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Do You Believe in Reincarnation??
I used too but not now. When I was about 5 or 6 my mom asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, I guess according to her, a Cow! We raised cows and I liked em I guess. Later in my life I wanted to be a drake mallard duck, why? don't know. Why get shot and eaten?
Now that I don't believe in reincarnation I often wonder sitting here at the dinner table looking out the window seeing my rooster having a HAY day with his hens, lots of hens. Ok, life is short for him, 3-5 years?? Still, his is having nothing but fun, fun, fun in the sun. Kind of makes me rethink this reincarnation thing and what I'd want to be.
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Yes I do!
Because I've seen the dead come back to life at quitting time in TOO many places now, NOT to believe in it!
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Yes I do!
Because I've seen the dead come back to life at quitting time in TOO many places now, NOT to believe in it!
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To funny man!! Reminds me of when someone asked me how many employee's work here, I said, "about half". He looked at me funny.
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" Do You Believe in Reincarnation??"
Of course.
Last lifetime, I was very bad.
'Sposed to come back as a dog.
All the dog slots were taken. (spay & neuter, spay & neuter, spay & neuter, )
So, they made me human again, but I have to run this board.
However, I do save lotsa money eating dog food.....
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However, I do save lotsa money eating dog food.....
Try Geico.
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I do NOT.
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Yes. Though humans likely come back only as humans.
Check out the story of James Leininger detailed in the book "Soul Survivor" and elsewhere. It's about one young boy who, at circa age two and on, remembered bits and pieces of dying in WW2 when his Corsair was shot down.
References to reincarnation weren't scrubbed from mainstream Christianity until a Church council got around to removing it from the canon in the early middle ages.
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Nope. I don't.
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Yes, I'm coming back as a Lab.
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hofstet or foodfuzz?
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Yes I do. For the record I consider myself a religious man that goes to church quite often. I see no conflict there whatsoever.
But we don't come back as animals.
I don't think.
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reincarnation
actually i do ,being retired and still wanting to buy more S&W's. A big bag of pro-plan go's a long way to stretch the food budget . only trouble is I now bark at the mail person
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No, but if it happens I would like to come back as an MP-40.
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I do recall my Wife saying that if there is reincarnation, she wanted to come back as a Dog. But only, if she could come back as one of OUR dogs!
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Yes, I most definitely believe in reincarnation and I am sure I will come back as a fossil.
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I always loved in the movie Patton listening to him talk about being on that battlefield before. I am sap I know. Is it true, I don't know. It would be cool to get more than one chance at life. Hell, I l'd like to live forever. I want to get off this rock someday[earth].
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If there is,I want to come back as a nice big lazy house cat and just sit around and eat and sleep,boy what a life.
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"You don't have to believe in reincarnation to be reincarnated. But on the other hand, just because you believe that you will be reincarnated, doesn't mean that you will be."
I heard that somewhere, so I guess it doesn't really matter if you believe or not...
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" Do You Believe in Reincarnation??"
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Be careful -I hear the side effects are kinda tough-One guy who ate dog food to save money got run over by a car when he stopped in the street to lick his ......
Sorry....but did you really expect me to let that one go???
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KNEW it was comin'.
It's hard to pass a fire hydrant, too.
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Reincarnation
"What does Reincarnation mean?"
A cowpoke asked his friend.
His pal replied, "It happens when
Yer life has reached its end.
They comb yer hair, and warsh yer neck,
And clean yer fingernails,
And lay you in a padded box
Away from life's travails."
"The box and you goes in a hole,
That's been dug into the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when
Yore planted 'neath a mound.
Them clods melt down, just like yer box,
And you who is inside.
And then yore just beginnin' on
Yer transformation ride."
"In a while, the grass'll grow
Upon yer rendered mound.
Till some day on yer moldered grave
A lonely flower is found.
And say a hoss should wander by
And graze upon this flower
That once wuz you, but now's become
Yer vegetative bower."
"The posy that the hoss done ate
Up, with his other feed,
Makes bone, and fat, and muscle
Essential to the steed,
But some is left that he can't use
And so it passes through,
And finally lays upon the ground
This thing, that once wuz you."
"Then say, by chance, I wanders by
And sees this upon the ground,
And I ponders, and I wonders at,
This object that I found.
I thinks of reincarnation,
Of life and death, and such,
And come away concludin': 'Slim,
You ain't changed, all that much.'"
