Some girl just told me that I have "an old soul". What the heack does that mean?

[Muad'Dib]

I am not too clear. My response was somewhere along the lines of "Yeah baby, that's, um, deep." Best I can figure is that I gave this impression because I am smart and moody. Don’t know if that quite qualifies me for ‘old soul’ status.

[Ephemera]

My wild ass guess is that it means you're intelligent and/or wise.

[Muad'Dib]

Originally Posted by Aesiron

My wild ass guess is that it means you're intelligent and/or wise.

But not wise enough to double check the spelling of my title.

*hangs head in embaresment, emberesmant, emb.... shame*

[Snag]

Uh, Maud'Dib, if I remember correctly, don't you have every soul since Adam within you? I think she meant "old souls".

[Tangent]

Originally Posted by Muad'Dib

Some girl just told me that I have "an old soul". What the heack does that mean?

It means she watches Everwood.

[Necro Romancer]

She's impressed by your pocket watch.

[aaslatten]

She wants you.

[Reader99]

she may be telling you she thinks you are spiritually advanced. or she may think you are the reincarnated spirit of someone else. either way, she most likely was paying you a compliment:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

[Sterra]

Your shoes are so old that one is missing.

[Miller]

You're soul is ratty and out of fashion. You need one of those flashy new souls all the kids have these days. Preferably something designer label, if you can afford it.

[Ogre]

I've been told the same thing by more than one New Agey type. I assume it derives from the fact that I'm curmudgeonly and cynical, I have a very low tolerance for any chicanery or scammery, and that I empathize with characters like Harvey Pekar and Charles Bukowski. I generally reject pop culture out of hand, and I value philosophy more than New Age "spiritualism."

Course, the fact that I utterly reject New Age-ism means that my response to the "old soul" comment is usually rather terse and not very polite.

[Ogre]

I meant to also post that my girlfriend is exactly like me in that regard. She has a friend who's a head-in-the-clouds crystal-worshippin' pyramid power chick. Upon learning that my girlfriend was a quilter (having made many of them over the last few years,) she told my gf that "You have such an old soul."

Her response?

"Shut the fuck up, you loony bitch."



They're friends. They talk to each other like that.

It bears mentioning that shortly thereafter, New Age girl signed up for a quilting class.

[umop ap!sdn]

Reader99 is close. "Old soul" is generally thought (by those of us who believe in such things) to mean one who has incarnated many times. Smart, moody yet logical people who are set in their ways are likely to be called that.

[Profane]

In my experience, it's something teenagers say to other teenagers.

[Starguard]

That's strange

I used to know this girl that for some reason, thought that I was Chinese and that my name was Haafuul.

Everytime she saw me, she kept yelling Hey Fool!!!

[Dung Beetle]

Ogre, tell your girlfriend that some stranger on a message board you post to, named Shit Bug or something, thinks she is so rad!

[JoeSki]

Heh. I remember once a girl told me I didn't have a soul.

It had to do with me not having any dreams (or none that I could remember upon waking up anyways), and her being wican.

[mouthbreather]

Originally Posted by Ogre

I've been told the same thing by more than one New Agey type. I assume it derives from the fact that I'm curmudgeonly and cynical, I have a very low tolerance for any chicanery or scammery, and that I empathize with characters like Harvey Pekar and Charles Bukowski. I generally reject pop culture out of hand, and I value philosophy more than New Age "spiritualism."

Course, the fact that I utterly reject New Age-ism means that my response to the "old soul" comment is usually rather terse and not very polite.

Yeah, yeah. Ogre TALKS a good game but I'm tired of him hiding behind this false persona on the internet.

Last week, I tried to drag him out for anight of Bukowski-inspired debauchery and he keep insisting that I sit down on the couch until he was done reading his tea leaves, and then he said we weren't going anywhere until did a tarot reading. I kept sneaking away and taking hits from my flask until I got so loaded that I took his runes and crashed through his coffee table, "DOMINO, MUTHAFUCKA!" style. Ogre then cried and said that the table was made from a Tree that was infused with Native American spirits and that they had all escaped.

I left shortly after that.

[Hamish]

This isn't exclusively a New Age thing -- actually, I think it predates the New Age movement. My mother's family used it, and that's before the sixties, at any rate.

I don't think it referred to reincarnation exactly, not the way they used it. I think it simply meant a soul that was already "old and wise" when the person was born. It was generally used to refer to children who were unusually mature and kind-hearted.

[Count Blucher]

Your toes are poking through your Nikes and your general shoe-aroma is managing to beat back the scent of the 55-gallon drum of cologne that you dumped on yourself before the date. Buy a new pair & bury the old pair. Deep.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Muad'Dib ---it means she's into reincarnation, & other creepy-weirdy-ass stuff, so unless she wants to sleep with you right now, you need to drop her like she was a six-inch putt.

