It is truly amazing the mannerisms which are actually genetic. Through a quirk of circumstance I never met my son till he was 30. Then when I met him, every time he moved I experienced a sense of deja vu because so many of his movements, mannerisms and quirks, ways of walking, sitting and standing mirrored mine.

@Cyklone My mother died before I was 5 years old, but I hold a pen just the unusual way that she did, I've been told.

So would the fact that, given a study of three people, mannerisms seem to occur that can not have been learned from the originator have given rise to the idea of a person coming back as someone else, ie a child having the mannerisms of a recently deceased relative. Something which I would of assumed was learned behaviour ie a child sees a parent and copies them.

@Budgie A study of 3 people can reach no serious conclusion. But, my youngest of 2 sons looks a hell of a lot like my father, although he has only 25% of his genetic makeup, at most.

@BirdMan1 Yeah I know we just have some anecdotal stuff (I was in a silly mood) but I am meant to look like my Great Aunt that I have the mannerisms for despite the fact I tend to take after my father's side of the family for my body shape (short round). If she is my grandfather's sister how much DNA do we share? I look nothing like my mother's father (tall lean) and only vaguely like my mother (short lean). At work we had a game to match people to their parents and while people could match me to my Dad no hope at matching me to my mother and the photo I was using was of her at about the same age I was at the time.

@Budgie Maybe a 16th of her DNA?

@BirdMan1 So my left leg maybe? Still in a silly mood I think.

@Budgie Cool, stay a while.

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.

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.

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?

That's funny as hell

Mark Twane quote

@JAMESW27 The news of his demise was premature?

@BirdMan1 i thought it was "greatly? exadurated"

@JAMESW27 "The report of my deaths an exaggeration." You got it right. (I took this from a letter in his own handwriting.)

@BirdMan1 thanks for the spelling correction , I appreciate things like that

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.

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.

Cheeky lol

Nice

You leave a legacy by way of your impact while here. The concept of "soul" is, at least, debatable.

wow. intriguing, I must say. so, you support the claim made by my friend about reincarnation?

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.