Do you believe in reincarnation?

[Jolly1112]

Ever since I was a child, I remember getting a strong feeling whenever we drove past a corn field with images of a man with long blonde hair chasing me and me feeling panicked,

I've always put this down to past life (may sound silly) and that we are constantly reborn,
The only thing that puts me off this theory is whether we only come back as humans or other animals too,

Oohh what's the physics reason?

Can you elaborate?

Sounding kinda hangry 🤣🤣

Well, aside from the physiological fact that your body decomposes, there is no such thing as a soul, nor anything else to reincarnate to
The phyics are pretty much the same as those applied to time travel. Not possible

Hah! I like your username.

Who was your son for the first three months of his own life then? Surely if your son was the reincarnation of your dad, then your son wouldn't have been three months old when your dad died? He would have been born as your dad was dying. Think about that one, while your dad was dying you were giving birth to your own dad again. 😱

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i think the people talking about energy are (wilfully) misunderstanding the conservation of energy.

I admit I did , although not wilfully (and I quoted the wrong poster).

Surely conceived at the moment of death?

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I'm not woo at all, but I do believe in reincarnation. I have no rational reason for this, just took psychedelics for a while and that was one of my conclusions from it. We have no evidence or possible mechanism for reincarnation but I also think the universe and its workings are way beyond the understanding of human beings.

I don't think we are reincarnated with existing personality as such. An essence of us is reborn, to learn more lessons through living a human life. Different genetics and environment will give the kind of personality and situation to give the best chance of learning the lessons you have decided on before rebirth. I know some see that view as offensive, but I see it as part of being human - that some will have difficult situations, and a test of humanity is to learn and help each other.

I have no children, not through choice. I feel like in a previous life I may have had lots of children, and no time for my own creative life. So for this life I asked for all the time possible for creativity, and not to have children, just to see how that would work out for me, what I would learn etc. I draw some comfort from the fact I might have chosen my own path, for reasons not now known to me.

i think the people talking about energy are (wilfully) misunderstanding the conservation of energy.
Either that or woeful scientific illiteracy.

Our consciousness needs energy to operate, signalling between neurons etc. Mostly that's provided by sugar. There's no magic specialness to it. Dying is I suppose a bit like turning off a computer and then letting it decay.
It's not the 'energy' which is special,it's the processes that operate while we're alive that matter.

No but I understand it's making a comeback.

Boom tish!

I think we are way off fully understanding much of our existence including brain function and death.

Blithely stating that there is no such thing as reincarnation or any other weirdness seems a bit arrogant given that honestly we just don't know.

People talk about science, but given that scientific enquiry across all fields is being pursued and expanded all the time and turning up new stuff I think a certain amount of open minded scepticism is required.

There are some fascinating stories out there about re-incarnation - yes children have wild imaginations, but some of the specifics in some of the stories are beyond the realms of coincidence.

I've experienced plenty of oddness in my life. Some of the coincidence / synchronicity stuff is beyond explanation.

Energy, consciousness, everything could well be "entangled". Even Einstein was open minded about this sort of thing.

If we had "all the answers" I think life would be pretty boring to be honest.

I think we are way off fully understanding much of our existence including brain function and death.

Blithely stating that there is no such thing as reincarnation or any other weirdness seems a bit arrogant given that honestly we just don't know.

No. Just because we don't know everything doesn't mean we know nothing. We know an awful lot about brain function and death. Far, far more than what was known thousands of years ago when ideas about an afterlife or reincarnation appeared. And there has been no evidence for any of it since.

Yes, I believe in reincarnation.
I believe animals reincarnate as well. All living beings do.
To me, it's the only thing that makes any sense. Others think it is nonsense and that's fine. Would be a boring old world if we were all the same.

To me, it's the only thing that makes any sense.

This is one of the reasons that ideas like this continue. People like things to make sense. They don't like the idea that there isn't a point to life, that the universe doesn't have a purpose.

You can't experience it, because you don't exist. Just like you didn't exist before you were born.

I don't believe in any form of afterlife. Our "soul" is just a bunch of electrical impulses piloting a robot made of meat. The electrical impulses stop, we cease to exist.

Do you believe that it’s sugar that make those electrical impulses work, in our body of meat?

Not sure what you mean sorry. There's hundreds of different chemicals that make up our bodies, some of which will be sugars. The absence of most of them would kill us, meaning no more electrical impulses.

How do we know that the science is correct? We actually know shite all

I was just reiterating what another poster had said further up the thread, that it’s sugar that fires the impulses. I do not claim to be scientific at all so tend to take posters who claim to be, at their word.

Ah right, I missed that post. Biology is not my strong suit either!

Ultimately a lot of beliefs have no proven foundation- god(s) after life, karma, spirits etc

ultimately we have to go with our gut instinct.

i have deliberated whether these beliefs make us feel better about dying.