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Whether you're agnostic or not, what are your thoughts on reincarnation?

mkeaman 7 May 25
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I don't have any. Because no.

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Reincarnation would be nice, wouldn't it if you came back as something or someone more comfortable stationed than 90 % of the earth, so, is it a lottery and how does one arrange for a good rebirth? I'm afraid it just another religious pipe-dream! This is all we can expect. According to science, though, we are energy, and energy can not be destroyed, so, if there is a "transubstantiation" what form of energy will we be? No real answers to this one!

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The way I feel these days , pain , disability and sleeplesness, I hope there is no do-over,.. On the other hand, if you science guys find the cure for my disease, I would like to be back and try life without pain. But no, seriously, there may be a recycling of the molecules of my body ( if done right) but no reincarnation, which assumes an eternal conciousness.

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I'll let you know if, and when, I get there.

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I recognize the need to believe that in some way we are immortal, but there is clearly no evidence in that belief. There is one truth in the idea of immortality that is absolute and that is that the past cannot be changed, thus, we will never be erased from having existed.

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An unproven idea, as religious ideas are. But make no mistake the concept in practice can be anything but a nice idea. It's a short step to believe that people are born punished in some way, while others are born privileged, as karma and reincarnation are entwined. Buddhist cultures are known for this. I know, I've lived in one. Purists will say that this is a distortion of the true meaning. Religious nonsense is always dismissed as a distortion of true meaning. But a theory is only as good as it is in practice. Reincarnation is just another reflection of human desire for life after death. If it's not heaven, it's reincarnation, or, as some new age types believe, we die and reform in another universe. Sure. Like all these ideas they distract us from the present.

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We are all recycled, one way or another. I don't believe that our persona is; that ends when the lights go out, in my opinion, but the rest of what we are may end up in birds, plants, mosquitoes etc, or stardust.

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My thoughts on reincarnation is that it’s an abstract idea, not really to be taken literally but to give a broader perspective. To apply the idea to my feelings on humanity may not be what the creators of the reincarnation idea had in mind.

For me, I feel we all are products of what and who came before us. Our thoughts and our station in life is a result of our historical backgrounds, and that changes with bits of personalities from those in our youth, past and present who instilled various character traits in us, or that we absorbed on our own, and we can consciously choose which character traits to nurture and which to let die out.

In turn, we affect those around us and those who come after us in similar ways as humanity cycles onward. Things we say and do will likely be absorbed into the reality and of others and repeated after we are gone, so it’s good to keep on a good path forward.

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Why not reincarnation?

According to Einstein, all matter is a form of energy, so since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, we have always existed and will always exist in some energy form.

"For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -Einstein.

Besides, physics indicates that we are participating in creating our own universes/reality, so there's nothing "woo" about it. People can manipulate energy in ways that others may perceive as impossible.

“Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

Besides, both my sister and I were born remembering a past life, and I have since remembered many of them, and even googled one incident I remembered from a life in the 1940s, and the details were accurate.

Here is list of books of research on children ages 2-6 who remember past lives. Researchers verified their stories, making sure the children had no means to access the details of those memories in any other way.

Some children could even speak languages unknown in their current provinces, with cultural behavior to match, even though it wasn't that of their current families.

Several children who had died violent deaths in a past life led police to their (past life) bodies then pointed out the murderers, who subsequently confessed.

True Real Life Stories of Reincarnation: Amazing Past Life Memories, Richard Bullivant,

The Laughing Cherub Guide to Past Life Regression: A Handbook for Real People, by Mary Elizabeth Raines

Reincarnation: Exceptional Cases of Past Life Memories, by Eirik Leivsson

Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, revised edition, by Ian Stevenson, M.D.

12 Real Life Reincarnation Stories : Global Evidence of Reincarnation and Past Lives, edited by Richard Bullivant

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I believe in it ! How else could Ghengis Khan come back as Donald Trump ?

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Nice idea but bullshit.

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It’s like karma

It’s a nice idea. With zero merit

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