The soul is often conceived as the non-physical, immaterial essence or principle that animates a living being and is believed to be immortal. It's seen as the core of who we are, a unique expression of a divine or universal energy, and often thought to exist beyond the physical body.
This is from Wikipedia:
The soul is the immaterial aspect or essence of a living being. It is typically believed to be immortal and to exist apart from the material world. The three main theories that describe the relationship between the soul and the body are interactionism, parallelism, and epiphenomenalism. Anthropologists and psychologists have found that most humans are naturally inclined to believe in the existence of the soul and that they have interculturally distinguished between souls and bodies.
So, Trump fans, you don’t have to worry about Dear Leader succumbing to devastating dementia. If the Walter Reed doctors who examined and assessed him are responsible, they would have tested his basic cognitive functioning. I have no reason to believe that they would outright lie and say there were no signs of dementia if they determined that there were.
Despite my friend Sabrina Haake doubling down in her second Substack (also published on Rawstory) that she thinks Trump has dementia (I offered a countray view of this here), I don’t see indications of this. Frankly, I am tired of providing my arguments.
What struck me the most was more evidence of Trump’s self-aggrandizing lunacy. I use the word “lunacy” in the non-clinical sense: extremely foolish, eccentric, or irrational behavior; extreme folly or eccentricity. However, I also see this statement as showing that in some ways he is more normal than his critics want to admit.
What Trump apparently means to convey in his statement about doctors concluding that he has a good soul is that they could tell that he’s a good person. Mister Nice Guy… just ask Bill Maher who, having met with Trump, thinks he’s just a hail-fellow. (I refer you to my real life friend Dianna Jackson’s Substack about this: Pretending It’s Normal Bill Maher Gets Played.)
Here’s an excerpt:
But last night while sitting on a stool like a pigeon, he gave a report to his viewers about his two and one half hours of Presidential time he squandered at the visit. Per Maher, Trump was nice, funny, charming, generous. And this visit of his was happening at the same time that he (Trump) was ruining the world’s economy and defying court orders. WTF? A comedian meets up with a wannabe dictator and all is hunky dory. Yeah. Right.
This is the comment I posted on her Hickups Happen Substack:
He's now a shill for Trump being the kind gentle leader of the Gestapo.
I have to wonder if Maher knew that according to some historians Hitler could be charming too? https://medium.com/@pagany/hitler-the-soft-hearted-side-no-one-talks-about-570c959992ca Why didn't Maher use this chance of confront Trump on his sadism and on the human suffering he has caused and continues to cause?
What this tells me is that there’s a side of Trump, like the parts of Hitler and many despots, which no matter how monstrous they are that when relaxed and with people they feel comfortable with they expose a kinder gentler self. Unless they suffer from a major depressive disorder they have the same human need to chill out and have a good laugh.
Another way to put it is that people who unleash evil upon the world may take a break from plotting ways to make their enemies live in terror (investigate treasonous Miles Taylor and Kris Krebbs or turn the southern border into a 60 foot wide military base for example.)
They may kick back, have a few drinks (Diet Cokes for one at least) and have a few laughs with their cohorts.
For any Trump supporter who may have stumbled onto this, you should rest assured that your leader assured us that some of the top doctors in the country diagnosed him as having a good soul.
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