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Dexter Sinister
#31

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by Kathie BondarView Post

Just because you don't know it, does not mean no evidence. Easy brush-off to a complex question. If you keep searching you might find. On the other hand it is a lot easier not to bother.

Seeing as you're new here, I'll let you off the hook on that one. You seriously underestimate me, and your web site is a little disturbing. You're really claiming people have surreptitiously entered your home and your safety deposit box to steal and suppress your ideas?
 
Cliffy
#32

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by VanIsleView Post


Have you ever heard of God and Heaven?

I think I would prefer Valhalla. Sounds like a lot more fun. Or the happy hunting grounds, although I think that is more of a Hollywood idea than any native tradition.
 
Johnnny
#33

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote:

You're really claiming people have surreptitiously entered your home and your safety deposit box to steal and suppress your ideas?

 
Scott Free
#34

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by VanIsleView Post


Have you ever heard of God and Heaven?

Sure I have, that was pretty much what I meant, they have no mechanism whereby they could exist. Everything else that I have ever observed could be quantified in some way i.e. measured, weighed, timed etc. God and heaven have no such qualities that I have ever seen. They seem to exist in peoples minds as imaginings to sooth themselves against a hostile world. As far as I can tell that is the only place god and heaven exist which, is also where the Easter Bunny, Santa, and the Tooth Fairy exist. I have no evidence (I know of no evidence) whatsoever that any of them are more or less real than god and heaven.

To say god is metaphysical and doesn't operate by natural means could be said also about the Easter Bunny, Santa, and the Tooth Fairy. But you don't believe in them do you? Well, I hope you don't anyway. (That is a joke) So make a list of reasons you don't believe in any of them and you'll probably have the same list as to why I know that god is a fiction too.
 
karrie
#35

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by Kathie BondarView Post


Any reason why not? Not even curious if there is one?

I've satisfied my curiousity and come to my conclusion. If someone shows up with proof otherwise I'm not closed to it, but, no one's come up with anything new to me, not even your page.
 
AnnaG
#36

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
"Do you think people that when they die, just get reborn into another life and start life over again as another person or thing?"

No. There's no evidence for it. I won't say there's no such thing, but until there's reason to believe it, I don't believe it. I won't believe in paisley- or plaid-patterned, winged pigs for the same reason.
 
Mowich
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#37

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote:

So the proof is on those who believe those things, because they have never shown themselves here to prove
anything to the rest of us.

That is my opinion --------

Using that reasoning, anyone who believes in god or mohammed or Buddha et al, also must assume the burden of proof. Proof really plays no part in this, IMHO. We believe what we do because we are entitled to do so.
 
#juan
#38

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
I believe in past lives as easily as I believe in heavenly courts where we are judged by or actions by a holy jury and sent to either heaven or hell. I would be quite willing to believe in God if He were to show Himself to us in a convincing fashion. At this point the Bible doesn't cut it.
If we look at our lives were we live out our three score and ten years(some a bit longer and some a bit shorter)and just die seems illogical. What is the purpose of these short, little, meaningless lives. Some people achieve a lot in their short lives, Are those people rewarded......How? Every question just turns up more questions.
 
AnnaG
#39

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

Using that reasoning, anyone who believes in god or mohammed or Buddha et al, also must assume the burden of proof. Proof really plays no part in this, IMHO. We believe what we do because we are entitled to do so.

But, but, but I want to believe in plaid- or paisley-patterned, winged pigs......... lol
 
Mowich
#40

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by CliffyView Post

I think I would prefer Valhalla. Sounds like a lot more fun. Or the happy hunting grounds, although I think that is more of a Hollywood idea than any native tradition.

Speaking of Vahalla, Cliffy......and going off topic for a moment , I have stipulated in my will that after cremation my ashes be put on a boat, lit afire and set sail on Canim Lake. I would have preferred a true Viking funeral but that is not legal for some silly reason.

Mind you, it will be a very tiny boat.
 
AnnaG
#41

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

Speaking of Vahalla, Cliffy......and going off topic for a moment , I have stipulated in my will that after cremation my ashes be put on a boat, lit afire and set sail on Canim Lake. I would have preferred a true Viking funeral but that is not legal for some silly reason.

