Do you believe in reincarnation?

I believe that everyone comes back as a metal. You do know that gold and mercury are sentient, don’t you?

@daloon Ha, no I did not.

I once heard an explanation that asserted that de ja vous is simply you remembering something from a past life.

I have no proof of this and don’t really believe it – but I really hope it turns out to be true.

I do, I have no reasoning but I do believe it.

Not really, but it’s fascinating to think about.

@Cprevite; you probably won’t come back as a Frenchman, but A for effort (déjà vu)

@gailcalled: Qui est une honte que j’aime les crêpes.

I can incarnate more than once but I need a little time between incarnations if ya know what i mean

@Blondesjon: Purgatory doesn’t sound so bad if you reframe it as a refractory period.

@cp: Comment?

@cprevite…Excellent alliteration but no 20/20 hindsight for this little brown bear.

Qu’est que une “honte”?

I believe that I will be transformed into nutrients for the earth. And then I’ll become stardust again after Sol becomes a red star.

no

@gailcalled: I said, “That’s a shame as I love crêpes.” But I’m teasing you. My French is so terrible, I looked 90% of that up.

@aprilsimnel: Shame

nope, and the math of it simply doesn’t add up, unless you include animals and plants and minerals and things, and then it just gets ludicrous. If you are reincarnated as a rock, what would be your next incarnation?

It makes for a pretty story, but reincarnation seems highly unlikely. I remain very skeptical.

@Blondesjon: You sure you want to say “little” following your previous quip?

@evelyns_pet_zebra: So you weren’t a zebra in a previous life?

@cprevite – Oh. Bon. Merci! J’ai oublié beaucoup de mots français depuis le lycée.

@aprilsimnel: Whoa, slow down there. I missed about half that. My French is terrible.

but I am oddly aroused now

@cprevite…if it means you will keep talking about my junk, sure. :)

i’m oddly aroused now as well

@Blondesjon: Well, it may be “junk”, but apparently it recycles well.

Maybe I’ll reincarnate as a French teacher. In France.

@cprevite – Translation: I’ve forgotten a lot of French words since high school.

I have close friends who had their first child when they were in their 40s. When she was a toddler, my friend went to pick her up at day care. The teacher took him aside and said, “Bessie has been telling us that you and her mom are much nicer than her old parents. I am so happy that you adopted her.”

Puzzled, as she was their natural child, my friends spoke with her. She told them all about her old parents who were Chinese and not very nice to her.

My friends took it in stride, not making much of it and within a year or two she completely stopped talking about it and seemingly not even remembering it.

@Marina I have heard many stories like that. Children have a much better memory of being with God and of their former lives, for obvious reasons.

Being an agnostic, I’m open to suggestions. I guess anything is possible. I just live and hope for the best.

I better believe in reincarnation. I’m on my third go around right now. So far, this life has been the best one yet.

No, I don’t. I mean it’d be nice to believe in it for sure, but I simply don’t. That way I value my time here on Earth now over speculating about what will be in my reincarnated future.

I don’t believe that there’s any kind of personal essence, so I can’t imagine what it would be that would move from one existence to the next. I’m Buddhist, and I know that the idea of rebirth is heavily interwoven into Buddhist tradition, but an even more essential Buddhist teaching is that of “no self-essence”. It’s possible to observe this no-self directly, so it doesn’t require “belief”; but I can’t verify rebirth.

Besides, I don’t find the concept of rebirth to be a particularly helpful one. Even if it does happen, knowing this wouldn’t materially affect how I approach life. Understanding “no-self”, on the other hand, makes a big difference.

It’s the only “after death” scenario I believe in. It just seems to make the most sense to me. I intuitively feel like it’s true. The concept of reincarnation goes back sooo much further than the concept of the Christian heaven anyways.

Nope, I really don’t have a reason to.

I’ve developed this theory that you come back as every level of life form…So you start out as a single celled organism and if you fulfill that than next you come back as something higher up. By the time you make it to the bigger life forms it’s harder to actually fulfill your purpose…that means that you might be a really BAD human so you get demoted in your next life (sorta like karma) and that means you might be back to living life as a dog…if you do good as a dog you might get a chance as a human again the next go around…

I have no justification for this or proof or any reason to really believe that it’s true, but I like to think that we aren’t just here for one turn and that there’s a higher meaning to us being here at all.

Yes, I think you do until you fulfill your purpose on earth, so one could be here just one life, or many, until you “Git-R-done”!

i do, the concept logically fills a philosophical void, but i sense our understanding of the idea ranges from a crude fumbling in the dark to a more refined appreciation of the nuances.

I believe in butter!

I’m betting on it!

I believe that when we die, we die, and nothing happens. Not only is this what seems to happen, I see no soul, no rebirth, no heaven, just a dead body, but this is the point of view that most closely resembles scientific consensus. Of course you can’t “test” for the existence of a soul any more than you can dig a hole deep enough to reach hell. However, there is also no evidence, only myth legend and optimism, to support the belief in reincarnation. Until anything changes on the evidence front, I take the neutral position of disbelief.

It is a possibility as no one knows for sure until there time comes.

NO, not “no” but HELL NO, one of the biggest lies in all creation.