Topic 23 of 52: reincarnation
Sun, Sep 14, 1997 (14:47) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Reincarnation, is it real? Does it follow with Buddhist teachings?
14 responses total.
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 1 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Sep 14, 1997 (14:50) * 19 lines
Question:
Is belief in reincarnation is not limited to Hinduism and
Buddhism. Many traditional cultures share that belief, and early
Christianity also shared the belief in reincarnation.
from Tom Carr (tomcarr@well.com):
True enough, but so what ? There are lots of ideas that are common to traditional cultures that are not true.
For example, the idea that they are the chosen people,
the only civilized race, the master race, the only true people and so on.
For example, the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.
I could go on and on with a little research. The point is that just because lots of old cultures believed something is not evidence that it is true.
This idea that there is some relevance to the fact that lots of traditional cultures believed in reincarnation pops up again and again
in the discussion. I don't think it is relevant.
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 2 of 14: KitchenManager (KitchenManager) * Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (01:32) * 8 lines
About reincarnation:
If we can ever scientifically prove it exists, wouldn't it
abolish the death penalty? And what kind of weird spin would
it put on life and consecutive life sentences?
Imagine the machine we would want hooked up to Charles Mansion.
WER
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 3 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (04:13) * 4 lines
I can barely imagine this scenario, kitchenmanager. And Tom Carr
has a point, the fact that a belief is well established in history
does not make it necessarily valid. There are many beliefs well
grounded in history with very little basis in fact.
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 4 of 14: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (10:27) * 2 lines
WER, you've fairly "freaked me out" with your hypothetical situation...
With religion as the oft referred to "opiate of the masses" it is no wonder multiple religious cultures have latched on to the idea that they may indeed return to a realm of familiarity after death.
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 5 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (12:05) * 2 lines
Stay calm, m'am, the spring freakout team in on the way.
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 6 of 14: KitchenManager (KitchenManager) * Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (14:09) * 13 lines
Sorry, stacey, but if I try to be
serious and stimulate(simulate?)
conversation and thought, it is
usually with some off the wall
worst case scenario, and this is
the only problem that I have with
reincarnation. And I know that faith
is not validity, that's why I threw
in the "scientifically prove" part,
although some would consider that
a belief system also...
WER
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 7 of 14: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (14:13) * 1 lines
No need to explain... being freaked out is a way to grow. I don't mind it.
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 8 of 14: KitchenManager (KitchenManager) * Thu, Oct 23, 1997 (14:32) * 3 lines
Oh, goody,...
WER
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 9 of 14: David de Void (ddv) * Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (13:33) * 23 lines
Hi,
I'm new here and my main interest is the "Zero" topic, but I was
exploring around and figured I'd say Hello.
Zero has something which is very similar in nature to Reincarnation,
it's called Regeneration. Regeneration states that we can be seen
as a collection of patterns and that these patterns will reappear
in other individuals. Regeneration doesn't need a "seperate essence"
which represents the Self yet is not the body.
I'm going to try to include a link to the page on Regeneration, but I
don't know how HTML gets processed on this board. I'll include ascii
text of the link just in case.
Death
http://home1.gte.net/dleeper/ZDeath.html
Let me know what you think of the idea!
=-=
David de Void
Homo Deus
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 10 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (17:21) * 9 lines
html gets auto processed. just list the url
like this:
http://www.minds.org
That's all you need. Of course the way you did it will work.
Glad you're here!
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 11 of 14: David de Void (ddv) * Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (17:47) * 7 lines
> Glad you're here!
Thanks. Is there any way to have Sub-Topics within a topic?
=-=
David de Void
Homo Deus
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 12 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (19:15) * 1 lines
No, we're nonthreaded. Do you need a threaded playground?
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 13 of 14: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (11:15) * 1 lines
Is that an innuendo?
Topic 23 of 52 [spirit]: reincarnation
Response 14 of 14: David de Void (ddv) * Wed, Oct 29, 1997 (17:45) * 4 lines
: No, we're nonthreaded. Do you need a threaded playground?
Well, I'm trying to figure out the best way to introduce some of Zero's
ideas to people. It's new stuff, so people won't even know what to ask.
spirit conference 
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