Reincarnation

Quote: rxwine

I remember reading the stories of past lives long time ago, but hadn't run across anyone studying it in an academic way.

It surprised me also. It's something I've
always wondered about, my dad was a
big Edgar Cayce fan when I was a kid.
I know about regression, but I always
considered that a flawed way to get
information.

The way the UofV has approached it is
the right way. It leaves little room for
error, and shows beyond doubt that
there is something to reincarnation
after all.

I've wondered all my life why people
don't really worry about their loved
ones after they die. I've never heard
anybody say, wringing their hands in
anguish, that they worry that their son/
husband/father didn't end up in hell.
Or that they hope they're all right,
wherever they are. It's like they know
everything is OK, no need to worry.

I never think about all the people I've
known that are gone. It's like I instinctively
know they're OK, I don't have to worry,
they've moved on. If this research is correct,
and my gut tells me it is, they have indeed
moved on.

I reserve judgment for further investigation. Now if someone comes along and can point out where to dig for a pharaoh's treasure, that would pretty cool.

In fact, lots of things have been lost, and perhaps are as near as a few feet under the soil somewhere.

An interesting talk about the research by
a PhD that admires Stevenson's work. I
have felt since I was a kid that reincarnation
would explain the unfairness of life. How
one child is born perfect, and another has
crippling defects. On the next rebirth, it
will be entirely different. On and on, the
mystery of life unfolds itself.

Nobody can dismiss this research and it's
findings, unless you have an axe to grind.
Which many people do, unfortunately.

Speaking of Reincarnation , Tim Tebow just signed with Philly!!!

Quote: Tropicalelectri

Speaking of Reincarnation , Tim Tebow just signed with Philly!!!

I'd like to enter a pool as to how long he'll last. I'm predicting he'll be cut before the season starts.

People who believe they had an earlier life never seem to choose to have been murderers or scallywags.
Indonesia executes so many possibly because they believe they will come back as a bug; that its not really death.
Its all absurd of course.

And about as provable as the proper way to wear a hat.

Quote: rxwine

Now if someone comes along and can point out where to dig for a pharaoh's treasure, that would pretty cool.

In the pharaoh's tomb, whatever it might be and wherever it happens to be.

The problem is grave robbers have likely already been there.

Now, if I were Cleopatra's reincarnation, I'd be able to tell you where Alexander's tomb was. That would be worth knowing.

Quote: Fleastiff

People who believe they had an earlier life never seem to choose to have been murderers or scallywags.
.

That's because adults have no idea what
they did last time. Some of the kids who
remember did indeed have a previous
nefarious life.

The research scientists say reincarnation is
not provable, but the evidence strongly
points to it. They use tobacco as an example.
There is no proof that it causes cancer, yet
the evidence saying it does is irrefutable.
They say much of medicine is not based on
proof, but on volumes of evidence.

FrG keeps saying creation is evidence that there
is a god. Problem is, there's no evidence that it
is a creation.

Here's what Billy Graham says about reincarnation:

"No matter how long we lived—or how many lives we had—we could never erase the stain of sin that keeps us from God. In other words, we could never reach perfection. But God loves us and has provided the way for all our sins to be forgiven. That way is Jesus Christ, who died as the one final sacrifice for our sins."

That pesky sin, just can't shake it. I saw
this coming a mile away..

Henry Ford on reincarnation in 1928:

"I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was 26. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. The discovery of Reincarnation put my mind at ease. If you preserve a record of this conversation, write it so that it puts men's minds at ease. I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us."