Thread: Do you believe in past lives?

No one that I interact with talks about past lives and reincarnation. I never met anyone who loved to talk about it. I'd say I'm undecided due to lack of knowledge.

I'm leaning towards believing it, because if souls are eternal, they may come back to this orld into different bodies. Otherwise, Heaven and Hell ould get severely overcrowded with all he new souls coming in, and none leaving.

I think it's all hogwash, but if I were inclined to believe in a trough of hogwash that would be the one for me. Constant learning through cycles of rebirth sounds way more exciting than either heaven/hell: in hell you just roast for eternity which hurts, and in heaven you fuse with god and become omniscient, which when you think about it is ridiculously boring. Plus with reincarnation you could end up as some crazy-cool alien and all that great stuff.

Carlhungis, I've read some interesting explanations of Deja-vu that seem to fit a little better to me. The currently most accepted cause is that your mind "glitches" a bit and confuses short-term and long-term memory, creating the feeling that the current experience ties to something old in your long-term memory, when really it was just a short-term memory that got lost in the circuits of your mind. Similar stuff here: Wiki on Deja Vu.
Anyway. Has some tie-ins to dreaming on that page too.

I don't know ,the only problem I feel about it is that when you die you will forget about all your loved ones and friends.

Oh well thats life (my attempt at trying to be funny )

http://www.skepticalinvestigations.o.../stevenson.htm

please read about xenoglossy, this guy is fantastic. his book is very interesting and provides a great scientific anecdotal exploration of reincarnation from a non-biased scientist not some freaky mystic wierdo.

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If populations tend to grow over time, there is a constant need for &#39;new&#39; souls. So the majority of people alive today did not have a past life, they are a first round humans. This is especially true in souls are unique to humans.[/b]

This argument is still fallacious. We do not know for certain that all populations keep growing. There is plenty of evidence that our civilization will experience a population crash in the near future. If civilizations grow and collapse across the universe in cycles, it&#39;s likely that the balance of souls is maintained.

I don&#39;t believe so because it&#39;d mean there&#39;s some sort of forced destiny when it comes to creating life, and it also puts down harsh limitations on what is life and what isn&#39;t, and if there&#39;s anything I figured out it&#39;s that there is no line between alive and not alive, it&#39;s more like a spectrum. I also believe invidividual cells are independently alive and that in a way life forms are mostly colonies of cells. The idea of a soul sort of contradicts that. I would like for something to be there after I die but I&#39;m not holding my breath or putting my faith into something like reincarnation, I&#39;d rather just live this life to the fullest I can with the expectation that it&#39;s most likely all I get.

Yeah, I believe in pastlife
I don&#39;t know I have this feeling maybe I lived before???

No I do not. Quite simply becouse I do not believe in souls. It&#39;s kind of illogical that your &#39;magical essence&#39; can just &#39;flow though the magical air&#39; towards some &#39;paradise/hell/new body&#39;.

Bunch of crap. Illogical.

It&#39;s hard to even justify beliving in both evolution and reincarnation: Do animals have souls? Do single-celles organisms? How did the &#39;soul&#39; evolve and why?

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Clearly this is the same as religion, people just make shit up becouse it feels all right and happy. Allso really annoys me that there will allways be people that &#39;just have this feeling&#39; and have that &#39;I just know there has to be something&#39; crap. You can&#39;t prove them wrong.

Invisible pink unicorn. Proove ME wrong, bitch. The flying spagetti monster. Proove ME wrong, bitch.

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End of my rand on the un-cool kind of hippies.

Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives By Michael Duff Newton

JOURNEY OF SOULS

I bought this book
I haven&#39;t finshed reading it yet ...but it looks like it&#39;s a great one

The only way right now I could possibly believe in past lives is if the universe is constantly expanding and contracting. Kind of like as if God was hitting the reset button every once in a while to start his master plan over.

Then I could very possible. Hell, this could the 7008th time around, but we&#39;ll never know, because we&#39;d always be stuck in "the now" if this is how things worked.

I believe in them. I&#39;m think I can remember three because of very vivid dreams I had. I died in all of them and the feelings around the dreams were just very intense. In what I consider my main past life dream.. it actually showed me how I got my three major birthmarks which I have now. Thats kinda why I also looked at it as a past life dream because in the dream I was killed with arrows kinda and I was shot in the places where my birthmarks are. Two of the birthmarks are on both sides of my neck and they actually line up pretty straight.. like after the first arrow hit I basically ended up on the ground not being able to feel my body while I was choking on blood. I remember seeing my blood all over the grass but I was very happy because I had died... running.. in away

I&#39;ve never forgotten that dream and never will because it had my family in it and I think it was my brother who killed me. But I deseved it kinda.

I believe it is a possibility.