Mind you, it will be a very tiny boat.

lol You aren't Viking-sized? They think a fire on a boat out in the middle of a lake will spread? I can imagine that might be true in the Gulf, but not Canim Lake. lol
 
talloola
#42

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

Using that reasoning, anyone who believes in god or mohammed or Buddha et al, also must assume the burden of proof. Proof really plays no part in this, IMHO. We believe what we do because we are entitled to do so.

of course you are entitled to believe in anything you want, and I respect your right to do so, BUT that
has nothing to do with the fact that none of those things exist.
 
Cliffy
#43

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 7th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

Speaking of Vahalla, Cliffy......and going off topic for a moment , I have stipulated in my will that after cremation my ashes be put on a boat, lit afire and set sail on Canim Lake. I would have preferred a true Viking funeral but that is not legal for some silly reason.

Mind you, it will be a very tiny boat.

Seems rather bizarre to me that we can be cremated in a building but we can't be cremated in a boat. With all the pollution that industry is allowed to get away with, prescribed slash fires and even camp fires, burning a body in a boat is rather insignificant. BUt ten their isn't too much logic involved in bureaucratic regulations.
 
Mowich
#44

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by CliffyView Post

Seems rather bizarre to me that we can be cremated in a building but we can't be cremated in a boat. With all the pollution that industry is allowed to get away with, prescribed slash fires and even camp fires, burning a body in a boat is rather insignificant. BUt ten their isn't too much logic involved in bureaucratic regulations.

It is bizarre, Cliffy. It is also bizarre that the ceremony has to be kept secret as it is illegal in Canada to dispose of one's ashes in such a manner. Sheesh what's a little ash going to do, I am sure it won't harm the fish.
 
VanIsle
#45

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

It is bizarre, Cliffy. It is also bizarre that the ceremony has to be kept secret as it is illegal in Canada to dispose of one's ashes in such a manner. Sheesh what's a little ash going to do, I am sure it won't harm the fish.

It is so silly that it has to be kept secret. Everyone does it but everyone has to pretend they are not doing it. Ashes in the wind or in the water. Who would ever know!! How many times now do you see the words "no service by request"? Funerals are just way too expensive and plots are like buying the corner of a house (regarding cost). I have paid to reserve a joint plot for my husband and myself. They did not suggest to me that I could have one the size of cremains so I paid about 3 times what my cousin paid. Oh well - die and learn! lol
 
talloola
#46

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
No service, no funeral at all for myself and my husband, we have picked out a beautiful mountain side
area, (with beautiful view I might add), and it will be our buriel ground, (cremation of course), and
we have invited any and all of the family who want to, to join us there for visits and chats, and when
they pass on they are welcome to spend eternity with us.

We are not interested in ceremony at all, will not pay the ridiculous prices for all of that pomp and
show, just to line someone elses pockets, and we will not pay for a plot either, just to take up room
on this earth, we will blend in and not be noticed afterward.

The records will be there for anyone to do their genealogy later on, no need for a grave to do that.
 
AnnaG
#47

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

It is bizarre, Cliffy. It is also bizarre that the ceremony has to be kept secret as it is illegal in Canada to dispose of one's ashes in such a manner. Sheesh what's a little ash going to do, I am sure it won't harm the fish.

Quote: Originally Posted by VanIsleView Post

It is so silly that it has to be kept secret. Everyone does it but everyone has to pretend they are not doing it. Ashes in the wind or in the water. Who would ever know!! How many times now do you see the words "no service by request"? Funerals are just way too expensive and plots are like buying the corner of a house (regarding cost). I have paid to reserve a joint plot for my husband and myself. They did not suggest to me that I could have one the size of cremains so I paid about 3 times what my cousin paid. Oh well - die and learn! lol

It must be a religious thing or something political.

According to Gayle E. O'Neill, Ph.d. of TEI Analytical, Inc. the chemical content of human cremated remains is



Phosphate 47.5% Sodium 1.12% Calcium 25.3% Chloride 1.00% Sulfate 11.00% Silica 0.9% Potassium 3.69% Magnesium 0.418% Plus Aluminum oxide, Iron Oxide, Zinc,Titanium Oxide, Barium, Antimony, Chromium, Copper, Manganese, Lead, Tin, and Vanadium in much smaller quantities. Beryllium and Mercury will be present in minute quantities.



