The thought of reincarnation is very inspiring...

[SoCal1990]

As long as you don't come back as a cockroach, a Bangkok sewer rat, or a 3-legged soi dog. 

 

But what are your options? And who decides?

[Harrisfan]

Nah it would be boring unless you are a great animal.

[lamyai3]

Well if you believe in reincarnation you'd also believe in karma, so I guess it's you who decides. 

[Hellfire]

1 hour ago, SoCal1990 said:

As long as you don't come back as a cockroach, a Bangkok sewer rat, or a 3-legged soi dog. 

 

But what are your options? And who decides?

Such a childish idea… We obviously rot when we die. Inspiring my ass.

[daveAustin]

^^ Flesh is flesh and everything rots, but who’s to say what the universe has in store? Humans can be terribly shortsighted and don’t really know wt F is going on even right in front of them at the best of times. That it made the atom and can build the brain that it is aware that it’s aware is incredible. Then there’s the quantum world—‘something from nothing’ and the rest of it. What if there’s a spiritual realm? People will discount it out of hand, but something could easily be going on behind the curtain. 
 

Personally, the thought of being reincarnated is horrifying. Coming back as a cockroach or rat might not be so bad. Op is looking at it from the perspective of a highly advanced emotional brain. It might be bliss. But being brought back as a disabled, abused kid to parents in Gaza, for example… no thanks, I’d sooner there be nothingness like our friend alludes to above.

 

Who decides? Apparently, if you’re into all that, there is no choice, the soul does. The thinking is, if it hasn’t grown or gotten much out of this time (let’s face it, most people bumble through life with the blinkers on achieving little), or overcome suffering or become enlightened etc, then you’ll be thrown back into the mix. You wouldn’t carry any of this knowledge through since what would be the point. With that, logically 😋 if you don’t want to come back, do your darnedest to overcome any struggle through awareness, become enlightened, definitely don’t top yourself.

Happy Saturday. 🙂

[Celsius]

Already a dumb thread.

 

How can you be reborn if asteroid hits the earth or Purin launches the nukes?

 

If reincarnation truly exists then being reborn as cokroach or a rat is irrelevant. As space and time only matters to humans to help us navigate through this chaos you will probably be "reborn" trillions of years from now in another universe as something that probably won't even resemble a life form on earth.

[theshu25]

I want to come back as a table mat. Wiped down and pulled of 3 times a day.

[papa al]

If one is righteous,

(s)he will be reincarnated in about 7-10 days.

The spirit guide will show you several 

pregnant ladies and

you can choose.

Not sure the procedure for un-righteious.

[save the frogs]

Watch what you do.

 

Maybe you will be re-born in a war torn part of the world and have bombs over your head every day. 

 

 

[quake]

You think to mut. 

[Hummin]

7 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

Well if you believe in reincarnation you'd also believe in karma, so I guess it's you who decides. 

No hope there 

[dinsdale]

Ah! The idea of reincarnation is just another method of social control. Bit like be good and you go to heaven be bad and you go to hell. Complete nonsense. 

[Hummin]

4 hours ago, Celsius said:

Already a dumb thread.

 

How can you be reborn if asteroid hits the earth or Purin launches the nukes?

 

If reincarnation truly exists then being reborn as cokroach or a rat is irrelevant. As space and time only matters to humans to help us navigate through this chaos you will probably be "reborn" trillions of years from now in another universe as something that probably won't even resemble a life form on earth.

If reincarnation is a thing, I guess the universe or even multiverses got billions of habitated planets.

 

Everything is one you know

 

The idea that everything is one and reincarnates within the universe is a concept found in various spiritual and philosophical traditions, particularly those that embrace cyclical views of existence. It suggests that the universe is not a linear progression with a beginning and end, but rather a continuous cycle of creation, destruction, and rebirth. This could mean that individual consciousness, or perhaps the fundamental building blocks of existence, are recycled or reborn in different forms throughout these cycles. 

 

The concept "everything is one" refers to the idea that all things in the universe are interconnected and ultimately part of a single, unified whole. It suggests that the perceived separation between individual entities, including humans, is an illusion, and that everything shares a fundamental unity. This concept is explored in various philosophical and spiritual traditions, often emphasizing interconnectedness, interdependence, and a sense of shared existence. 

[Quentin Zen]

My last life I had over 764,000 comments.    wow.  

 

Yes, if only I could do it all over again, I'd really work hard, strive to be the best, help the planet and be kind to others.

 

But I just turned 19 and I really need a new BMW.   Next life, I promise.  

 

Wow, amazing.  

[blaze master]

A light hearted thread taken over by a bunch of fun sponges.They were clearly something far far greater in their past incarnation.

 

Ok back to soi 6 I go for enlightenment.

[ColeBOzbourne]

5 hours ago, theshu25 said:

I want to come back as a table mat. Wiped down and pulled of 3 times a day.

I want to come back as a ladies' bicycle seat. 

[Baht Simpson]

I'm so unlucky I'll probably come back as myself. 😞 

[bendejo]

You should have met my ex-wife.  She was a re-incarnated samurai in one life, and a ninja in another.  She told me this herself.  So when she would blow sh_t fits she said she couldn't  be held responsible because of this (with no acknowledgement of the 3 glasses of wine).  She was another of these executive types who wanted to rule the world.

 

[Lacessit]

I don't want to come back.

 

I want to be reborn as a pure mentality, like Arthur C Clarke's novel.

 

 

[1FinickyOne]

6 hours ago, daveAustin said:

something could easily be going on behind the curtain. 

But the Great Oz was fiction - - - whereas the poor lady selling bananas was real... 

[1FinickyOne]

46 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

I want to come back as a ladies' bicycle seat. 

And hope that her husband doesn't borrow the bike?

[spidermike007]

I find it very inspiring and having studied Hinduism and read a lot of ancient Hindu scripture it makes a lot of sense. The idea of a six year old Mozart sitting down and composing concerto's? I don't think happens in a vacuum. The treatises say that we take that mastery with us, that the soul carries it for and that you end up being born with a great talent or a great gift. That to me makes a lot of sense, disappearing into a void of nothingness? Nah, I don't need that level of hopelessness. 

 

In regard to coming back as an animal or an insect according to the Hindus that's called transgression, not reincarnation and it only happens to those who have really truly misbehaved, in a horrific manner. 

 

Like Amin, Castro, Hun Sen, Marcos, Mugabe, Stalin, Hitler, and quite possibly Trump and Miller, who have behaved in a truly heinous fashion, or imposed a tremendous amount of suffering on the poorest of the poor, throughout the world. 

[newbee2022]

15 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Nah it would be boring unless you are a great animal.

A donkey, a camel, or elephant?

Which one would be your choice?