© Wallace McRae, reprinted from Cowboy Curmudgeon (1992) with permission from Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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Reincarnation
You ain't changed, all that much.'"
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If, when reincarnated, people come back as a lower life form -- this must be Obama's last trip around.
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Sure, why not? Makes as much sense as anything else.
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I believe that the spirit (soul or whatever you name it) preceeded this life and continues after. The spirit may return in another human body multiple times but not always. Each is different in it's journy through time. To many common threads in different religions to rule this out (Budests, Christians, Islam, etc.). Also, many similar experiences in "near death" instances. I was a doubter but have renued interest after the death of my 26 year old son. Talked with a family who said they could channel messages from their departed teenage son and some others. My messages predicted things that I didn't know at the time but have come true since. The family who gave me these messages did not know me or my family and there was no money or other incentive, just a one time shot out of kindness to me. Since, I have met others who have had similar experiences. These are educated and successful people, not kooks.
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Do-over?
IMNSHO, no. Can't say I want to come back; I think once is enough. Ask me again when I'm 85 and crabby(er)!
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Lee....is quoting one scripture being too "religious" for the forum? I'm bitin' my tounge off over here!!!
Well here goes: "...It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." Heb 10:27
(I figure it's easier to get forgiveness than permission)
I absolutely do not believe in reincarnation
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You guys are killin' me. Are you going to tell me that you have never had any form of sense of "jeja vu" or an eerie feeling that you have been here before...maybe even in another time?
I remember many years ago I was hunting by myself off the banks of the Salmon River in Idaho. I climbed all morning and finally made it to the peak around 8:00 am. The view was absolutely beyond belief. The sun was just breaking over the distant hills and the river below me, where I had been just hours earlier, looked like a thread of yarn someone had laid down with little caution. I tell you, the feeling of having been there before was overpowering. That is when I became a believer.
I had been a mountain man.
Maybe even Hatchet Jack.
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I believe in reincarnation. Have for many, many years.
I have no memory of a past life(s) though. To me, if you believe in a soul and afterlife, then reincarnation is a natural progression.
Conversely, I don't believe in much of what is written in the Bible. I consider most of it to be a collection of old myths, fables, misinterpreted events, fabrications and deliberate lies or omissions.
I think there are some very fine, and conversely terrible, examples of how we should treat each other in the Bible.
But I'd be the last person to ban or control it.
Voltaire never wrote, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
What he did write was, "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so."
That's pretty much how I feel about the Bible, and organized religion in general.
I believe in an Afterlife. I believe in a higher being(s). I also believe that Reincarnation is the classroom for the soul, to teach it new lessons with each incarnation.
Reincarnation is an ancient concept.
Whatever any of us believe, we won't know for certain until we cross over to the Other Side -- and oh, what surprises will await us there!
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Well, I do believe in the Bible and an afterlife too, whether it be spiritually or in a more solid form. As far as reincarnation goes, I want to come back as somebody's prize bull and be in a pasture on a hill, overlooking another pasture of warm, willing cows below. If I'm a PRIZE bull, I'll be WAY too valuable in other ways to be turned into ribeyes.
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I wonder why CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE, shows up on top of the screen with this thread? I'm scared to click on it.
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Nope . . . so I gotta try to get it right in THIS life!
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I don't know. However If I do, I guess I'll just have to take whatever I get.
I did like the movie (and book) "Fluke."
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I believe....
Here I am, again....proof positive of life after banishment...
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I did believe in reincarnation in my last life, but now I don't.
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For the record, no.
It is fun to think about the opportunities.
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No, I most certainly do not. (Ref. Phillips above)
However, it's fun to get into arguments with people about it, though.
I remember a comedian doing a sketch with one of those near-de-well, enviro-whacked-out, hemp-smoking, tie-dyed wearing sandal modern democrat types...
Anyway,IIRC, it went something like this...the comedian, who was the "straight guy" in the sketch, believed in reincarnation, whereas the weirdo didn't, but wanted to be buried in a park so he could decompose and become a part of beautiful tree!
Well, the comedian believed he'd be reincarnated as an axe or chainsaw and cut down the tree!
The worst thing I could think of to be reincarnated as would be...
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A crawdad in Louisiana.
"Because Cajuns eat any...thing!" -Justin Wilson
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