Some Philosophation

Here is an English theme I wrote that I believe is quite clever. So philosophize my shit.

Painting People; Capturing Souls

In many cultures there is the belief that having your picture taken or your portrait drawn or painted captures your soul. The thought of this makes my mind wonder to various questions.
What happens if you paint someone that doesn’t exist? Do you create a new soul? That’s a strange idea. It is said that only God can do things like that. It would seem to me that it would make God angry if you started doing his job. That brings up a more difficult question. If there are over six billion souls on this Earth right now, and there are more people alive right now then there have ever been before, where do all these souls come from? And where do they go after we die? It is said that souls never die. They live on eternally after the body has been a long time decomposed. That’s a lot of souls. Where do they put them all? Heaven, Hell, and Nirvana must have quite a bit of room to house all of them. Maybe we’re all reincarnated from pre-owned souls. Maybe it’s like a lottery system and if you get stuck with a crappy soul, you’re just screwed. That makes me wonder, when did God decide to stop making them? When did He decide there were enough. But, to be perfectly cliché-tastic, I digress.
What happens if you sit down and paint a random picture of a person and it happens to look like someone you’ve never met? Would you accidentally capture their soul? You jerk. Give them back their soul. They probably don’t want it any more after it’s been in your greasy oil painting. Same thing with all those poor folks in the background of your family pictures at Six Flags. Steal your family’s souls all you want but keep your dirty mitts off those others. Jeeze, you’re so insensitive, wielding your soul capturing device all willy-nilly like that.
Rembrandt Van Rijn, Winslow Homer, Paul Gauguin, and Marcel Duchamp all liked capturing souls. All of their paintings that are the subjects of this writing focus on people. They all have drastically different painting styles, use completely different colors and pigments, and paint people in completely different situations, but the focus is the same; people.
One last question, if I take a picture of myself, would I capture my own soul?