Reincarnation: What do you believe?

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Judi.D

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Last night while eating dinner with friends, we got in a discussion about reincarnation. We were discussing it and Dr. Brian Weiss and his book, Many Lives, Many Masters. Oddly enough this morning when I turned on the TV, Dr. Weiss was being interviewed by Oprah. I am curious what you all think about reincarnation. :confused:
 

Ina..if you do come back, it surely would be for much greater things, you've already paid your dues, honey!

No expectations here.. anything that happens past this moment is a surprise.
 
I am not sure I would want to come back again,once I was reunited with family again in the next life.
 
Oz....., I use to believe that old saying that told us, " you'll get what's coming to you end the end." But, after watching some really bad people never getting their come-uppence (?), and dying without any retribution that I could see, I realized that only I was paying a price for the bad deeds. So, I had to learn to let it go.
 
On a literal level : No
The word is based on the Latin carne, meaning meat basically, so incarnate roughly means in physical form and reincarnate, a return to that former physical form. Hardly!

At atomic level - No.
Because the atoms which form us have always been around and always will be. Rearrangement of them into something different doesn't equate to 'reincarnation'. Wheat, milk and sugar cane aren't reincarnated as cake are they?

On a spiritual level - No.
Unless you have an extremely broad definition of spirit.
Hell, still no.
As some pixie of the Universe eternally gathering Dark Matter and lighting it up or something? nup.
Or the delusion that the one off configuration of neurons which give us 'personality' will be duplicated in a new 'person'? Nooooo. sorry.
Does the cake remember being wheat, sugar cane or stewing warmly in a cow as milk.?

If the neurological configuration (spirit?) is duplicated in something other than human then it would be a hell of a life knowing calculus if you're a frog. Just sayin'.

So:
If we can't come back as the same 'person' either corporeally or 'spiritually' in the same form then we're just gorrrrn.

Whatever our atoms recombine to form is not a return of 'us' and is therefore NOT reincarnation.
It's wishful thinking.

We're all gonna die and the Universe won't collapse of missing us. Get over it.
Be grateful you got lucky enough to go around once.
 
I agree with Rkunsaw, I think this is our only life, so we should make the best of it. I'd have to have some unusual paranormal experiences of memories to believe otherwise, I'm not willing to do a past-life regression session. :eek: I am open-minded though to a lot of these types of things, always willing to hear other's stories, etc.
 
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Little boy tells his mom, remember when you told me that life begins with dust and also ends with dust?
Mom says yes, that's what I told you honey.
Little boy...well you better go upstairs and look under my bed cause someone is either coming or going.:cool:
 
Ina said:
Well Pappy, you didn't expect her to disturb that person did you, and here we all thought they dust bunnies caused by neglect.
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Looking back, it's easy to laugh. But, at the time we were mostly a bunch of scared kids. In bootcamp, the sergeant discovered a dust bunny and ordered the nearest guy to get down on his hands and knees, call the clump of dust to attention and blow it down the hall and out the door. I do believe it was reincarnated as a . . . well, nevermind...
 
Staying on subject of "under-the-bed"; Guy goes to a psychiatrist to help him get rid of his fear of a monster
under his bed. Went for months with no results, so he quit.

Met the doctor a month later and told him the problem was solved. Doc says, "Changed doctors, did you?"

Guy says, "No, my bartender told me to saw off the beds legs. I haven't slept better in years."
 
Why doesn't anyone have a regresssed memory of being a sh*tcarter in Bangladesh? There has to have been millions of them, some must have come back as Wall St Bankers or something surely?

Or is reincarnation religion/racist too? Do Buddhist monks come back as Hindu sacred cows? Was Michael Jackson morphing into a former incarnation of a plantation boss or the white version of Jesus we see on Christians' walls ? Gasp, could it all be true after all?

I think I need more chocolate and coffee. Maybe we all do.
 
Yeah, Diwundrin, everyone who claims to have past life memories claims to have been a mighty something or other. Just once, I wanna hear somebody say they were lousy commoner.
 
Diwundrin said:
Why doesn't anyone have a regresssed memory of being a sh*tcarter in Bangladesh? There has to have been millions of them, some must have come back as Wall St Bankers or something surely?

Or is reincarnation religion/racist too? Do Buddhist monks come back as Hindu sacred cows? Was Michael Jackson morphing into a former incarnation of a plantation boss or the white version of Jesus we see on Christians' walls ? Gasp, could it all be true after all?

I think I need more chocolate and coffee. Maybe we all do.
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Actually, Buddhists do NOT believe in reincarnation the way it's normally expressed. It's a complicated thought-process that they have but essentially what their sacred writings convey is that your karma is a never-ending roller-coaster ride that you have some "presence" in.

It has been said "The person who dies here and is reborn elsewhere is neither the same person, nor another".
 
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