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Reincarnation - has anyone looked at the evidence?


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Another problem with it for me is the increasing world population. There can't be enough souls from the past for everyone!

 

By saying that you make an assumption that time is linear and not transcendental. I would argue that any higher consciousness and multi spiritual container would exist outside of time (and space), so the 'past' is not a relevant concept if you want to count souls.

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I suppose it may just be possible that further research/discoveries about DNA may show that some knowledge(memories) can be passed on? And in one or two cases that "memory" can be recalled?

 

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I must say, I am amazed and rather impressed!

I thought you knew this already. There is lot's of good stuff in the Bible, it's just that I am more of an Old Testament man. Maybe if by another accident of birth I had been born to a Jewish household I'd be a beleiver, who knows?

 

I love the Song of Solomon, the Psalms and the Deuteromic History. It's Matthew Mark Luke and John that leave me cold and I would not trust Paul as far as I could throw him. Too many axes to grind, but hey that's a different story, another thread for another day.

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By saying that you make an assumption that time is linear and not transcendental. I would argue that any higher consciousness and multi spiritual container would exist outside of time (and space), so the 'past' is not a relevant concept if you want to count souls.

I'd like to see you tote the burden of proof for that one. How many angels can dance on the point of a needle?

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Ken,

 

It has to be there somewhere (I think(?). "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" It's part of every funeral I ever went to.

 

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(if not, it is biblically inspired) cop-out

Genesis 3:19

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Yes of course we are re-incarnated.

 

Every molecule in our bodies was forged in long dead stars, eons before our sun was born.

 

And was once part of a living pig, chicken, grain of wheat etc, as was every molecule that made up that pig, chicken, grain of wheat etc.

 

And will be again, and again, and again.

 

So, like a caterpillar that disassembles within a cocoon and emerges as a completely different life-form, over and over the matter of our bodies has been and will be the components of other creatures, some species long-extinct, and other species not yet evolved, until all life itself is ultimately extinguished.

Perhaps it's not the matter of our bodies that we think of as being re-incarnated.

 

Perhaps our knowledge? Our personality? Our memories?

 

Here it doesn't look so good.

As we age, or our brain suffers traumatic damage, these things are proven transient, even as our bodies live, they are hardly likely to survive our personal demise.

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I suppose it may just be possible that further research/discoveries about DNA may show that some knowledge(memories) can be passed on? And in one or two cases that "memory" can be recalled?

 

Den

 

It's always amazed me how (say) a thrush knows how to build a thrush's nest.

 

Unlike any other nest and easily identifiable as such, the thrush that builds the nest has no written or oral plan to work from.

 

It's a complex expression of inherited behavior.

 

And it amazes me even more that such behavior is contained in a brain put together according to the genetic code contained in an egg, including how to build a thrush's nest, hide from the shape of a hawk, look beneath bark for a maggot or two.

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It's always amazed me how (say) a thrush knows how to build a thrush's nest.

 

Unlike any other nest and easily identifiable as such, the thrush that builds the nest has no written or oral plan to work from.

 

It's a complex expression of inherited behavior.

 

And it amazes me even more that such behavior is contained in a brain put together according to the genetic code contained in an egg, including how to build a thrush's nest, hide from the shape of a hawk, look beneath bark for a maggot or two.

 

Yes, and the fact that it can be studied as "Behavioral Genetics" in no way detracts from its wonder.

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