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Hi stevie60, Your questions are valid and many ask the same thing.
This is my input: Ask someone that knows.
Or read someone that knows.
Here you will get opinions and speculation from many that don't even know a thing
about how anything works...and thus, you perpetuate the confusion.
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That's me told.
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In fact, there are 15 dead people for every person living. ..
After my neighbour's jihaddist chanting till 2 in the morning last night, I'm looking at making it i6.
Oh dang. I wanted to come back as a great white shark. You might be my dinner, nate.
There's a joke. "Reincarnation":- Coming back as the buttonhole in the jacket of the groom at at your widow's wedding. But nobody gets it. Nor the one about the condensed milk that Santa feeds his caribou.
I've never heard a satisfactory explanation from believers in reincarnation for the population explosion. If the same souls are being recycled over and over, howcum the world's population has doubled in such a short time? Who is churning out billions of new souls to inhabit billions of new bodies?*
Rhetorical. I know believers think a god is cranking them out at the heavenly soul factory.
I believe reincarnation is a choice, not a requirement. Not every person shares their soul with another. I do not believe we return as bugs or animals, unless we really, really, want to.
I have two vivid shared past life memories. It was an odd experience.
I lean toward there being "something" to this because of stories from family and friends that are not easily dismissable, but I don't know any more than anybody else does.
A psychic recently told me she saw me washing dishes at what appeared to be a convent in medieval times. She said I was not part of the community that lived there, but that I was thinking that they were really no different from me. That was kind of depressing. The highlight of my past lives was washing dishes?
Did I resent it instead of accepting my fate? Is that why there is no dishwasher in the condo I purchased and I have to wash dishes by hand?
That's what my spiritual growth amounts to over 500 years or so?
I think your condo needs to be reincarnated as one with a dishwasher.
Hi stevie60, Your questions are valid and many ask the same thing.
This is my input: Ask someone that knows.
Or read someone that knows.
Here you will get opinions and speculation from many that don't even know a thing
about how anything works...and thus, you perpetuate the confusion.
If you care to I could give you a list of books privately, just ask.
I started reading about the Afterlife in the 70s...sometimes I think I have read every NDE and
every detailed book written from 'the Other Side' messages.
I myself was shocked to experience a past life "scene" that blew my socks off...and another and another....
all reflecting lessons..and giving me insight into what an amazingly slow learner I am.
PS You willl find out God is not a pr*ck.
Best wishes on your research.
Oh, eventually you will find instructions (books) on how to speed up things so you can finally
'not need' to come back to this place anymore. Sound exciting? It is. Simple instructions in English..
Who would have thought !
Good advice. The subject is so complicated, ultimately beyond human reason. People want simple answers, but these questions require a lot of thought and studying.
The atheist/materialist here only know what they were taught about religion as children, followed by the New Atheists. There are whole worlds of information they have never heard of.
I believe reincarnation is a choice, not a requirement. Not every person shares their soul with another. I do not believe we return as bugs or animals, unless we really, really, want to.
I have two vivid shared past life memories. It was an odd experience.
I read quite a few of these 'past-life memories' when they caught the public imagination. I'd just ask -what made you identify these mental ocurrences as some kind of past life?
I read quite a few of these 'past-life memories' when they caught the public imagination. I'd just ask -what made you identify these mental ocurrences as some kind of past life?
I do not know what you have read. I have not read up on the experiences of others. I have not sought past life regression by a psychic or medium.
My best description is you are outside of yourself while watching yourself. No drugs involved, either.
The experience was vivid, and strange. The experience was odd.
There's a joke. "Reincarnation":- Coming back as the buttonhole in the jacket of the groom at at your widow's wedding. But nobody gets it. Nor the one about the condensed milk that Santa feeds his caribou.
I got it, I got it!
You'd fit right in with my siblings.
I think I told this one before. A pub owner's dog dies. In his memory, the pub owner cuts off the dead dog's tail, hangs it up behind the bar, and then buries the rest of him. The dog goes to heaven, but St. Peter won't let him in without his tail and sends him back to earth to get it.
The dog shows up at the bar and demands his tail back, but the bartender says, "Sorry, we don't retail spirits here."
The meaning of the word for reincarnation in sanskrit (punar-janma) is to be "born once again." The goal of life is to stop being born again. Karma is the cause of suffering - natural consequence of our acts (karma) good and bad. Every act has consequences that need to be endured. Once you have discharged the consequences and act in a way that does not cause more consequences, you will merge with the creative energy, or God, and just be in bliss.
So suffering can mean that your karma is being discharged. Think of it as a sort of penance which purifies you, takes you closer to the bliss of never being born again.
I think your condo needs to be reincarnated as one with a dishwasher.
It had one once. The previous owners must have removed it and put drawers where it used to be. When I bought the place, the inspector noted that and said it would not be difficult to take the drawers out and install a new dishwasher. I've been living alone here except for brief periods when my daughter was between college years or returned from her overseas adventures, so I haven't felt the need.
But I do want it to be enlightened. I plan to get a light for under the cabinet over the sink.
We'd better stop before the mods realize that we're way off-topic.
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