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Past lives

  • 03-07-2020 12:04AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭


    Hard to know where to post this as I want serious answers but can’t find anywhere where those annoying mods won’t moan about my post...
    Recently I’ve heard more and more people speaking about “past lives” or I was such and such in my past life etc. Are people just becoming more mental or am I missing something?
    Who believes in past lives and why do they know all about them and I know nothing...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    There's only one way to find out.

    It involves dying.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,900 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    It's a central to tenet to about one sixth of the world's population isn't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Tuco88


    What I would do to go back to the world of the late 90s.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I may sound a bit mad here, but I've met a couple of people who I reckon I knew in a past life..No particular reason.. didn't get to know them well..was just weird though..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    I may sound a bit mad here, but I've met a couple of people who I reckon I knew in a past life..No particular reason.. didn't get to know them well..was just weird though..

    Funny you say that. I’ve had people I hardly know who I feel I really care about. I remember feeling so much love and so many feelings for a woman in the past (not sexual) I couldn’t understand it at the time


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  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm the reincarnation of Shirley MacLaine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    How does re-incarnation explain exponential population growth? Can people come back multiple times?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    Ipso wrote: »
    How does re-incarnation explain exponential population growth? Can people come back multiple times?

    Well if you believe in reincarnation then people come back multiple times yes... you just keep having life after life until you learn all your lessons... that’s what they say


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Well if you believe in reincarnation then people come back multiple times yes... you just keep having life after life until you learn all your lessons... that’s what they say

    But you can only come back as one person at a time, so the population should remain static.

    It's more likely we're here once, so enjoy it and don't look for reasoning or meaning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    Think about it logically, does reincarnation exist? Why would it? How could it?

    We evolved from apes, or with apes.. Do they reincarnate? If so, then do all animals? Is homo erectus still being reincarnated? Since when? Homo habilis? Is he still popping up every so often? How is population growth explained? Where were we before? Where do we go after? Into eternal nothingness..

    As nice as it is to think that grandma’s coming back.. she’s not.

    So to answer the question, no, i do not believe we live any life other than this.

    YMMV..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Think about it logically, does reincarnation exist? Why would it? How could it?

    We evolved from apes, or with apes.. Do they reincarnate? If so, then do all animals? Is homo erectus still being reincarnated? Since when? Homo habilis? Is he still popping up every so often? How is population growth explained? Where were we before? Where do we go after? Into eternal nothingness..

    As nice as it is to think that grandma’s coming back.. she’s not.

    So to answer the question, no, i do not believe we live any life other than this.

    YMMV..

    I didn’t believe in reincarnation when I was you either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    Think about it logically, does reincarnation exist? Why would it? How could it?

    We evolved from apes, or with apes.. Do they reincarnate? If so, then do all animals? Is homo erectus still being reincarnated? Since when? Homo habilis? Is he still popping up every so often? How is population growth explained? Where were we before? Where do we go after? Into eternal nothingness..

    As nice as it is to think that grandma’s coming back.. she’s not.

    So to answer the question, no, i do not believe we live any life other than this.

    YMMV..

    I’m really open minded about this so could be either way and wouldn’t surprise me but none of the points you make make reincarnation impossible. Of course all animals could reincarnate. The body is just a vessel in the case of reincarnation. You ask why would reincarnation exist. But why would it all be so random that we are here once and then die. How did we even come to exist? Population growth is explained by people having more kids (there would now be more opportunities for dead people to reincarnate as more people having kids)... before we were spirit or on earth as somebody else...
    I Don’t believe myself but I don’t not believe either. I guess we’ll never know


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    joeguevara wrote: »
    I didn’t believe in reincarnation when I was you either.

    You really don’t grasp it lol. You were never him. You were always your spirit


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    But you can only come back as one person at a time, so the population should remain static.

    It's more likely we're here once, so enjoy it and don't look for reasoning or meaning.

    But not everybody comes back straight away... can stay in spirit world for years before coming back


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Going on up to the spirit in the sky
    That's where I'm going to go when I die ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,444 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    But you can only come back as one person at a time, so the population should remain static.

