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do you get it back when they die?
Perhaps.
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soul splitting as you describe it doesn't work for me. Lets see where I stand right now (since love is across the board for everything): 1soul - part lost when mother died - part lost when father died - part lost when cat died - part lost when cat 2 died - part lost when cat 3 died...... - part lost every time a tree dies - part lost when part of me dies + part gained from gf + parts gained from 2 cats < 1 soul!
In the case of a transsexual/homosexual who falls in mortal love with his mother, father, brother and sister, and commits beastality and loves his pets as his own soul, perhaps thats true. BTW: I cannot imagine how anyone could fall in love with a tree. However, a healthy human being that has't lost his sense of natural desires for the opposite sex will split his/her soul with the partner he/she chooses.
Mark 10:6-9
"But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'
'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
'and the two shall become one flesh'; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. "Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
As you can see, the soul-splitting paradigm is biblical.
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surely all life is interconnected in various ways as we all interact within the bio-system of earth. We don't loose or gain parts when others come and go though! We do gain experiences/knowledge from interaction, but the only thing that makes you whole is yourself!
If you loose an arm in war, how do you distinguish the mutilated arm from the rest of your body? Its not apart of you anymore because its dead and you are alive. If that arm is't freash anymore by the time the corpsmen come, you can say goodbye to it because its not possible to reattach and have it work like before.
If you split your soul with someone, that part of your soul completes her, and her soul completes yours. If you brake up, and move on with your lives, you will keep her soul in you wether you like it or not. Likewise, she is also taking a piece of your soul next to hers. When she moves on and sleeps around with others, your soul will still be there. You are whole. Your soul exists. Just not where its supposed to be. You may have a poor girls soul right now and not realize it. But its there. And everytime she remembers those memories she had with you, its just as if you were on the battle field bleeding perfusely. The space between your arm (soul) and the rest of it hurts because it has been torn. That is why falling in love is't a game that should be lead on by worthless infatuations that end up in the majority of the marriages that also end in divorce.