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.
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
Uh, Maud’Dib, if I remember correctly, don’t you have every soul since Adam within you? I think she meant “old souls”.
It means she watches Everwood.
She’s impressed by your pocket watch.
She wants you.
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:
Your shoes are so old that one is missing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In my experience, it’s something teenagers say to other teenagers.
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!!! :eek:
Ogre, tell your girlfriend that some stranger on a message board you post to, named Shit Bug or something, thinks she is so rad! 
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.
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.
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.
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.