    /quote]

    Whether we do or don't reincarnate is irrelevant to me. Even if we do, we can only live one life at a time so what went before or comes after isn't pertinent.

    The feelings of recognition and even deep, pure love for people we barely know - yeah, I've experienced that too. The latter only once. I don't know if any explanation is required. Maybe we do know them - in the here and now. We connect immediately sometimes. And maybe we feel that love because we sumply do love them. Don't over analyse things like that - just experience them. It's all part of being human.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    You really don’t grasp it lol. You were never him. You were always your spirit

    I thought that when I was you too.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I might sound a bit odd here again, but a few years ago my parents dog died..a little Pomeranian..
    ~6 months later a pup the absolute head off her popped up on Facebook for sale a half hour away..as soon as he saw me he bounced over and climbed up on to my shoulder.. seemed to know the aul pairs' house too.. he's now my nieces' dog.. exact same temperament..(they're generally narky out.. this one isn't..)

    I'm completely convinced it's the reincarnation of the same dog..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    I’m really open minded about this so could be either way and wouldn’t surprise me but none of the points you make make reincarnation impossible. Of course all animals could reincarnate. The body is just a vessel in the case of reincarnation. You ask why would reincarnation exist. But why would it all be so random that we are here once and then die. How did we even come to exist? Population growth is explained by people having more kids (there would now be more opportunities for dead people to reincarnate as more people having kids)... before we were spirit or on earth as somebody else...
    I Don’t believe myself but I don’t not believe either. I guess we’ll never know

    We’ll never know. But based on logic, reason and evidence or lack thereof, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that it even might exist other than the fact that some people would like it to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    We’ll never know. But based on logic, reason and evidence or lack thereof, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that it even might exist other than the fact that some people would like it to.

    But a lot of people claim to have been told by spirits if you count that as evidence. Like pretty much all mediums believe in it...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    I actually spent 5k on a reincarnation seminar. I thought to myself what the hell, you only live once.

    The leader raised my hopes when she said that in my previous life it is clear I was laid every night and pulled off regularly. Then the b1tch told me i was a table cloth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    I might sound a bit odd here again, but a few years ago my parents dog died..a little Pomeranian..
    ~6 months later a pup the absolute head off her popped up on Facebook for sale a half hour away..as soon as he saw me he bounced over and climbed up on to my shoulder.. seemed to know the aul pairs' house too.. he's now my nieces' dog.. exact same temperament..(they're generally narky out.. this one isn't..)

    I'm completely convinced it's the reincarnation of the same dog..


    Well I wouldn’t be too convinced there now. The dog wouldn’t remember the house. do you remember your past houses haha


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Well I wouldn’t be too convinced there now. The dog wouldn’t remember the house. do you remember your past houses haha

    Honest to god.. it's uncanny.. you actually won't convince me it's not a reincarnation of the same dog..
    The dog remembered the house..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    joeguevara wrote: »
    I actually spent 5k on a reincarnation seminar. I thought to myself what the hell, you only live once.

    The leader raised my hopes when she said that in my previous life it is clear I was laid every night and pulled off regularly. Then the b1tch told me i was a table cloth.

    I think you were a comedian in your past life


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    I think you were a comedian in your past life

    I remember you saying that to me in the French Revolution. Still cracks me up.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You two were sickening during the French Revolution..
    FFS..get a chambre..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    But a lot of people claim to have been told by spirits if you count that as evidence. Like pretty much all mediums believe in it...

    “If you count that as evidence”

    No, i don’t.

    Come on, think about it logically. Look for the reason, look for the proof. There is nothing to even suggest that this might be the case!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,241 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    You two were sickening during the French Revolution..
    FFS..get a chambre..

    At least we didn’t tell people to eat cake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭sallyanne12


    “If you count that as evidence”

    No, i don’t.

    Come on, think about it logically. Look for the reason, look for the proof. There is nothing to even suggest that this might be the case!

    But we are using our human brains here. This is beyond the physical so simply can’t be proven


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    But not everybody comes back straight away... can stay in spirit world for years before coming back

    Says who??


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