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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  Actually, the reincarnation concept is a much more Buddhist/Hindu one than a Christian one.
Of course, if you still say: "Nonsense. Total rubbish", you are probably dismissing, in one fell swoop:
two or three major religions; lots of spiritual teachings that don't subscribe to any particular religion; a lot of research into phenomena like past-life regression hypnosis and near-death experiences etc.
I'm not telling you what to believe or not believe. I'm just pointing out the implications, when you casually dismiss, at one single go, impaul99's explanation, ""Nonsense. Total rubbish". |
I am always amazed by people's need to believe that they are doomed in this life from the get-go. I refer to it as the "guilt fetish". Whether it's because of Original Sin or having been Hitler in a previous life, it's all the same fetish for self-flagellation.
I spent 12 years in a private Catholic boys' school thinking "The only thing I'm guilty of is having been born. The rest is all a blank slate."
Here's another interpretation of suffering. We are biological creatures in a physical world who are programmed to live for about 70 years. During that period both good and bad things happen to us for readily explainable reasons. Sometimes, you really just are in the wrong place at the wrong time. The scum who murdered the little girl probably stalked her for weeks until an opportunity presented itself for abduction.
I suggest that people read the thoughts of physicists on this issue. Many will tell you that what strikes them the most about the universe is its utter indifference to us.
Occam's Razor, folks. Use it.
