Say instead of spirit you say that it is your matter(organic tissue) is reused to form more life and travels through many beings. For example I know my muscles are made from protien taken from other organing life, that wich was dead is now used to make life by me.
If I am buried when I die worms will eat me and birds will eat the worms, people may eat the eggs and in that way I feel connection.
Your thoughts?
2007-08-12 05:01:25 · 15 answers · asked by Link , Padawan of Yoda 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-08-12 05:06:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If there is reincarnation, there is more than just this earth for beings to live on. Some of the other places can be called plains of existence. Some people that believe in reincarnation believe that we eventually progress into other being than humans. But that it takes many human lives. So yes, the cycle would go on.
2016-05-20 07:06:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All this is pretty obvious, but it's just recycling of matter, NOT reincarnation, in the spiritual sense. If I can't come back as a human, what good is "metaphorical" reincarnation to me? Unless my conscience somehow survives, I won't care WHAT happens to my body or to the entire earth, for that matter!
I'm an atheist, but still see it as not only possible, but likely, that human thought, i.e. ENERGY, does survive the body's death, in some form or other (ghosts? reincarnated beings?). Though I can't prove it, I like to think about it. It'd be the next best thing to living for thousands of yrs. in my present body!
2007-08-12 05:13:34 · answer #3 · answered by Gwynneth Of Olwen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For a while I thought that's where people may have gotten the idea of reincarnation. If all the matter in your body gets reused, why not the "soul" too. Then I realized that I probably had the order backwards. (i.e. People probably believe in reincarnation before they knew about conservation of matter)
Anyway, you have a good point.
2007-08-12 05:06:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think yours is an astute observation. I have long said that everything in nature shows a cyclic pattern: the tides of the sea, the waxing and waning of the moon, the passing of the seasons, the nights and the days. If there is a master intelligence behind all of creation then that intelligence must be expressed in its purist form in Nature. In other words, if one seeks to know the "will of God," one should observe the natural world and what it shows us. One of the things we may observe is what has been called The Law of Eternal Recurrence.
2007-08-12 05:15:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In as much yes,,,,,incidentaly all the water around today is the same in volume as all the water around say 100 million years ago and even longer,,,so the dinosaurs drank what we drink,one could say a mouth full of water has had the chance of being drunk by an animal 100 million years ago....London tap water was estimated to have been drunk at least 8 times before it gets to London...eeeeeyuk
2007-08-12 05:11:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reuse of materials doesn't constitute reincarnation, in my mind. But that these things are used over and over is a given. Reincarnation has to do with an immortal soul and as an atheist, that is something I do not believe in.
atheist
2007-08-12 05:10:51 · answer #7 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you die and are buried you shall become the decomposing body that will eventually become fertilizer. Then feeding plants, then animals eat the plants, then out the other end and it starts all over.
Isaiah was reborn as John, Jesus' cousin. But to have even the slightest chance there you would have to become very strict to God, for God, with Jesus. And then it would only happen IF God wanted it to.
2007-08-12 05:13:25 · answer #8 · answered by geessewereabove 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i've thought about that too. funny how we all are just a part of the carbon cycle,isn't it? even now we are living on the decomposed part of other plants and animals including humans and someday it will be me. but that really isn't reincarnation for me. we will not return or get back they we are now, because that's not scientifically possible but still, in some way i feel the weird connection too.
2007-08-12 05:14:15 · answer #9 · answered by krishnokoli 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that would be the materialistic form of reincarnation that I refer to when I state my affirmative beliefs in the subject matter.
That is also the gist of the BUddhistic concept of reincarnation.
2007-08-12 05:11:36 · answer #10 · answered by Moodrets 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't feel your cells. Feeling is the transmission of electrical signals to your brain and the reception and processing of those signals. I don't know what senses you would use to "feel" the carbon that contributed to your physical form.
2007-08-12 05:10:54 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