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> The question is always one-sided: always "where do we go when we die?",
> never "where do we come from when we're born?".


Do you know Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of
Early Childhood"?
Too long to quote here, but food for thought, and a beautiful poem.

http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/995/

One problem of course with "where do we come from" is that we come from two
parents. Which contains our soul, the sperm or the egg? Or does each
contain half a soul?

Or is the soul created at the instant of conception, in which case it
couldn't "come from" anywhere.

Perhaps the soul wanders around in search of a couple about to conceive.
Would it be the soul of an ancestor of one of them, or some unrelated being
like an angel?
"But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home". as Wordsworth says.

And what happens to a little soul arriving to be conceived if the parents
are practicing contraception? Are there a lot of lost little souls floating
around these days? Would they join the souls of aborted foetuses in Limbo? I
think the last Pope closed Limbo down a while ago, anyway.

But don't ask me, I'm agnostic. I view the soul as just a function of the
brain, developing as the embryo develops and ending at brain death.