The Power of Positive Thinking to Reverse Aging!
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Not too many places warmer than Grand Forks in summer, V.I. - maybe just Lytton and Osoyoos.
Ooops! "Philosophists" was a brain fart. Unreliable critters, brains are!I'm pretty sure that Wiki said "philosophers" not "philosophists". There's a big difference. Merriam-Webster says a philosophist is
Phi`los´o`phist (fĭ`lǒs´ô`fĭst)
n.1.A pretender in philosophy.
At any rate, judging from what most people perceive that love is, science has a different story, so I am not averse to thinking that most people are misinformed, uninformed, etc. about what "soul", "spirit", and that sort of thing are.
The science of love
So is the fact that thinking young does aide in the process of staying young.
It is not only eating right, and exercise, going to the doctor.
State of mind... look at the yoga, martial arts,, all a form of body and mind working together. When I dance same thing....
WOW! What happened to all your spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, etc.? You didn't plagiarize this thing did you? Is there life after death?
So I say there is life after life, there is strong evidence of it and certainly not proof that there isn't so until someone proves to me there isn't then I will naturally assume there is and any other possibility is nothing but utter rubbish........... :smile:
Isn't their neck of the woods the place where opium came from, though? Kind of like rationalising the use, I think, yes?
Buddhists do not believe in reincarnation as we commonly understand the word. This is what it says about Buddhism:
Reincarnation is not a simple physical birth of a person; for instance, John being reborn as a cat in the next life. In this case John possesses an immortal soul which transforms to the form of a cat after his death. This cycle is repeated over and over again. Or if he is lucky, he will be reborn as a human being. This notion of the transmigration of the soul definitely does not exist in Buddhism.
A Basic Buddhism Guide: On Reincarnation
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Quite so, countryboy. One needs a thick skin to participate in forums like these.
Not sure if Buddhist monks use the stuff or not. Shaman from all over the planet, on the other hand, used all kinds of hallucinogens. They delved into other realms of reality, not always with the use of drugs. Many traditions used drumming and/or chanting to achieve altered states.
Universe certainly recycles the organic matter, darkbeaver. That is where the laws fo conservation come in. Whether buried or cremated, our bodies are recycled and become part of the earth, perhaps used to form another life.
Indeed, that is the scientific view of life, that life is a continuum, without beginning or end. But this does not constitute afterlife, as the word is understood. In the afterlife, presumably the soul survives, and goes somewhere else (whether Heaven, Hell or is reincarnated).
I do not believe in soul and hence, not in afterlife as well.
I will, if you first oblige me by proving something.
I say that on the dark side of the moon, the side not visible to us, there is a two story house, made of gingerbread and Swiss cheese, hermetically sealed, with a pool filled with maple syrup in the back yard.
Now, you prove to me that such a house does not exist. Then I will prove to you that there is no afterlife.
I think Hinduism and Sikhism are the only major religions which believe in reincarnation as the word is commonly understood (soul migrating from one body to another).
As to Jains believing that Gods reincarnate after they die, it is important to remember that Gods are immortal. So they don’t really die, they simply trade one form of body for another. That is not reincarnation.
You put your finger on it, it is all a matter of faith, a matter of belief. You either believe it or you don't, no matter of proof is going to convince anybody one way or the other.
Where faith is concerned, scientific concepts such as objectivity, evidence, hypothesis testing etc. are irrelevant.