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Chrispy
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People firmly believe in life after death yes, but there is still no proof.
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ChainiaC
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It is actually highly improbable... though it would be nice.
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Chrispy
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Ya... eternal bliss. That would be nice.
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Chrispy
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When we re-encarnate we lose memory of our past life, so how is that much different then life>death>still dead
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ChainiaC
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Its not. Well for you personally its not anyway, unless... you visit some shady regression hypnotherapy guy and finally remember you where actually napoleon.
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Zeep-Eeep
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It's been a while since I took a serious look at re-encarnation
thoery, but let me take a hack at it.
What is the difference if we live, then die and stay dead, or
live, die, and are reborn if we lose all memory of our past lives?
The way some belive it to work is similar (in a sense) to Frued's theory
of how the mind works. On a spiritual level, we are said to have three
levels of intellect.
1. The conscience mind that we use and think with every day.
2. The sub-conscience mind which stores distant associations, fears
and deep, forgotten memories.
3. The Super-conscience, which acts as a sub-conscience to the the
sub-conscience.
Still with me?
When we die, the memories and thoughts we had in the conscience mind are lost. They fade out with our bodies. Important memories or information are past back to the sub-conscience. The sub-conscience then takes over while we are between lives; storng away tidbits of information that we gained during life.
When we are reborn, we gain a new, blank conscience. The sub-conscience passes forward patterns or traits into the conscience mind. However, full memories rarely filter through.
Some people claim that they can pull memories from the sub- (or super-) conscience minds of their past lives. Of course it's hard to prove this either way. However, I believe this to be the theory of why we don't fully remember our past lives.
... assuming we have past lives.
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What sound does a penguin make?
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Tiberian
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About having many lives... I have always thought that how does the increase in population fit in that picture?
Do monkeys live many lives? Do we share the lives with them? If I die, is it possible that I reincarnate as a chimpansee?
If only humans have this ability, when did we start having it? When we started walking with two feet instead of four? When we started using tools? When we started talking? When we started having religions?
I am not trying to be a pain-in-the-ass, I just like these questions and hope that some believer can answer them with something more than "don't take it literally" -bullshit.
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ChainiaC
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Indeed, now that our population grows explosively, new consciousnesses need to be formed (born?) to fill the ranks of reincarnaters becouse of the suprlus of new bodies. However what if the 3rd world war whipes out 95% of the polulation. That would mean the consciousnesses have to be in the reincarnation queue for... almost an eternity. And who decides your place in line? And what does the consciousness do all that time? hybernate??
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I don't really follow reincarnation, but I'll play along.
REINCARNATION THEORYCRAFT: Being in death queue for millions of years isn't bad because you can't think while you're in it. And if there is reincarnation, you're probably going to respawn as a descendant of yours. If your line gets wiped out, you might end up as a third grand cousin type of thing. If those are all gone (unlikely), you end up as different ethnicity. If the species is dead, you trace back to the closest animal (a chimp) and live as those. So if you have a pet Parrot, it may have been a Tyranosaurus at some point. Dumb things like insects probably have souls too, but barely. If the planet's surface gets wrecked, everyone starts off as amoebae again. If the planet is destroyed, then we're either obliterated, we haunt the solar system, or we migrate and start living as aliens.
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