Contemplate reincarnation for a moment, please?

Question

Whether or not you believe in reincarnation, contemplate the idea for a moment, please. If you have had a previous life, who or what do you think that life was? For a future life, what would you like to experience?

Answer 1

Ohhhmmmm.... OOOhhhmmm.... oooohhhmmmm (that's me contemplating)

Okay... I contemplated and decided I haven't had a previous life. For a future life... I would like to experience... dare I say it... I'll whisper it....

h.... e.... a.... v.... e.... n

Have a blessed day!

Answer 2

Past - I was a probably a holy man, a minister of some sort. I'm thinking 17th century Germany. I lost my faith early, but I didn't have any other skills, so I just went with the program. I needed the dough. Because I felt guilty deceiving my flock for so long, my penance was to be reincarnated as an atheist in the most Christian of nations to spread the Good Word - of atheism.

Future - Because I show so many people the light and the truth of atheism, I am rewarded. I come back as a woman that looks like Angelina Jolie, but still with the soul of a heterosexual man, and I get to seduce women who look like Beyonce & Adriana Lima. And when I'm bored, I just get naked and look at myself in the mirror or take a shower. In front of a mirror.

Answer 3

While I give reincarnation a low order of probability, I have often observed that those who claim to have had a previous life were very interesting people before they died back then. Many of them were Kings and Queens and Warrriors and the like. I wonder if such people as bakers and streetsweepers and haulers of night earth just aren't reincarnated. I've personally met two people who claim to have been Joan of Arc, but no one acknowledges being the poor slob who had to gather the kindling.

Answer 4

I believe in reincarnation. Previous life may not be as good as this one because it is supposed to be spiritual evolution and the concept of reincarnation provides that purpose. So whatever my next life would turn out it is expected to be better for the next spiritual advancement. The future life is not of my choice but of my karma. If I want to be the president of one country that would not happen if my karma leads me to take a pauper's life.

Answer 5

It's very late Jack, but I just wanted to say that I have been 'resurrected' too many time to think about. I have re-experienced my last life's end, i.e. the death in total detail. I was a military pilot, and have been again since.

No more military stuff for me, a very peaceable fellow for all 'futures'. What I cherish most is the thought of living in a world without war, or suffering of any kind, no starvation, in fact no 'need' at all.

Sounds too good to be true ?

Not if we can finally learn to share with each other and eliminate the need for greed.

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Answer 6

Well, i don't really believe in reincarnation...

But when i was really little, I kept having a recurring nightmare... it was about brick ovens.

I don't want to say anymore, because it was really traumatic and every time i had this nightmare, I woke up screaming my head off.

The nightmares stopped when i was about 5 yrs old.

When i was older, I saw a documentary about something called "the holocaust" they showed pictures of brick ovens with metal latches... it looked exactly like what i had seen in my nightmares when i was little. I felt this huge terror and panic overwhelm me when i saw it and turned the tv off.

I'm not sure what it meant... maybe i just ... i don't know...
but I love the Jews...

A few yrs ago i became really interested in the "roots of my faith." so when i found out about Messianic Church, I became a Messianic, because of it's "Jewishness" and because I still love my Jesus very much.

When I die, i want to go back to God, but if i came back to earth (hypothetically speaking) I would want to somehow be able to serve God more and better than what I've done in this life.

Answer 7

Past lives? child of wealth parents circa 1770s', early quaker settler circa 1680, flapper, very early life, child captive of raiders, evil bishop circa 1400's.

Future lives, part of a crew living on a station in the moon. Also, city dweller in the future (where I'll meet my current husband). Sorry to say, the cities are pretty nasty.

Honestly, I'm working real hard to make sure I don't have to come back many more times. This boogie is a mess.

Answer 8

I'm not sure, but I think we have all lived the sum of all lives. And once we die, we will live on in the lives that continue, as a part of all that exists...

"At first, we might think of reincarnation as a soul entering a body. The body is seen as impermanent and the soul as permanent, and when we get rid of one body, we re-enter another...In popular Buddhism, reincarnation is accepted literally, without much examination, but as we continue to study and practice, the idea of an immortal soul gives way to another idea that is closer to reality. If we study the teachings of the Buddha and we observe our own mind, we will find there is nothing permanent within the constituents of what we call 'self'...Not only is our body impermanent, but our so-called soul is also impermanent. It, too, is comprised only of elements like feelings, perceptions, mental states and consciousness. When the idea of an IMMORTAL soul gets replaced, our understanding of reincarnation gets closer to the truth... If we observe the things around us we find that nothing comes from nothing. Before its so-called birth, this flower already existed in other forms-clouds, sunshine, seeds, soil and many other elements...It has already been here in other forms, and now it has made an effort to remanifest." -Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha Living Christ

Peace to you.

Answer 9

I don't believe in reincarnation.

but I'd have to say that if I were reincarnated, I would have been someone who had a really rough life. either an alcoholic or an addicted gambler. i'm pretty good at moderation.

in my next life, i'd like to be a princess.

p.s. i just got home from the bar, sorry for any typos if they exists.
p.s.s. i drank in moderation

Answer 10

I don't believe in reincarnation, but I like good questions. ; )

In my previous life, I was a beautiful, educated and proper noblewoman of the 18th Century English aristocracy.

In the future, I'd like to come back as a wild, brightly colored scarlet macaw, so I could fly and be free and not care in the slightest what humans think about one another.

Answer 11

I could believe in reincarnation from the aspect of our molecules retaining memory after our death.

In my next life I would like to be the pope so I can at least give a decent apology to all those the vatican has wronged over the centuries.