Anything harmful is in extremely small quantity. Dilute them by putting them in water of free to be blown about by wind and they're even smaller.


It's just dumb. Besides, how would anyone know you aren't just emptying your Hibachi or something?

Quote: Originally Posted by AnnaGView Post

It must be a religious thing or something political.

According to Gayle E. O'Neill, Ph.d. of TEI Analytical, Inc. the chemical content of human cremated remains is



Phosphate 47.5% Sodium 1.12% Calcium 25.3% Chloride 1.00% Sulfate 11.00% Silica 0.9% Potassium 3.69% Magnesium 0.418% Plus Aluminum oxide, Iron Oxide, Zinc,Titanium Oxide, Barium, Antimony, Chromium, Copper, Manganese, Lead, Tin, and Vanadium in much smaller quantities. Beryllium and Mercury will be present in minute quantities.



Anything harmful is in extremely small quantity. Dilute them by putting them in water of free to be blown about by wind and they're even smaller.


It's just dumb. Besides, how would anyone know you aren't just emptying your Hibachi or something?

Hopefully my short after life will be spent supplying nourishment to some trees or bushes or something.
 
talloola
#48

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by AnnaGView Post

It must be a religious thing or something political.

According to Gayle E. O'Neill, Ph.d. of TEI Analytical, Inc. the chemical content of human cremated remains is



Phosphate 47.5% Sodium 1.12% Calcium 25.3% Chloride 1.00% Sulfate 11.00% Silica 0.9% Potassium 3.69% Magnesium 0.418% Plus Aluminum oxide, Iron Oxide, Zinc,Titanium Oxide, Barium, Antimony, Chromium, Copper, Manganese, Lead, Tin, and Vanadium in much smaller quantities. Beryllium and Mercury will be present in minute quantities.



Anything harmful is in extremely small quantity. Dilute them by putting them in water of free to be blown about by wind and they're even smaller.


It's just dumb. Besides, how would anyone know you aren't just emptying your Hibachi or something?

Hopefully my short after life will be spent supplying nourishment to some trees or bushes or something.

I love the idea of helping plants etc grow and become healthier, gives me something to do instead of just
lying around down there.

Quote: Originally Posted by AnnaGView Post

"Do you think people that when they die, just get reborn into another life and start life over again as another person or thing?"

No. There's no evidence for it. I won't say there's no such thing, but until there's reason to believe it, I don't believe it. I won't believe in paisley- or plaid-patterned, winged pigs for the same reason.

I guess having another life after yours is finished is a comforting thought for many, or it could be a
very scary thought, how would you like to be an afghanistan woman, or an arab woman, if I ever came back as
one of those, I would be killed in no time, as I would fight back so hard, it would be the end, maybe a
beautiful horse, or an orca, or another person like I am, as I am having a happy life.

Anyway enough of that, I don't believe in such things, as you said, never ever has there been any evidence of
it, it's just a belief of some.

What would you like to be Anna.
 
AnnaG
#49

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by talloolaView Post

I love the idea of helping plants etc grow and become healthier, gives me something to do instead of just
lying around down there.

Yeah. At least be helpful to other lives in some way.


Quote:

What would you like to be Anna.

I like variety, so I wouldn't be a human again, if I had a choice. I thought about a sea creature, like a porpoise or something, but judging by the crap humans spew into the oceans, I changed my mind on that. Maybe an emerald boa living in a Brazilian rainforest, preferably one that wouldn't get mowed down any time soon.
 
Cliffy
#50

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
I would like to just be left out in the forest to feed the coyotes and ravens. But they won't allow that either. The ones who take me there would run the risk of arrest. I just hope I have the where with all to get myself out there.
 
petros
#51

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
A pyre is legal. Go Hindu before kicking the bucket.
 
karrie
#52

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by CliffyView Post

Seems rather bizarre to me that we can be cremated in a building but we can't be cremated in a boat. With all the pollution that industry is allowed to get away with, prescribed slash fires and even camp fires, burning a body in a boat is rather insignificant. BUt ten their isn't too much logic involved in bureaucratic regulations.

