First, you may have learned from science courses that energy can't be created or be destroyed, it can only be transferred from one place to another. Second, as most of us know, when one is asleep, time seems to pass very quickly. Once you fall asleep the next second when you wake up, many hours have passed. In extreme cases, when one is in a coma, a person may experience a lifetime in a matter of hours from the time the person become unconscious to when he/she awakes decades later. In theory, I think in religious term "a soul" or "conscious" is pure energy. It cannot be created or destroyed, but transferred from one place to another. When we die, the energy migrates from our body to another place until it reaches a lifeform where we establish conscious again. This migration may take years, decades, or even millions of years, but to the eye of the beholder, it's a matter of seconds.....feel free to comment.
2006-12-13 09:54:43 · 30 answers · asked by i1bagel 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Third, do you play video games? have you played Pac-Man? all you can do is to move up down left right and eat? how about Final Fantasy? how many more things can you do? What is the difference between a person playing Pac-Man and a person playing Final Fantasy. There can be no difference. Your abilities are limited to who you are. A fish cannot fly and a bird cannot swim.
2006-12-13 13:15:56 · update #1
Rebirth is the Way as expressed in Buddhist tradition. I'm Buddhist so my answer is yes. You've expressed my "belief" very well, very eloquently...nice work.....in Buddhism the soul never dies but evolves over time to a higher plane of existence..our tradition is that when a person's body dies, the soul is still attached for some time afterwards by a thin cord of energy. During this waiting time, traditionally 7 days, prayers are offered to awaiting attendants on the next plane of existence to tend to the soul and assist in the transition for rebirth, this is for the souls protection as well as guidance.....after rebirth the cycle begins anew until the soul has sufficiently evolved to remain in the next plane and continue on to the next and next and so forth...traditionally there are seven planes of existence....so as you have so eloquently put it...time could be construed as irrelevent to the soul....well put......Are you Buddhist...??
2006-12-13 10:19:10 · answer #1 · answered by Gaz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That was great! Wow. I believe in reincarnation, but I have never heard it explained so logistically. Makes perfect sense how it all comes about. I just don't agree we die. By migrate, I am assuming you mean, re-born or new birth into another physical lifeform. I also believe that it is the beholder who chooses the parents, the circumstances, the timeframe of the migration and then makes a deal to forget all the knowledge of this so it may come back into this realm and RE-MEMBER in the physical relative conscious state. It's subjective.
2006-12-13 10:09:00 · answer #2 · answered by BabyGirl~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you want to believe in reincarnation. I argue with my father about this frequently. We agree that people who believe in God are deluded but he gets snagged with this reincarnation thing. He's getting up in the years and he's afraid. He tries that argument about energy not being created or destroyed and how everything moves in a cycle. But that is more likely to mean that the matter and energy you are composed of will disperse throughout. Not that some sort of soul or consciousness will live on. Every time we get to this point and he says, maybe you're right. But then he says wait until you take such and such semesters of physics or mathematics. He doesn't even want to argue it. And I believe it's because somewhere in his head he has a grasp of how goofy his argument sounds. Sometimes I'll get him past this with some more argument, then he'll say that out of the 3 lunacy something or others: Evolution, man in the clouds, and reincarnation; Reincarnation is the least worse of the three. He can't even give me a reason for his disdain of evolution.
To stop this rambling, I know what you mean. I just don't think it's so. Any theory for an afterlife, comes out of desire for an afterlife. Sure, I can't disprove reincarnation. But, if you look at the subject and try to keep your desires out of its consideration, then things like supreme beings and cycling souls just don't seem probable.
2006-12-13 09:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sounds pretty much the way I think of it. You were actually able to put it into words very eloquently. Congrats. lol. I haven't been able to explain how I think of reincarnation. I don't really think of it as a sort of "spiritual" thing, like a soul moving from one body to another, but more of a passing of consciousness. It seems to make much more sense to me than some land in the sky or something.
--I don't quite get the pac-man final fantasy thing, though.
2006-12-13 09:59:23 · answer #4 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't think I believe in this science explanation you have; I am a Christian and I believe in God. But I think reincarnation could be possible; I go back and forth. Sometimes I think that maybe we keep being born again and again until we learn all the lessons we need to know and finally go to Heaven.
I got this idea from reading about Druidism and the Celts, but I don't believe in their religion.
2006-12-13 09:58:31 · answer #5 · answered by Pooky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe in reincarnation. True that energy can not be created or destroyed but it can and does change properties. Just because someones energy might be contained in a soul and they die, doesn't mean that energy stays in the form of a living soul. It could change or be absorbed into almost any state.
2006-12-13 10:04:01 · answer #6 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that this is an excellent piece of information! I like to try and explain things in religion with science, but I haven't touched reincarnation yet. This is sooo cool! You are a genius!
-Wiccan Teen )O(
2006-12-13 10:04:56 · answer #7 · answered by Seeker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I tend to agree with your theory on the human spirit being energy. I've not made up my mind as to what happens to the energy after we die, but I agree it must go somewhere. I don't believe in heaven or hell, and what I hope happens after death is reincarnation.
2006-12-13 09:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by Smitten_Kitten 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible says we die once and then face the judgement. This rules out the possibility of reincarnation. See Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
2006-12-13 09:58:36 · answer #9 · answered by handsomeworshipper 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Father K is right. Man is appointed once to die, after death comes judgement"
In terms of reincarnation many religions believe we pay for our past sins, for example if we make fun of the blind we may return a blind person.
In the christian faith Jesus dies for all of our sins. So we don't pay or come back to pay for them.
I also believe our soul is pure energy and every one lives eternally. But the difference is like Real Estate, location, location , location.
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2006-12-13 10:04:54 · answer #10 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