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re: Does anyone here believe in reincarnation?
Posted on 5/18/16 at 1:57 pm to Black n Gold
Posted on 5/18/16 at 1:57 pm to Black n Gold
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In order to believe in reincarnation, wouldn't one have to be neither religious or atheist?
There's nothing about reincarnation that would preclude being religious. Unless you consider being Hindu "not religious"...????
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Posted on 5/18/16 at 1:59 pm to skrayper
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Unless you consider being Hindu "not religious"...????
I don't know anyone who considers Hindus religious. They're not religious people.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:02 pm to LucasP
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I don't know anyone who considers Hindus religious. They're not religious people.
I'm not entirely sure how to respond to telling a billion people belonging to a specific *religion* as not being *religious*.
Does "religious" mean something other than "believing in a religion" to you?
I can worship my ingrown toenail and be religious.
quote:
Religious - adj - relating to or believing in a religion.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:06 pm to skrayper
Per Webster's: Religion-believing in God
Hindus don't believe in God, they believe in a bunch of stuff but God ain't part of it. Google it.
Hindus don't believe in God, they believe in a bunch of stuff but God ain't part of it. Google it.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:08 pm to Tiger Ryno
Have you ever seen grass growing at a cemetery? That's reincarnation at work right there.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:13 pm to boddagetta
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Have you ever seen grass growing at a cemetery? That's reincarnation at work right there.
I get your point, but with modern coffins and embalming techniques, there's very little chance that anyone buried is providing nutrition to the grass.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:15 pm to LucasP
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Per Webster's: Religion-believing in God
Um, NO.
Religious per Websters
quote:
relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity
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of, relating to, or devoted to religious beliefs or observances
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believing in a god or a group of gods and following the rules of a religion
Hindus believe in a pantheon of gods, including Krishna (the blue one with the flute), Kali (the 6 armed goddess), Ganesha (the one with the elephant head).
Being religious isn't a "God's only club".
Anyway, the major religions that believe in some form of reincarnation are:
Hinduism
Jainism
Bhuddism
Sikhism
So, if you know a Hindu or a Bhuddist, you know someone who at least belongs to a following that believes in reincarnation.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:17 pm to LucasP
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I get your point, but with modern coffins and embalming techniques, there's very little chance that anyone buried is providing nutrition to the grass lately.
FIFY
Your dead ancestors who lacked the fancy modern caskets & embalming is what is what provides the nutrition.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:18 pm to skrayper
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:30 pm to Tiger Ryno
I just hope I'm not reincarnation as my chair cushion. That would be wrong.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:33 pm to skrayper
Just to clarify for anyone confused by this poster's misinformation.
Not a religion
A religion
A religion
Not a religion, respectively.
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Hinduism
Jainism
Bhuddism
Sikhism
Not a religion
A religion
A religion
Not a religion, respectively.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 2:53 pm to Tiger Ryno
Posted on 5/18/16 at 3:12 pm to Black n Gold
Dude, you do realize that there are major world religions that believe in it, therefore you CAN be quite "religious" and believe in it.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 3:30 pm to LucasP
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Hinduism
quote:
Not a religion
Has deities
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Bhuddism
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A religion
Does not have deities
Considering you stated it involves "Believing in God", you pretty much just shot down your first argument trying to make this one.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 3:38 pm to skrayper
Wrong again. Google bro.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 4:19 pm to Tiger Ryno
I not only believe in it, I know it to be true. Study the right information and meet the right people and you will come to the same conclusion.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 5:49 pm to Barf
And I'll be back again and again and again and again and again.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 6:10 pm to MottLaneKid
It's illogical because population increases. There would have to be a constant number of things to inhabit for reincarnation to be reasonable.
Reincarnation is retarded.
Reincarnation is retarded.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 6:17 pm to tuptiger
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It's illogical because population increases. There would have to be a constant number of things to inhabit for reincarnation to be reasonable.
In all seriousness.
This is a pretty dumb argument. There's a really cool short story called "The Egg", it's about a page and a half. But it explains this pretty well.
Long story short, if you can be placed into another life then there's nothing to say that life has to be in the future so you could actually be reincarnated into a past lifetime or even a concurrent one. Using restraints like time and causality to debunk something like reincarnation is a pretty silly and fruitless exercise.
Posted on 5/18/16 at 6:24 pm to LucasP
So, you believe in parallel existence because the only way to explain a finite number of souls given the population increases and decreases over time. The Egg must science fiction.
I think it's personally ridiculous to believe in this given there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of parallel universes.
I think it's personally ridiculous to believe in this given there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of parallel universes.
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