I do not want to foot the bill for the police investigation when half your charred body washes up on shore somewhere. yeah the vikings were grand and it was a beautiful ceremony and all, but it didn't totally get rid of it, it just usually took things far enough away to not be their problem when it washed ashore.
 
Mowich
#53

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 8th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by petrosView Post

A pyre is legal. Go Hindu before kicking the bucket.

There you go! Never thought of that, petros. Thanks!
 
Kathie Bondar
#54

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 9th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by Scott FreeView Post

Sure I have, that was pretty much what I meant, they have no mechanism whereby they could exist. Everything else that I have ever observed could be quantified in some way i.e. measured, weighed, timed etc. God and heaven have no such qualities that I have ever seen. They seem to exist in peoples minds as imaginings to sooth themselves against a hostile world. As far as I can tell that is the only place god and heaven exist which, is also where the Easter Bunny, Santa, and the Tooth Fairy exist. I have no evidence (I know of no evidence) whatsoever that any of them are more or less real than god and heaven.

To say god is metaphysical and doesn't operate by natural means could be said also about the Easter Bunny, Santa, and the Tooth Fairy. But you don't believe in them do you? Well, I hope you don't anyway. (That is a joke) So make a list of reasons you don't believe in any of them and you'll probably have the same list as to why I know that god is a fiction too.

Ignorance can be such a bliss.
 
talloola
#55

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 9th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by Kathie BondarView Post

Ignorance can be such a bliss.

are you an authority on ignorance?
 
El Barto
#56

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 9th, 2010
yup I believe you do come back. Some may say it wasn't proven and oddly enough , there are strange stories out there that say other wise. It is not an important belief in my books , the life you are living now , that is what's important.
Last edited by El Barto; Jul 9th, 2010 at 05:27 PM..Reason: damn i and o too close
 
Cliffy
#57

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 9th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by El BartoView Post

yup I believe you do come back. Some may say it wasn't proven and oddly enough , there are strange stories out there that say other wise. It is not an important belief in my books , the life you are living now , that is what's important.

It is even mentioned in the bible but Yes! The important thing is to live in the moment.Our memories are subjective and thus untrustworthy. The past is therefore a fiction. The future is unknown therefore a fiction. The present is all we have. Enjoy the ride while you can. Tomorrow may be your last.
 
talloola
#58

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 10th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by CliffyView Post

It is even mentioned in the bible but Yes! The important thing is to live in the moment.Our memories are subjective and thus untrustworthy. The past is therefore a fiction. The future is unknown therefore a fiction. The present is all we have. Enjoy the ride while you can. Tomorrow may be your last.

I don't understand your 'fiction' explanation, memories are vivid for the most part, in a brain that is
functioning well, and not a person who makes up stories of the past, but a person who remembers accurately,
and I think that is the majority.

fictional, I think not. I am a realist, a very logical person, I do not wonder much about what I know
has never been proven to be, I relate to the earth very deeply, and everything real about it, but nothing
that is mystical or invisible or god-like.

I believe that everyone who was ever buried in our earth is still there, in whatever form the earth has
turned them into, but they are there, all of them, and they never have come back here to bother anyone.
I wonder how many relatives I have, who are buried there.

The earth is home to the newly arrived, and those who live their lives, and intruders who have died,
are in the earth, and live on as memories in the living, and those living now must accept that, and
not insist that they will come back, let it be, accept death, I know it is difficult to think of it
in the real simplest form, that it really is, and more comforting to think that you will come back,
'ain't going to happen'.

Live a good life and create great memories for those you leave behind, it comforts them.
 
gopher
#59

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 10th, 2010
I have always suspected that we all lives past lives. History being one of my favorite subjects, there have been times when I read of something and it seems as if I am reliving the experiences of what I'm reading. It's so uncanny!
 
Johnnny
#60

Re: Do you believe in past lives?

Jul 10th, 2010
Quote: Originally Posted by gopherView Post

I have always suspected that we all lives past lives. History being one of my favorite subjects, there have been times when I read of something and it seems as if I am reliving the experiences of what I'm reading. It's so uncanny!

i read alot of history also, but i try not to hype myself up.... Im not saying i was julius carsar or haratio nelson in a past life, but who knows i could have been one of their commanders of soliders.......

But dexter does have a point, theres no proof so as it stands we are only speculating.....
 

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