If she does want to sleep with you, do her & drop her like a bad habit afterwards.

Priorities, ya know.

[Bobby Roberts]

Originally Posted by Muad'Dib

I am not too clear. My response was somewhere along the lines of "Yeah baby, that's, um, deep." Best I can figure is that I gave this impression because I am smart and moody. Don’t know if that quite qualifies me for ‘old soul’ status.

It means that she wants to appear to be intelligent and mysterious by using meaningless psychic crap that she probably doesn't totally understand.

Basically, if she wants to be with someone with an "old soul" and she likes you, then she says that you have an old soul. If she'd rather be with a "new soul", then she doesn't like you. So essentially she's just arbitarily labelling you to match what she wants.

[Götterfunken]

I was told this once before, and at the time felt flattered.

However, now that I'm older, I realize that everyone likes to think that they have an "old soul" (whether that means literally, as in reincarnation, or more figuratively, as in "wise beyond one's years").

I once heard Jamie Gleicher on MTV's "Rich Girls" insist that she and Ally Hilfiger are old souls--indeed, she believes she's probably the reincarnation of either Benjamin Franklin or Muhammad Ali.

If the term can be applied to her, then it's obviously worthless.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Or maybe she's a cobbler, & wants to fix your boots.

[Shirt Ninja 13]

Originally Posted by LunaSea

In my experience, it's something teenagers say to other teenagers.

Yeah, that's when I heard it, the most: around about the age of 15. Usually it was in response to cynicism and/or skepticism on my part, although once it came up during an amateur palm-reading. "Wow, you've had more lives than Jesus," was the remark that preceded the "old soul" comment, at that point.

I think it's silliness, personally, but that's just me.

*bamf*

[Ogre]

Yeah, yeah. Ogre TALKS a good game but I'm tired of him hiding behind this false persona on the internet.

Last week, I tried to drag him out for anight of Bukowski-inspired debauchery and he keep insisting that I sit down on the couch until he was done reading his tea leaves, and then he said we weren't going anywhere until did a tarot reading. I kept sneaking away and taking hits from my flask until I got so loaded that I took his runes and crashed through his coffee table, "DOMINO, MUTHAFUCKA!" style. Ogre then cried and said that the table was made from a Tree that was infused with Native American spirits and that they had all escaped.

I left shortly after that.

Flask, my ass. I'm not sure how you can get whacked out of your skull on that yohimbi-rooibos organic berry infusion crap mouthbreather carries around in his "flask" (really a plastic Thermos with a Phish sticker,) but he manages it somehow. I think it has something to do with the mold growing in it, since his filthy hippie ass hasn't washed it since Reagan was in office.

Anyway, I asked him if he wanted a chance to win back the last poker money I took from him. Imagine my surprise when he wanted to play seven-card stud with a Tarot deck. Then he keeled over and busted my coffee table with his face. Of course I was pissed.

I dropped him off at a sailor's dive down by the waterfront, with a sign around his neck that said "Swabbies are pussies."

Seemed funny enough at the time, but then, gin makes me a little mean.

[Genghis Bob]

Originally Posted by Hamish

. . . I think it simply meant a soul that was already "old and wise" when the person was born. It was generally used to refer to children who were unusually mature and kind-hearted.

That's my understanding also. My son was called an "old soul" when he was ten years old and the only child participating in an adult Tai Chi class. He was unusually reserved, quiet and contemplative for a ten year old.

[mouthbreather]

Originally Posted by Ogre

Flask, my ass. I'm not sure how you can get whacked out of your skull on that yohimbi-rooibos organic berry infusion crap mouthbreather carries around in his "flask" (really a plastic Thermos with a Phish sticker,) but he manages it somehow. I think it has something to do with the mold growing in it, since his filthy hippie ass hasn't washed it since Reagan was in office.

Anyway, I asked him if he wanted a chance to win back the last poker money I took from him. Imagine my surprise when he wanted to play seven-card stud with a Tarot deck. Then he keeled over and busted my coffee table with his face. Of course I was pissed.

I dropped him off at a sailor's dive down by the waterfront, with a sign around his neck that said "Swabbies are pussies."

Seemed funny enough at the time, but then, gin makes me a little mean.

This is a total fucking fabrication and I won't sit here and be made a fool of.


To set the record straight: I covered up the Phish Sticker on my thermos with a Moe. sticker a couple months ago.

[Spiff]

Originally Posted by Skopo

believes she's probably the reincarnation of either Benjamin Franklin or Muhammad Ali.

A good trick, considering that Muhammad Ali is still alive.

And it would be a good trick even if Ali were dead, considering that this would involve some sort of a "soul swapping" (or maybe Ali's soul would be "assimilated" á la the Borg) rather than a strict reincarnation (which is dubious in the first place).

BTW, Abe Vigoda is still alive, too, and today is his birthday.

[SpoilerVirgin]

Funny story about souls old and young.

