Does anyone in here believe in reincarnation?
I ask this cos a friend and I were talking about the afterlife and what happens when we die. He believes when we die, we come back to this world in another body. According to him, people are buried in the ground, plants and trees "eat up" the body and bring up fruits which are eaten by other humans. This "DNA transfer" (his words) makes it possible for a human to return to this world in a different form. Basically, someone like Gates, Buffet, and Bezos could return to this world as the poor people while someone who died poor may be reborn the wealthiest being on earth. Care to share your thoughts on this?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Oh, btw, tell your friend that plants and animals DO NOT actually make meals of your buried remains.
IF they are NOT embalmed, then the bacteria, etc, inside and on the outside of your remains begin to multiply rapidly.
The internal ones, those living in your organs, digestive tract start DISSOLVING the tissues as they multiply and digest the tissues, those external ones start from the outside and slowly work their way IN.
Once your casket (coffin) begins to rot away, cracks appear and the worms and other minute creatures start burrowing their way into what is left of what once your body and the stinking, smelly slime that has oozed out of it and was it as the bacteria were merrily digesting you.
And, after a while ALL that is left of you is BONES, maybe a few strands of hair, bits of clothing, buttons and your teeth.
The worms SHIT out the dregs that they can't digest immediately, that goes into the soil and plants then send roots down, find it, and the roots suck it up once it is in solution enough to actually be sucked up.
Once that happens, your DNA has gone, gone ,gone for ever EXCEPT that which remains in your teeth and bones which, FYI ain't going NOWHERE.
Triphid
Level 9
Dec 21, 2020
2
I do not believe in any kind of "afterlife".
When you're dead, you're dead.
KKGator
Level 9
Dec 21, 2020
9
Or 'passed' Why do we say people have passed and when a rechargeable battery runs out we say it has 'died?' Seems kind of backward. When people say so and so has passed my late partner asks, "what did they pass, gas?" She constantly reminded people to not use this term for her. She died and will not return (except as a pile of ashes). She was from Iran and they didn't use pass for death in her country.
Believe in reincarnation???..... Every time i open a can of condensed milk...
Redneckliberal
Level 7
Dec 21, 2020
5
Reincarnation is just a wishful hope, a magical belief like religion.
As an atheist, I chose rational thought.
LiterateHiker
Level 9
Dec 21, 2020
5
I consider myself a skeptic, but one who is always open to new sources of data. I've long felt that reincarnation is a heap of woowoo, but recently I've been made aware of a number of interesting cases of children who, without coaching, prompting or prior knowledge, have provided intricately detailed descriptions of what would appear to be the memories of a recently deceased person who lived a great distance away. I have no explanation for this.
p-nullifidian
Level 8
Dec 21, 2020
3
Me neither.
Most of these claims are in the same category as claims to have seen Bigfoot, to have taken aboard UFOs, to have seen ghosts, etc. They are either (1) outright fabrications, (2) eager overinterpretations by nonskeptical believers, (3) instances of pareidolia or apophenia. See Bridey Murphy.
@editor20 Bridey Murphy was not a child. Children don't have the capacity to fabricate an intricate ruse. And here I'm referring to the cases reported by Ian Stevenson and his protege Jim B. Tucker, which appear to be well-documented and objectively chronicled.
I do believe we continue on as our organic matter is recycled, but not as a conscious being.
LifeIsEnough
Level 4
Dec 21, 2020
4
That's interesting.. and I quite agree. My counterargument was that if reincarnation was possible, how come I have no recollection of my previous life? 
I do, my good friend, Alan and I re-incarnated my Evaporative Air Cooler 7 years ago on November the 7th. 2013, does that count by any chance.
in ACTUAL FACT we 'played God' and Dr. Frankenstein, we took 2 DEAD Air Coolers and used them to make one that is even bigger and better so we can say, " It's ALIVE," LOL.
Triphid
Level 9
Dec 21, 2020
4
No and I didn't the last time I was here either
JAMESW27
Level 4
Dec 22, 2020
3
Mark Twane quote
I am guessing that your friend lives in a state where recreational drugs are legal?
Woo-woo nonsense. Tell him to get over the silly idea that he, or any human, is special. We just are. Our energy will go back to where we came from.
Mitch07102
Level 8
Dec 21, 2020
3
Lol my friend doesn't use "recreational drugs" . He is a regular guy with a wild thought process.
@DBlaine If he is that creative with his thought processes, I hope he's able to channel it into some kind of enjoyable outlet.
@Mitch07102 I find his perspective amusing and kinda intriguing. This is why I enjoy a good chat with him every once in a while.
Hell, I use recreational drugs (weed) and I don't believe in reincarnation.
nogod4me
Level 8
Dec 21, 2020
3
Below, I wrote that the soul is a debatable entity. It is debatable in the sense that John McCain said "The debate is over," about global warming. It continues debatable only because there are people who can not countenance letting go of the idea.
I believe that when I die I will be reincarnated as a corpse... or possibly a small bag of ashes if I ever get around to writing my will.
Charles1971
Level 7
Dec 21, 2020
3
Cheeky lol 
I’m happy to find out when I die, or not. Personally I have no faith and no one has proven reincarnation exists.
Although I have heard some very interesting personal and anecdotal accounts from people that I respect.
Plus as those that believe in reincarnation don’t tend to preach, judge or control me I’m happy to have a live and let live existence with them.
girlwithsmiles
Level 8
Dec 21, 2020
3
Nice 
I'd have to see some evidence before I accept such an idea. 
BestWithoutGods
Level 8
Dec 21, 2020
2
Of course I believe in reincarnation! I’m a Pagan. Even if u don’t physically return - your soul can be transferred to a child by the impact you have while here.
SocialDarwin
Level 5
Dec 21, 2020
3
Pure bullshit! As far as any thinking person can determine there is no afterlife. BTW, people have stopped being "buried in the ground" for some time now. Usually you are embalmed and buried inside a concrete vault. This prevents any natural process like your friend wants to talk about. Eliminate this and go back 200 years, bury me by the old oak tree, and I am still not coming back "reincarnated." If parts of the tree and myself become one there is no consciousness involved.
DenoPenno
Level 9
Dec 21, 2020
3
I'm going to be buried in a "Natural," or "Green" fashion, in a Conservation Cemetery, that is in a permanently protected nature preserve; no vaults or grave liners. I would be very happy to have a tree grow up right through me, as has happened to another cadaver there. Let whatever nutrients are left in my body be recycled, though I expect that "I" won't know anything about it.
Sounds like your friend is cobbling together some pseudo scientific bullshit to justify what he wants to believe. But that's ok, it's harmless, it keeps him happy and it doesn't sound like he's ramming it down other people's throats, so whatever. It's no worse than the rubbish that there is some mysterious soul that can think and function without a material body.
Cyklone
Level 7
Dec 21, 2020
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