangers or baring your soul in front of these same strangers? *Mixed crowd, male/female/young/old/different races/religions*

By baring your soul, I mean talking to them about everything that makes you laugh, cry, shiver and shake, get angry and undure misery etc...

By baring your body, I mean removing all of your clothing and standing there for their inspection, horns, warts and all.

Think about it...aren't I mean?

[Tessar]

Isn't this a little like asking "If you could only let one person live, would it be your mom or your dad?"

[MrBishop]

Originally Posted by Tessar

Isn't this a little like asking "If you could only let one person live, would it be your mom or your dad?"

Kinda...but in this case, you are facing the consequences instead of someone else.

Shame that there's no 'voting' buttons on this version of vbulletin

[Tessar]

Doh--I forgot to answer in my first post because I was so busy being a smart-ass .


I'd rather bear my soul, really. Well, actually it depends on if I had to tell them EVERYTHING about myself :P. I have a FEW secrets I'd rather keep!

[Insidious Rex]

Body clearly. its just skin and flesh. the soul is a near impossibility.

[Lief Erikson]

Originally Posted by Insidious Rex

Body clearly. its just skin and flesh. the soul is a near impossibility.

I think that by "baring the soul," he means answering truthfully and completely every question asked of you. Or just telling the most intimate (to you) parts of your life. I think that answering the question depends a great deal upon what the person's past is. Perhaps a fairly accurate rephrasing of the question might be, "how innocent are you?"

I've grown up pretty sheltered. For me, baring the soul would be easier.

[Valandil]

This sounds like "Truth or Dare"!

[Lief Erikson]

Yeah, really.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

i wouldn't mind gettin up starkers we are far too prudish as a society

[Spock]

Well I vote to view someone else BB and we can rule out LCOU.

[Insidious Rex]

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

I think that by "baring the soul," he means answering truthfully and completely every question asked of you. Or just telling the most intimate (to you) parts of your life. I think that answering the question depends a great deal upon what the person's past is. Perhaps a fairly accurate rephrasing of the question might be, "how innocent are you?"

Id have to disagree. when someone asks me to "bare my soul" it means open up the deepest recesses of my inner most sanctom to other people. not just answering questions. frankly i find this to be a near impossibility because often times most people arent even able to fully face their OWN true self including all their fears and all their biases and all their self doubts and you name it. the psyche does a pretty good job obscuring this stuff from even us so that we can live normal lives and not be bogged down with angst and self loathing or whatever. we percieve our own selves through a lense designed specifically to alter or block our view. thats why theres so many psychiatrists and pyschologists in this world. because sometimes getting at the inner you is a REALLY tough nut to crack. so Im highly dubious of people who stand up and announce that oh sure i can bare my soul a lot easier then i can take my pants off. no sweat. i think they dont understand really what they are saying.

[Tessar]

Lets just ask MrBishop what HE means :-P.

[Butterbeer]

Originally Posted by Spock

Well I vote to view someone else BB and we can rule out LCOU.

well i vote to see Spock!
best, BB

your body is as your body is, generally, you and all else would quickly get used to it and the intital reluctance of standing before them naked would fade i beleive.

baring your soul: wow!

Would you be able to see it and see what sort of state it's in too?
If so i'd go the whole hogg and do the soul: (might as well be naked at this point anyway!) if only to be able to see it as is - it wouldn't be perfect but i beleive it would stand well before my peers or audience in general. if not then i'd now what either spiritually or morally i needed to work on, etc.

im interested by what people mean in this context by the soul and how it'd be viewd though?


(edit: and i agree with I REX re: the soul: if you did do that: whatever the potential intense pychological reaction to seeing your souls stripped naked, if you did confront that, you'd certainly not give a hoot about mere phsyical nakedness: if you were given thatchance either in private or public would you dare do it though? esp when you consider there's a chance ( depending o n various views) this may happen in death or some sort of judgment anyway?

i agree its the ultimate test or trial but IF you could do it would you?
I would, just on the basis i mayfind i have a spiritual Soul Train to catch!

BB

[jellyfishannah]

Baring the body would be way easier for me. (I think! )Once it's over with it's over with. People see bodies all the time. But baring my soul...it would be weird to think that those complete strangers know you and...I don't know...If people could see your soul you may as well be naked, I would think!!!

EDIT: Oh, I said the same thing as Butterbeer. lol

[Nerdanel]

I'd bare my body. I don't see any reason to make another choice.

But I'm not sure exactly what a soul is.. Has someone got a good definition?

[Rían]

Here's a simple definition of what I think a soul is -

I've never met you in person, Nel, so I've never seen your "body". Yet when I see a post is from you, I smile and read it because I like you. I think your "soul" is what I like. It's what makes you, you.

[Nurvingiel]

That is a good definition, except I don't think you can know someone from their Moot posts. (In real life, I'm not a cafe owner who rants about gay rights all the time, I'm a forestry student who talks about trees and food all the time. And draws too much in class.)

If I had to choose between the two, I'd bare my soul. If it's in front of strangers, I don't care what they think anyway. If it was in front of friends, I'd still bare my soul. There are things I've done and thought that I'd rather not share, but even then I'd still have my dignity. I'm not adverse to being naked, but it depends on the situation.

I'm happy to wear nothing but a toque in a sauna, but there's not way I'm going to let a lot of strangers oggle me.

[Spock]

Then there's always the possibility the person baring, hasn't got a soul and is a walk-in.

[Butterbeer]

what's a walk-in?

[Nurvingiel]

A person might be a soul-less walk-in closet?