Shirley MacLaine Explains Homosexuality For Us All

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I had often thought that. Being Wiccan I beleive in the Summerlands and reincarnation. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has thought that...

 

I have to admit for a second that just baffled me. Honestly that is the oddest explaination for why people are gay I've ever heard.

 

I still love her

 

might come down to what the life experinces were in the past life.

 

I have never though of it this way. How intriguing.

 

Its original I give it that.

 

Perhaps it could come from a premature death in your last life. Say in your last life I had died as a female who was just approaching puberty, my soul might have been going through a time of rapid change to female, and that might have effected the transition to going to a male. Of course you could argue this could be the case for almost any time period in the last life. Perhaps it could be because in your last life you died in the womb and never had the time to "use up" the female energy your soul was prepared for.

Of course this is strictly hypothetical. I'm interested in theology and philosophy though. I think its interesting discussion.

 

kinda bs... so shes saying that i have a female soul but ended up in a male body but because im 'female', i like males? shes almost trying to say that people are innately straight and only gay on accident because of a body mix up. thats re-dick. honey, im a male who likes males. end of story.

 

I can understand why someone who believes in reincarnation would think this, though I wonder what determines if you are gay or if you are trans, and what about being bisexual or genderqueer? Plus, wouldn't that make about half of the world LGBT?

 

This thought has always passed through my head. In fact I am almost certain this is the absolute truth. I always feel its been linked to my past lives.

 

Somehow I find the idea that I was female in a past life to be comforting. At least nature got it right once before is a little nice to know...

 

^Maybe they'll get it right in the next life too?

 

that actually does, at least from a theoretical spiritual standpoint, makes sense to me. however, the people who, at least in america, are holding back lgbt equality would never accept the far more established, older view of the afterlife that is reincarnation.

 

There's reincarnation in the Talmud*, and in Kabbalah, but I don't think there's any in the Bible. The ancient Israelites and Judeans didn't have the idea of a soul in their culture, and the closest thing to an afterlife is Sheol with means "grave." The Old Testament is entirely unconcerned with what happens after death.

The New Testament writers for the most part believed that Jesus would come to resurrect the dead next Thursday, as it were, so they would have seen no point to reincarnation.

None of which is to say that reincarnation isn't a valid position for an Jew or Christian to take, but it isn't biblically supported and I highly doubt it ever was. It's not consistent with the general themes regarding death of the Old or New Testaments.

*But the Talmud has everything. It's several centuries' worth of rabbis speculating on absolutely everything. It contradicts itself all over the place, and it's supposed to because it's more of an extended account of several arguments that lasted centuries than a polished book of theology.