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"Souls are designed to fit inside a body"

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“Souls are designed to fit inside a body” borrows the calm confidence of engineering language to smuggle in a metaphysical claim: that whatever a soul is, it has specifications. “Designed” implies an author, a plan, a purpose-built container. “Fit” implies measurement, compatibility, maybe even quality control. The line isn’t trying to prove the soul exists; it’s trying to make that existence feel commonsense by framing it as product design. That’s not theology so much as branding.

Coming from Alex Chiu, a businessman better known for fringe longevity claims than for religious writing, the intent reads less like devotion and more like a sales-adjacent worldview. If the soul is built to fit the body, then the body becomes the primary interface for the self: upgrade the hardware, extend the operating time, keep the “occupant” in place. The subtext is quietly anti-mystical. It shrinks the soul from an unknowable, unruly thing into something that behaves, that belongs, that can be managed. A soul that “fits” doesn’t haunt, wander, or overflow; it seats neatly, like a component slotted into a chassis.

Culturally, the quote lands in a late-20th/early-21st-century mood where spirituality gets repackaged in the language of tech and wellness: consciousness as software, the body as platform, death as a solvable engineering problem. Its rhetorical power is in its domesticating move. It offers comfort not by promising heaven, but by promising order: you are not cosmic chaos; you are correctly assembled.

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Alex Chiu (born February 8, 1971) is a Businessman from USA.

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