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,

Should have mentioned that this happens over and over again.

No. When we die that is it. Nothing happens. We just cease to be.

The thing is, you read books written by other people who claim to have done ‘tests’ and use some algorithms and scientific ‘data’ which ‘proves’ this, that and the other but does it really?

Yes, I know you’re astounded that anyone can be that ‘thick’ to even question your science, after all, where would that leave you scientists?!

Scientists are arrogant, prideful people who believe everything they read in their hero's books and look down their snotty noses at those who don’t. People only have to read your posts at the beginning of this thread to see how prideful and disdainful you are.

Anthony Peake who has precisely zero medical, neurological, or psychological qualifications, but doesn’t let that stop him shoehorning in imperfectly understood scientific theories, in many cases thoroughly debunked, in support of his personal pet hobby horse?

Honestly, he’s like loony Uncle Fred who gets you in the corner at family gatherings to talk about Qanon and satanic cabals and the royal family being lizards.

You said sugar, then you said glucose.
Oh fgs, I used the general classification sugar for simplicity, then the specific sugar later. Does anyone really not know that glucose is a sugar? You seem to so I'm really not sure why you're labouring this.

Yes, I know you’re astounded that anyone can be that ‘thick’ to even question your science, after all, where would that leave you scientists?!

On the contrary, science is a continuous process of questioning.

Scientists are arrogant, prideful people who believe everything they read in their hero's books and look down their snotty noses at those who don’t. People only have to read your posts at the beginning of this thread to see how prideful and disdainful you are.

Nope. Scientists know there's a lot we don't know (but that doesn't mean we know bugger all!) - and want to find out more. It's about asking questions, looking for evidence, testing, being prepared to throw out an idea if it's falsified. Very different to anything which relies on belief (let alone religious 'revealed truth')

Auntimabelsbudgie,
And anyone else who categorically denies reincarnation -

That's a several religions debunked then, and several million? billion? people are entirely wrong

I believe OP.

But I love my Loony Uncle Fred! He's far more interesting to talk to than Boring Uncle Alf the scientist. 🤣🤣

I didn't say that I believed any of what he says. I did find the book incredibly fun to read. There were so many questions left unanswered. I also love a conspiracy theory. Again I don't believe them.

Uh, scientists are people who develop and test knowledge about how the physical universe operates. They’re interested in working hypotheses, observation, experiment, objectivity, and proof. You owe a scientist your vaccinations, your electricity, your appendectomy, your flight to Madrid etc etc. They’re not some specific personality type.

That's a several religions debunked then, and several million? billion? people are entirely wrong

Well, that has to be the case anyway as only one, if any, religion can be correct. If Hindus are right, then billions of Christians must be wrong, etc.

No evidence doesn't meant that something doesn't exist. Science hasn't been able to disprove reincarnation either. I don't necessarily believe that reincaration exists, but I'm opened minded about it because we don't really know either way.

Science is about testing, proving and debunking. But what is tested is very much controlled by a small elite with money and power. Look at what has happened in the past ten years with universities and gender/sex.

I might not believe in reincarnation but I don't believe for a second that the "science" of consciousness is as robust as it could be.

I have no belief in religion. This isn’t either/or. Nor do I follow what is now know as ‘woo’. None of that interests me. What I really do not like is you and your fellow scientists being arrogant. You may think you have the answers to life’s mysteries, you really don’t. I suggest you treat people with the respect you feel you have the right to claim, instead of being rude and patronising as you were at the start of this thread. Try being humble for a change, it’s polite.

UH, never said they were.

This kind of nonsense really doesn’t deserve anyone performing ‘humility’.

I agree with you.

Madness isn’t it! How can anyone not see it is merely a form of control?

KrisAkabusi · Today 16:18
That's a several religions debunked then, and several million? billion? people are entirely wrong

'Well, that has to be the case anyway as only one, if any, religion can be correct. If Hindus are right, then billions of Christians must be wrong, etc.'

Prove it. Prove only one religion/belief if any, can be correct.
Prove one does not exist because another does.
Prove that we do not get whatever we believe in after death, be it heaven, reincarnation or spirit.
The only thing we can prove is that none of us know.

Calm down everyone. It's all just a simulation anyway.

I believe in the evolution of the soul. A soul must experience all sorts of things in order to achieve enlightenment and move to paradise (like Buddhism). Maybe it's just comforting, I've had so much abuse and trauma I've often thought I decided to get all the crap done in one life 😂 though I've had experiences that make me think I've been here before.
I do believe some people are old souls, mature and wise beyond years and experience. Some people are also clearly young souls. When you meet someone and just click, you probably met them before!
There is also much belief in spiritual communities that some disabilities such as Downs Syndrome are very evolved souls, seeing the world in a way we could never understand.
No, we'll never know what's on the other side until we're there, but that's why it's belief, it's faith, not fact.

Prove it. Prove only one religion/belief if any, can be correct.

Logic? The world can't have been created by God and Vishnu and Zeus etc. Logically only a maximum of one can be correct.

'Madness isn’t it! How can anyone not see it is merely a form of control?'

Never been controlled by my religion. I don't steal or kill people, but I frequently covet.

Conservation of energy/matter sort of implies that 'stuff' is neither created nor destroyed.... so if you think of it that way, we're all reincarnated into something! When we die (say, cremated), our carbon enters the air, is taken up by plants and we eat the plants... so we are, in effect, someone else already.

Or maybe they're all the inventions of psychedelic drug addled pre-historic people.