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.

Track listing

References

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.

Watchman

Watchman or Watchmen may refer to:

Watchman (law enforcement)

Watchmen were groups of men, usually authorised by a state, government, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement. Watchmen have existed in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally organised policing.

Early origins

An early reference to a watch can be found in the Bible where the Prophet Ezekiel states that it was the duty of the watch to blow the horn and sound the alarm. (Ezekiel 33:1-6)

The existence of watchmen has also been found in the Ottoman, Greek and Egyptian Empires.

The Roman Empire turned the role of a watchman into a profession by creating two organizations:

Watchmen in England

The Problem of the Night

The streets in London were dark and had the shortage and poor quality of artificial light. It had been recognized for centuries that the coming of darkness to the unlit streets of a town brought a heightened threat of danger, that the night cover to the disorderly and immoral, and to those bent on robbery or burglary or who in other ways threatened physical harm to people in the streets and in their houses.

Watchman (hymn)

"Watchman" is an American Christian hymn, published in 1845 in The Southern and Western pocket harmonist.

Lyrics

1. Shall Wisdom cry aloud, And not her speech be heard?
The voice of God's eternal word, De-serves it no regard?

2. "I was his chief delight, His everlasting Son,
Before the first of all his works, Creation, was begun.

3. "Before the flying clouds, Before the solid land,
Before the fields, before the floods, I dwelt at his right hand.

4. "When he adorn'd the skies, And built them, I was there,
To order when the sun should rise, And marshal every star.

5. "When he pour'd out the sea, And spread the flowing deep;
I gave the flood a firm decree, In its own bounds to keep.

6. "Upon the empty air The earth was balanced well;
With joy I saw the mansion, where The sons of men should dwell.

7. "My busy thoughts at first On their salvataion ran,
Ere sin was born, or Adam's dust Was fashion'd to a man.

8. "Then come, receive my grace, Ye children, and be wise;
Happy the man that keeps my ways; the man that shuns them dies."