Question for Reincarnation believers on the OT

It's kinda like the DMV

If reincarnation is a thing, your next life would happen immediately, from your perspective. There would be no concept of time or space or anything once you die. It's just nothing.

You have to go through the gender reassignment process first

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Do you think the reincarnation happens immediately after death or is there some type of waiting period?

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Not sure, but a team of scientists did somewhat of a global census a few years ago and they found that if you pinpointed the time of death of all reported cases and the time of birth of all reported cases you had a 98.5% correlation. The 1.5% was attributed to variances in the reporting rate and quality of information. It was a fascinating study I just made up.

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Do you think the reincarnation happens immediately after death or is there some type of waiting period?

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Short answer [assuming you believe in reincarnation]: It would depend on the needs of the individual soul... but it's not supposed to be instant.

My wife made an observation after watching a show or two where the subject is some kid who has inexplicable memories of being someone else in a previous life. I think we watched 2 or 3 episodes of these type shows. Invariably, there's a kid who has inexplicable knowledge of events that happened in the life of someone deceased some 20-40 years before. It would be dubious if such kids claimed to be presidents, movie stars or other notable figures. But it ends up that the memories the kids recall end up aligning to an uncanny degree with some regular person that the kid would would not likely have any familiarity with. My wife's observation: I think in every instance in these shows, when the kid think's he or she was someone else at an early age, the person they believed they were had died in some sort of tragic accident. (***Note for those who rigidly disbelieve everything outside their own experience: This is just her observation from seeing four or five examples that got selected for these shows. It is far from scientific proof and I, too, would be curious to see what case studies may have left out.) If-- and it's a huge if-- there's merit to her observation, it would suggest these specific cases went 1-2 generations before reincarnating. It would also suggest that people whose lives are cut off before finishing their business might be a little more likely to reincarnate with residual memories.

As for my beliefs, I'm a Christian, but have some passing familiarity with some non-Christian schools of thought on the subject. Generally, such systems suggest the more advanced the soul, the greater the flexibility (read: freedom) such a soul should have from the need or choice to incarnate. This also implicitly suggests the less advanced, the more you have to return to have certain experiences and learn certain lessons and the less say your soul would have in the matter.

Though Christianity doesn't openly seem to support the idea of reincarnation, the Bible riffs on the idea enough to make the idea of reincarnation worthy of consideration-- notably allusions in Biblical accounts where people wonder if some character is a reincarnation of some previous prophet, like John the Baptist and/or Jesus being the return of Elijah.

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