Years ago I worked with a woman who believed in reincarnation, had traveled to Tibet many times, etc. She told me that I was a young soul, and explained that I experienced the world as if I was doing everything for the first time without having lived through it all before. Although I don't believe in reincarnation, this particular description did really match my attitude toward life, and ever since then, when discussions have turned to old souls, I've always explained that I am a young soul, still on my first incarnation.

Fast forward a few years, and I have a boss who's a real jerk who keeps claiming different backgrounds and interests depending on the woman he's trying to impress at the moment. One day he asks me what I know about old souls. I tell him my story about how I am a young soul. The next day I hear him on the phone to some new conquest, telling her my story word for word, except he's claiming that it's all about him -- he's the one with the young soul and the fresh outlook toward life.

I guess if I were an older soul, I would have know better than to feed him B.S. to use on unsuspecting women.

[Gatopescado]

Originally Posted by SpoilerVirgin

I guess if I were an older soul, I would have know better than to feed him B.S. to use on unsuspecting women.

[Chris Rock] Just tryin' to get himsef a little pussy! Ain't nothin' wrong wit dat! [/Chris Rock]

Any line that works is a "Good Line".

[Götterfunken]

[quote=Spiff]A good trick, considering that Muhammad Ali is still alive.
QUOTE]That's what I thought, too.

Of course, according to Jamie, Ben Franklin is the guy who invented the lightbulb.

If Jamie is an old soul, then God help us young souls.

[CadburyAngel]

[quote=Skopo]

Originally Posted by Spiff

A good trick, considering that Muhammad Ali is still alive.
QUOTE]That's what I thought, too.

Of course, according to Jamie, Ben Franklin is the guy who invented the lightbulb.

If Jamie is an old soul, then God help us young souls.

Perhaps Jamie's soul is so old, it's gone senile.

"Oh, YOU have an old soul? My soul dribbles applesauce from its toothless gums, beeyotch!"

[yosemite]

Originally Posted by Tangent

It means she watches Everwood.

Yes, it sounds to me that that pretty much is all it means.

No need to overanalyze this. I doubt that she has.

[DocCathode]

Muad'Dib

It means you should tell her about the waters of your homeland. It means you may be the Lisan Al Gaib, the Voice From The Outer Worlds. Or the Laserium Al Dilah, the Bright Light Of The Italian Lovesong.

Or even the Kumkwat Hagendasz, The One Whose Fruit-Like Soul Is Tempered To A Soft Consistency!

[Khadaji]

I've been told that I have an old soul as well, and I am relatively intelligent and somewhat dark and moody, so I suppose that there is a pattern.

To the best of my knowledge, I am brand new.

[Cervaise]

A brand new vampire, that is.

[neofishboy]

Holy shit! It's Abe Vigoda's birthday? Damn!

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to properly celebrate....I mean, Bob Marley's (Feb. 6) was easy......but Abe Vigoda...?

Maybe we should all go hide guns behind toilet tanks or something....

[lisacurl]

Originally Posted by Muad'Dib

My response was somewhere along the lines of "Yeah baby, that's, um, deep."

The correct response to that is always, "Does it make you horny, baby?"

[HPL]

Originally Posted by Shirt Ninja 13

Yeah, that's when I heard it, the most: around about the age of 15. Usually it was in response to cynicism and/or skepticism on my part, although once it came up during an amateur palm-reading. "Wow, you've had more lives than Jesus," was the remark that preceded the "old soul" comment, at that point.

3(maybe 2)?

The Jesus comment dosen't make a lot of sense

[zephyrine]

I once told a friend of mine that the man I was seeing had an old soul. She was impressed and immediately revised her opinion of him (she didn't realise that the translation of "he has an old soul" meant "I know you think he's an immature prat and I'm a fool for hanging around with him, so I'll say something to make you shut up". For the record, I knew he was an immature prat, but I loved him anyway).

Take it from me, Muad'Dib, she wants to get into your pants.

[DocCathode]

Originally Posted by neofishboy

Holy shit! It's Abe Vigoda's birthday? Damn!

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to properly celebrate....I mean, Bob Marley's (Feb. 6) was easy......but Abe Vigoda...?

Maybe we should all go hide guns behind toilet tanks or something....

The proper way to celebrate is to tell anybody who will listen that, despite his stage name, Abe is not Italian.

He's Jewish.

[elfkin477]

Originally Posted by yosemitebabe

Yes, it sounds to me that that pretty much is all it means.

No need to overanalyze this. I doubt that she has.

Nuh uh... Maybe she watched Dawson's Creek too. Joey used to be called an "old soul"

[AskNott]

If you laugh when somebody calls you an "old soul," then you are a "merry old soul," like old Nat King Cole.

What? Oh. OK, scratch the "Nat" part.

[Dogface]

Whenever that line was used on me, there was a desire for serious snugglebunnies.

Your mileage may vary.