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Dreamkidd
I am a believer in karma and reincarnation but can someone please explain how there are more humans beings (souls) inhabiting the planet today than 100, 1000, 10000 years prior?
Where do the new souls come from and if we are being reincarnated, wouldn't there only be a set number of souls/bodies to inhabit?
Fraudfinder
reply to post by covertpanther
Something to think about:
Nowhere in the Christian bible does it speak of reincarnation? If so would you please show me?
If reincarnation is true than heaven and hell is empty...... everyone has been reincarnated.
Another thing....... if you reincarnate what happens at the Resurrection? If I am in another body what happens with the first one I had? It does not get to resurrect? Based upon reincarnation theory if I had many lives which one resurrects? I have but one spirit of my true self, so how does that work?
Firefly_
reply to post by covertpanther
I'd like to see the evidence of reincarnation. I'm not talking about people's stories that can be fabricated. I'm talking about real hard scientific evidence that our consciousness is transferred into a fetus or baby after we die.
I am not discounting the possibility, but it seems to me that its more about the ego not being able to let go of existing. One of the main functions of the ego is to ensure survival, and death is the main thing it strives to avoid. It cannot handle the thought of it, so it comes up with possible scenarios that we really have no way of knowing. Occam's razor says it all really. When we die, we are dead. Thats as simple as it gets.
Also, while I agree with the negative control structures in place such as politics and religion, what is the point in life if you cannot enjoy things like music, and sport? These things tap into our very essence of being human, and they are a far more positive way to appease our competitive/predatory nature than hunting or going to war.
Firefly_
reply to post by covertpanther
I'd like to see the evidence of reincarnation. I'm not talking about people's stories that can be fabricated. I'm talking about real hard scientific evidence that our consciousness is transferred into a fetus or baby after we die.
I am not discounting the possibility, but it seems to me that its more about the ego not being able to let go of existing. One of the main functions of the ego is to ensure survival, and death is the main thing it strives to avoid. It cannot handle the thought of it, so it comes up with possible scenarios that we really have no way of knowing. Occam's razor says it all really. When we die, we are dead. Thats as simple as it gets.
Also, while I agree with the negative control structures in place such as politics and religion, what is the point in life if you cannot enjoy things like music, and sport? These things tap into our very essence of being human, and they are a far more positive way to appease our competitive/predatory nature than hunting or going to war.
When we die, we are dead. Thats as simple as it gets.
sparky31
reply to post by anonentity
i use to believe that there was something after we died,really couldn,t believe we lived all these years for when it ended then that was it,nothing.
but it was actually a post on here that changed my mind,someone mentioned that if you wake up and can,t remember a dream then from the moment you dozed off till the min you wake up there is nothing,no memory of nothing so when you die what stops that from happening forever?your brains dead so i,m off the opinion now that when it switches off then thats it for good,no memories,no going anywhere else,tho we would love to believe it.
AlphaX
I believe in reincarnation but I don't feel like we're being forced to reincarnate to be slaves of some sort. I feel like we reincarnate to learn and grow and that each life lived teaches us new things or allows us to teach others. I believe that we choose the life we want to be born into by the things we want to learn and/or teach.
The reason that most people can't remember their past lives is because that would change them as a person in a way that would be detrimental to what they came here to learn. We know exactly what we need to know in order to be able to grow in the way that we need to grow. Some people remember more, some people remember less and it's all based on what you need for the path you intend to take.
For instance: I feel like I have lived many lives and have much more knowledge locked away somewhere that I'm unable to tap into but if I was able to tap into that knowledge, I would be so fundamentally changed by it that any purpose I had here in life would be irrelevant and I would go down a drastically different path that I wasn't meant to pursue.
I didn't learn my beliefs from anyone, like the TC/OP I have come to these conclusions on my own, many of which I've known since I was very young despite coming from a Christian family and never knowing anyone who believed in reincarnation.