Do you believe in past lives?

[TenPenny]

It is my opinion that my post was quite clear that it was my opinion.

It is my opinion that I'm not being nasty, I think you're being a dikhead for no reason.

It is my opinion that it was quite clear that it was my opinion, it is my opinion that if you can't figure that out despite having said so yourself, I can't help you.

The above post is my opinion only.
Please be aware that opinion is not verifiable fact.

 

[talloola]

Umm...I put a line in there 'that's my opinion'. There's a reason I put that line in there. 'That's my opinion' means that the foregoing few lines are my opinion. They are not concrete verifiable facts. They are my opinion.

Do I need to clarify it for you?

My opinion is exactly same as yours. The dying man or anyone dying is probably thinking very much
of other people in his family who have died before him, and he is on his way there too, it is just common
sense and what I would think many people think when they are dying.

I am not at the point of dying, but I have thought many times about my mother, who has been gone now for
ten years, and it gives me comfort to know that when I die, I can do it with more grace and acceptance
because she did, BUT that has nothing to do with joining her, or her coming back, or me coming back, it
is just a normal family thought, without imagination getting tangled up amongst the thought.

The word imagination has not been mentioned here, and it is the one 'wonderful' and 'vivid' ability we all
have in our makeup, and some use it much more than others, hence the very interesting and successful movies
about past lives and other such fantasies.

Until we actually see proof of any afterlife or previous lives, we can comfortably know there are none, as
if there were, it would be very apparant, and not 'just' people picking up on what other people thought they
saw in this life or others lives, but they have no proof they actually did.

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 --------

 

[Scott Free]

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

I don't know of any means or mechanism whereby that would be even plausible let alone possible

 

[Bar Sinister]

It is my opinion that my post was quite clear that it was my opinion.

It is my opinion that I'm not being nasty, I think you're being a dikhead for no reason.

It is my opinion that it was quite clear that it was my opinion, it is my opinion that if you can't figure that out despite having said so yourself, I can't help you.

The above post is my opinion only.
Please be aware that opinion is not verifiable fact.

I agree. I had no trouble understanding that you were posting your opinion and not attempting to make a statement of fact.

 

[Kathie Bondar]

When you die, you're dead, that's it, the end. There's no evidence to suggest any part of the personality survives the death of the body, or existed before the body, that's just wishful thinking. Make the best of the time you've got, it's all there is.

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.
www.ThinkTankGraphics.ca

I do not believe in past lives no.

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

you mean we just dont have the technology yet? JK:happy3:

Check it out www.ThinkTankGraphics.ca

My opinion is exactly same as yours. The dying man or anyone dying is probably thinking very much
of other people in his family who have died before him, and he is on his way there too, it is just common
sense and what I would think many people think when they are dying.

I am not at the point of dying, but I have thought many times about my mother, who has been gone now for
ten years, and it gives me comfort to know that when I die, I can do it with more grace and acceptance
because she did, BUT that has nothing to do with joining her, or her coming back, or me coming back, it
is just a normal family thought, without imagination getting tangled up amongst the thought.

The word imagination has not been mentioned here, and it is the one 'wonderful' and 'vivid' ability we all
have in our makeup, and some use it much more than others, hence the very interesting and successful movies
about past lives and other such fantasies.

Until we actually see proof of any afterlife or previous lives, we can comfortably know there are none, as
if there were, it would be very apparant, and not 'just' people picking up on what other people thought they
saw in this life or others lives, but they have no proof they actually did.

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 --------

It took advanced technology to get to the moon. Would you think getting to the other side of death would be just a simple up up and away?
The technology is descrived in Ch. 36, check it out JESUS. HIS LIFE AND WORK ON EARTH AND BEYOND

 

[Ron in Regina]

Do you think people that when they die, just get reborn into another life and start life over again as another person or thing? I seem to think so because i always get these weird deja vu moments where something ive never been too or expeirenced seems familiar....

What do you guys think? Mabye you were someone important in histpry, mabye you changed history or mabye lived a normal humble life in a past life....

Do I believe there is something more? Yeah, I do.

Recycling souls or whatever you wish to call it? Why not?

Does this belief harm myself or anyone else? Nope.

Where any of us someone famous in a past life? Doubtful. Right now
few are famous...and many more are just living our lives. Should that
be any different if souls (or whatever) are recycled?

Does this belief justify pissing away ones life? Like the one you're in
right now...if that's the way it works? Nope.

Am I recruiting, or pushing my beliefs onto anyone else? Nope.

Do I have any proof or evidence beyond the antidotal? Nope...but does
that really matter if it gives me comfort, and I'm not selling anything, and
I'm not hurting myself or others?

 

[talloola]

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.
www.ThinkTankGraphics.ca


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


Check it out www.ThinkTankGraphics.ca


It took advanced technology to get to the moon. Would you think getting to the other side of death would be just a simple up up and away?
The technology is descrived in Ch. 36, check it out JESUS. HIS LIFE AND WORK ON EARTH AND BEYOND

Dexter wouldn't be a person to 'not bother' about anything.

The other side of death is life before death.

No I do not believe in any such thing, and do not connect
the word technology to any mythical belief at all.

 

[VanIsle]

It is my opinion that my post was quite clear that it was my opinion.

It is my opinion that I'm not being nasty, I think you're being a dikhead for no reason.

It is my opinion that it was quite clear that it was my opinion, it is my opinion that if you can't figure that out despite having said so yourself, I can't help you.

The above post is my opinion only.
Please be aware that opinion is not verifiable fact.

Too funny! I didn't know you had a sense of humour!!!!!ccasion9:

I agree. I had no trouble understanding that you were posting your opinion and not attempting to make a statement of fact.

For goodness sakes! I understood him. I just felt like being a pest today. Give it a rest you guys.:lol:

I don't know of any means or mechanism whereby that would be even plausible let alone possible

Have you ever heard of God and Heaven?

 

[Dexter Sinister]

You answered the point I was making via the words "how could I". You made your original statement as actual fact...

Not really. The question posed in the OP was, what do I think, so what I posted is what I think. I didn't see any need to qualify it, it's just what I think is correct based on the evidence available to me and what I understand of how reality is. It couldn't be anything else. If evidence comes along that shows I'm wrong I'll cheerfully and with fascinated delight change my mind. But the evidence better be pretty good, because if there's any reality to reincarnation then a huge lot of other stuff science currently understands about physics and biology and chemistry, to name only a few fields of knowledge, is not correct, it'd be a major paradigm shift on an unprecedented scale.

For future reference, you can assume that's true of anything I write that appears to be a statement of fact. All knowledge but the trivial is tentative to some degree, but it's interesting how what's trivial changes over time. It's now generally viewed as trivially true that the earth orbits the sun, for instance, that's been established beyond any reasonable doubt, but it's not very long ago that you could get into serious difficulties with the civil and religious authorities (which were often the same people) for making that claim.

 

[VanIsle]

I think all you guys are feeling way too serious tonight. It's our first warm day of the year (well - nearly our first. They say we had one on June 23). It's a great feeling to be sitting here at 11:30 PM with the doors open and the house warm. I just feel good tonight and a little on the goofy side as well. Have a great night. (No - not drinking. Hmm - that 's a statment and it's not quite true. I do have a glass of ice water sitting beside me).

 

[Dexter Sinister]

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]

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]

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

:triplets:

 

[Scott Free]

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]

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]

"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]

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]

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]

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]

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. :smile:

Mind you, it will be a very tiny boat. :lol: