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Originally posted by Wookiep
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by Shark_Feeder
You do realize if you reincarnate it means you failed in your previous life in some way...
It means you have more learning to do before you can progess.... reincarnation is going backwards my friend
Can you deny reincarnation exists?
S&F for the thread
edit on 18-3-2013 by Akragon because: (no reason given)
I would have to respectfully disagree with this. Unless a human being can achieve absolute perfection, there is ALWAYS more to learn. It's in my opinion that 1 life is just a blink of an eye and no-where near long enough to learn and achieve all which needs to be...specially when it comes to the overall lesson being, "love".. Trying to say that one "failed" so they need to "learn more" is hardly a step backwards in my humble opinion.edit on 18-3-2013 by Wookiep because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Akragon
Originally posted by Wookiep
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by Shark_Feeder
Perhaps you are right...
You'll have to pardon me with that if you will... I've been debating reincarnation for the past few days...
Maybe i'm getting a bit defensive...
A star for you
Originally posted by solongandgoodnight
reply to post by adjensen
at least watch the first two videos
Originally posted by Akragon
Would you say that a 5-6 year old is already "exposed" to a pre-existing culture in this case?
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by adjensen
Do you know exactly what the nature of dreams are?
Originally posted by adjensen
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by adjensen
Do you know exactly what the nature of dreams are?
I'm not a psychologist, but there is an obvious problem with believing that they are sourced from "past lives" -- the population is ever increasing, indicating millions who cannot be reincarnated, because there aren't enough dead people to account for them, and yet we don't simultaneously have millions of people who never dream.
Originally posted by Akragon
I don't understand why people use that argument...
As far as we've found there is no intelligent life other then us in the universe... but is that a rational position anymore considering we do know how big our universe is... and theres possibilities of other ones as well according to string theory
Originally posted by Akragon
Now if sometime in the future we do encounter some alien species... and one of them recalls living a past life here...
Would he be just some alien kook too?
Originally posted by adjensen
Originally posted by Akragon
Would you say that a 5-6 year old is already "exposed" to a pre-existing culture in this case?
- She doesn't say that she was 5-6 years old when she had those dreams, rather that she was dreaming of being a 5-6 year old
- They are dreams, not memories
- Yes, there is no reason that a young child (even one who was five or six) could not have been exposed to something related to the Blitz on television
Originally posted by adjensen
I'm not a psychologist, but there is an obvious problem with believing that they are sourced from "past lives" --
yes that has for sure crossed my mind many times. but i will say this video got me thinking, and with my own personal experiences i believe reincarnation to be as real as you and me in the here and now. i will say i'm glad that you posted this because it is very possible this was faked, but it is also very possible that it was not. i guess that in itself makes it interesting.
Originally posted by CJCrawley
reply to post by solongandgoodnight
You obviously believe in reincarnation, and that's fine.
But you do realise those videos you put up are probably faked?
Think about it: some folk decide to make a programme about reincarnation.
Clearly they wish to convey the message that reincarnation is real, so, even if no fakery is employed, they are bound to only show details that support their belief and ignore stuff that doesn't support it.
But I think it highly likely that they will fake at least some of it, because at the end of the day they are promoting an idea and a product (the programme).
Suppose they flew those women all the way from Australia to Europe and their past-life memories suddenly deserted them? Do you suppose they would show this on the documentary?
No one should form their beliefs on the strength of a TV programme/documentary.
Regardless of the subject matter, they are all biased in favour of the product they are promoting.
pretty good points i suppose, but in the videos i don't recall many misses at all if there were any. having said that, if you are not willing to look at the possibility of past lives, you will not see them. right now your mind is closed to it so you will never see it. which is fine. believing in something you don't quite understand can sometimes feel like a loss of control and that can be terrifying. thanks for your comments.
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by solongandgoodnight
Adjensen is right, you lost me at hypnotic regression.
These are personal accounts, nothing more and convincing only to those willing to indulge in circular reasoning. In order to show that reincarnation happens we need some kind of evidence that human beings can both survive death in a non-physical form and that this non-physical "substance" or soul can be passed on to a new person.
The human imagination is an incredible thing, when prompted it is easy to summon up names, dates, places and events that never actually happened to the person. Hunting down these details to find that they were true would be like cold reading, you are astounded by the hits and ignore all the misses. The details are lost or smudged by the malleability of memory.