Soulmate

A soulmate is a person with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity. This may involve similarity, love, romance, friendship, comfort, intimacy, sexuality, sexual activity, spirituality, or compatibility and trust.

Historical usage of the concept

Plato

In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soulmates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. He continues that there were three genders: man, woman and the "Androgynous". Each with two sets of genitalia with the Androgynous having both male and female genitalia. The men were children of the sun, the women were children of the earth and the Androgynous were children of the moon, which was born of the sun and earth. It is said that humans had great strength at the time and threatened to conquer the gods. The gods were then faced with the prospect of destroying the humans with lightning as they had done with the Titans but then they would lose the tributes given to the gods by humans. Zeus developed a creative solution by splitting humans in half as punishment for humanity's pride and doubling the number of humans who would give tribute to the gods. These split humans were in utter misery to the point where they would not eat and would perish so Apollo had sewn them up and reconstituted their bodies with the navel being the only remnant harkening back to their original form. Each human would then only have one set of genitalia and would forever long for his/her other half; the other half of his/her soul. It is said that when the two find each other, there is an unspoken understanding of one another, that they feel unified and would lie with each other in unity and would know no greater joy than that.

Soulmate (album)

SOULmate is the fifth and final album by Canadian R&B/soul band jacksoul, released in 2009. It was released shortly after the death of Haydain Neale. All proceeds from the sales of the album will go to the Haydain Neale Family Trust.

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Soulmate (film)

Soulmate is a 2013 British horror film and the feature film directorial debut of Axelle Carolyn. The film had its world premiere on 18 October 2013 at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain. It stars Anna Walton as a woman who travels to the countryside to recuperate after a failed suicide attempt but finds that her cottage is haunted by a ghost.

Soulmate was initially refused a rating certificate by the British Board of Film Classification due to its opening scene and Carolyn was required to edit out portions of the scene.

Synopsis

Devastated by the loss of her husband from a car accident, Audrey (Anna Walton) tries to commit suicide but is saved from death by her sister Alex (Emma Cleasby). She decides that the best course of action would be to stay in a cottage in the secluded Welsh countryside, where she will try to overcome her loss and her personal feelings of guilt about her husband's death. On her first day there Audrey meets local Theresa (Tanya Myers) and her husband Dr. Zellaby (Nick Brimble), who tell her about the cottage's previous owner, Douglas (Tom Wisdom), that died 30 years prior due to suicide. Soon Audrey begins to hear strange noises and discovers a locked door, which Zellaby states has not been opened since Douglas's death. Eventually the noises become too much for her and Audrey forces the door open to discover that it has many various items belonging to Douglas, including letters from his fiancee Nell (Rebecca Kiser). At this point Douglas begins to manifest himself within the house, revealing himself to Audrey. The two are able to converse with one another but cannot physically interact and they begin to form an emotional bond. However as time passes the question arises as to whether or not Douglas is truly a kindred spirit or something more sinister.

Match

A match is a tool for starting a fire. Typically, modern matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper. One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by frictional heat generated by striking the match against a suitable surface. Wooden matches are packaged in matchboxes, and paper matches are partially cut into rows and stapled into matchbooks. The coated end of a match, known as the match "head", consists of a bead of active ingredients and binder; often coloured for easier inspection. There are two main types of matches: safety matches, which can be struck only against a specially prepared surface, and strike-anywhere matches, for which any suitably frictional surface can be used. Some match-like compositions, known as electric matches, are ignited electrically and do not make use of heat from friction.

Etymology

Historically, the term match referred to lengths of cord (later cambric) impregnated with chemicals, and allowed to burn continuously. These were used to light fires and fire guns (see matchlock) and cannons (see linstock). Such matches were characterised by their burning speed i.e. quick match and slow match. Depending on its formulation, a slow match burns at a rate of around 30 cm (1 ft) per hour and a quick match at 4 to 60 centimetres (1.6 to 23.6 in) per minute.

Match (drink)

Match (マッチ, Macchi) is a carbonated Japanese soft drink usually sold in street vending machines. The drink was previously only sold in standard aluminum cans with pop tops, but is now more commonly sold in bottles. The flavor of the drink is described as "fruity" and is quite popular among tourists. Though the drink is far from ubiquitous in Japan, there have been reports of it being sold in Ginza and Yokohama. Match is sold in 300ml, 350ml, 480ml, and 500ml containers.

The song "Locolotion" by the Okinawan group Orange Range was used for a commercial.

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Match (film)

Match is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Stephen Belber, based on his 2004 play of the same name. The film stars Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard. The film was released on January 14, 2015, by IFC Films.

Plot

The movie revolves around Toby, a middle-aged ex-dancer now working as a ballet instructor at Juilliard. He is asked for an interview by husband and wife Mike and Lisa, who claim they are preparing a dissertation on the dance community of the 1960s. Through the course of the interview, Mike's questions keep getting more and more personal, until it is revealed that Mike suspects Toby of being his biological father, as indicated by Mike's mother on her deathbed. When Toby denies this, Mike forcefully takes a DNA sample from Toby and rushes to the police lab where his friend Jim performs a DNA test. Lisa is outraged by Mike's violence and decides to stay and help Toby clean up the mess Mike made. She bonds with Toby as a person and Toby reveals that he knows he is Mike's father, but denied it out of shame as he had abandoned him for his career. He also reveals that he paid a part of Mike's tuition fee for college. When Mike returns to take Lisa, the three have an argument and Toby tells Mike to treat his wife well. After further argument, in which Mike tells Toby he chose to make his life so that no one loves him, the pair leave, but Lisa convinces Toby to tell Mike the truth. He then also invites them for brunch the next day. As the pair head to Toby's house the next day, Mike gets a phone call from Jim informing him that the DNA wasn't a match. When Lisa and Mike tell Toby this, Toby has a nervous breakdown, and politely asks them to let him be alone. As the movie ends, Toby is heard calling his friends to take them up on an offer of a dinner party, indicating that he has realised the need to keep his loved ones closer to himself.