"Regular people" -- Do you believe in reincarnation/past lives?

Question

I received a free "karmic" reading as a fun gift. When I got it, it was EERILY on the mark! I know how words are used in horoscopes in a very generic way so they could apply to anyone. Well, these were specific and very accurate!!

I'm not into that type of stuff but it got me thinking! Do you think this stuff could be, GULP, real????

Answer 1

personally - no!

Answer 2

There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

Answer 3

Yes ma'am it is quite real. It's also logical if you stop and think about it outside of the confined mind of "linear time" and narrow thinking about "sin" vs. "cause and effect".

There are MANY people who have, as very young children, recalled accurate to the atom, past lives. There's an account of a young boy who claimed he was a pilot who'd crashed during a mission and could identify the plane he flew, and knew how to do a walk around on such a plane without any prior knowledge of anything about aircraft and being a pilot. LOTS of very convincing stories like this if you do the research. Of course you have to weed through false claims and these can be EASILY disproven. Usually a person remembers in the earliest years of their life before the mind begins picking up too much of the dross of THIS life, (i.e. before 4 years of age generally).

Happy hunting!

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Answer 4

Penn Jillette and James Randi, each magicians and old carnival people, tell stories of the ways people can give "cold readings."

This is a trick in which a psychic or someone similar gets information from you without your knowledge. Some of it is verbal, some of it is nonverbal. Some "readers" don't even know they're doing it.

But if someone is earning money for doing "karmic readings," that's going to rip her "karma" to shreds.

Answer 5

I feel that you are a very sensitive person; not appreciated and have been wronged recently. You do care for a special person but can not compromise your principles. Sometimes you love too much, have achieved a goal recently few people could have been possible....I have just made up this bullsh*t, and most people love compliments to the point of suicide.

Good luck with your fortune tellers.

Answer 6

i have no doubts about karma existing
i am still on the fence with reincarnation ... but it is seeming highly probably that some may choose to return to a physical life

Answer 7

Yes, I do believe in karma, reincarnation, and that I have lived many lives in the past.

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Answer 8

No. think about it. there are more people living today than at any time in history. but reincarnation is real? Is there a soul factory somewhere?

Answer 9

What is “a living soul”? Genesis 2:7 Dust and breath, that is what we are dust and breath. Please turn to Genesis 3:19 Dust you are and to dust you return. Let’s look at a controversial text. The book of Ecclesiastes chapter twelve and verse seven, (read it) dust to the ground, spirit to God who gave it. So one might ask what is the spirit if not what we commonly call a ghost? First we’ll turn to James it’s a little book right after Hebrews. We’ll read in chapter two verse twenty-six. This chapter is mostly talking about faith without deeds being dead, but here in verse twenty-six it states, “The body without the ‘spirit’ is dead.” Not much, we didn’t already know, but what is this spirit? The book of Job sheds some light on the fact in chapter 27 verse three; Job is talking to his friends about God. He states that as long as he has life in him the breath of God in his nostrils he will not…deny his integrity. It goes back to dust and breath again. So what does happen to a person when they die? Ezekiel 18:20 states that the soul that sins, it shall die. In first Timothy chapter six verses 15 and 16 Paul is talking to Timothy and says (read) God is the only one who is immortal. Let’s see if we can find out where the dead are. What is it like for those that have died? Does the Bible give us any indication? Ps 115:17 “The dead praise not the Lord neither any that go down into silence.” And again in Ecc 9:5, 6 & 10 “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.” “Whatsoever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” God says the dead know not anything. In the gospels, John chapter 11, when it talks about Lazarus death, in verse eleven Jesus calls death sleep. How many of you, when you get a good nights sleep realize anything that goes on around you between the time you fall asleep and when you wake up? That is what it is like to be dead. Look up at the light. shut those off for one moment? Okay where did the light go? Where did it go? It doesn’t go anywhere. It takes two things to create light, the bulb and electricity. Without both things, there is no light. You can turn them back on now. When a person ceases to breathe the breath goes out of the body and the body; it goes where we bury it to await the resurrection.
Are we really sure that our loved ones are not in heaven now? Let’s close with reading a couple more texts. The first text is found in Acts 2 (read); Peter is talking to the crowd about Jesus resurrection. The part of the dialogue I want us to concentrate on begins in verse twenty-two and ends in the first part of verse 34. David, the King David, is dead and buried and has not ascended to heaven. When will we expect to see our loved ones again? First Thessalonians chapter four verses 15 though 18 answers this question for us. One minute a person is alive and what will seem to them as the next minute God will call them from their graves. And finally, Revelation chapter twenty one verses one through five, we go to heaven together with our loved ones when Christ comes again and there will be no more death or crying. Won’t that be a glorious day? I can hardly wait. Won’t you wait with me today?

Answer 10

That's only for Cylons on BSG, when they die, being machines, they download into new bodies. Are you a Cylon agent?