Reincarnation...

I don't think reincarnation is possible honestly. As to what happens when you die, I have no idea, I'm still alive. And I'm not ready to find out either.

 

I kind of imagine, that when we die...We get to fill in a checklist. So basically we can choose our nationality and gender and we pick a set of qualities we would have as a person (We can't have all of them) for Example- Intelligence, Close Family, Independant...That sort of thing.

 

Umm. Idk. I like that idea especially since my favorite author (Christopher Pike) uses it a lot in his books. I just really like the idea of knowing someone in a past life, especially romantically. Plus it goes well with Karma.

 

I think reincarnation is a cool thought, but I don't really believe in it. I'm a Christian, so one of the core doctrines of the faith is to believe that you go to heaven and stay there I guess. I'm not a biblical scholar, so I don't really know a whole lot about that kind of stuff in relation with the bible. It seems cool though.

 

Do not believe in it. Would not want to deal with it.

 

People want to believe in reincarnation because no one wants to die, we like to believe there is some life afterwards. I understand these feelings, but I think we should realize them, instead of making up fake things that happen after death. I'm not casting judgment on you, I could very well be wrong.

 

I think it's an interesting concept. I'm Muslim, so my beliefs don't revolve around that idea. But I would love to read some books on the subject, I think it's intriguing in a way.

Although, my mother once joked that my sister and I must have been men in our previous lives, ha.

 

Hopefully not.. life is suffering.. see what I did there? Probably not, oh well..
But no, it's as silly as believing you burn forever or live as a slave in some place of grandeur because you "believed",, after you die

 

I quite like the idea of reincarnation, but it's probably not possible.

 

I wonder what types of animals my past lives were. Hopefully one was a red panda and the other was a iguana. Just so I could be happy.

I don't believe in it, but I do like reading about it. It's very interesting.

 

Well we are made up of the same atoms as other organisms were before us, and our lives and personalities are just a result of those atoms reacting with each other... so in a way we are reincarnated.

Although I've probably got atoms from something gross, like Queen Victoria's buttcrack sweat.

 

I think it's possible. A certain supernatural story I read posits that when a person dies, they talk with an immortal figure who says that in the universe, it's just him, and the person. Everyone who ever lived/ever will live is the same soul who is reincarnated back and forth across time. Every act of kindness and act of cruelty, they are doing to themselves for the purpose of learning. Before each rebirth, all the person's accumulated wisdom is stored away until they experience everything, and are brought up to divinity.

The conclusion made is that all of existence is an egg for a god. Pretty heavy stuff.

 

Pretty much sums up my thoughts on it ^

 

Occam's Razor is pretty damning in these cases.

 

I used to think about this a lot...but i don't think reincarnation is real. Human population has been growing exponentially. So, let's say there were 4 billion people 200 years ago, and now there are approximately 7 billion people, 'Where did the 3 billion souls come from?'

 

I never really believed in it. I believe in the afterlife sort of thing, where some spirits are stuck in our world - maybe with a reason like to watch over someone - or they go into limbo, another world, maybe a room filled with lots of doors and they go through one and then their spirit dies in no pain. Or they go to yet another world full of the dead, but not Heaven or Hell.

I'm also not afraid of death, there's worse things I've been through. I'm quite excited for it. I sometimes think Death is a real.. well, I guess, "person", I'd love to have a conversation with him/her if so.

 

At the core, I am agnostic. However I have seen and heard too many things to not believe there is something more to life than what we usually see with the naked eye. I believe reincarnation or soul transmigration is a possibility and as someone else pointed out, there has been research done on it.

Personally, I believe that the "soul" may be made up of a particle or component we don't yet really know about or understand. Science discovers new things every day and only 150 years ago no one knew radio waves existed.

I have studied "paranormal" phenomena for going on 10 years now and have a background in electronics and RF. Most anomalies are explainable but I have captured some really fascinating evidence that just blows the mind.

So while I remain skeptical to a degree, my logical mind is open to the idea that a part of us remains alive and well after our physical death, and that that part of us could potentially live on in a new physical body or elsewhere. The romantic side of me totally believes in it.

 

I see no reason to believe in it. I see it as uh, more possible than heaven, but still unnecessary. There is no reason to believe we have souls.