I thinks it's highly unlikely rebirth happens and they're quite illogically if we're thinking of the Buddhist/Hindu version of it. It would basically be the same as deceasing to exist after death that many none-religious people believes in.
Here's examples on logical fallacies with rebirth and karma.
1. You can't remember your previously memories or lives, so how are you supposed to learn the lesson of what's right or wrong if you can't remember? It's like expecting someone to learn to read if they're unable to storage their memories. The day after they would still be as illiterate as the day before.
2. If you're supposed to be taught what's wrong from the "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" method you're dependent on someone else never breaking the evil circle. If you're a murderer and the karma-system wants to punish you in your next life for it making you a murder victim the next life, then someone else have to murder you. If there's not any artificial intelligent "robots" disguised as people doing it, but actually real human beings, then they would never get rid of the karma and the circle would be continuous assuming murder would still be considered wrong. It would also be intervening with free will of choose.
3. The identity paradox is the major problem with explaining rebirth. If you lose all your previously memories, personality traits, everything from your former lives and even gets born as something completely different as previously like gender and specie, would it still be you and the same person? If no, wouldn't it be considered deceasing to exist after death and no rebirth? If yes, what defines you?
Yes, some Buddhists believes a snake, gorilla, ant, fish and a human being can be the same person. Sure they've something in common like eating and shitting, but so do all other human beings have. It has to be something else - something more you and these previously lives have in common to be capable to "define you". What's the rational answer defending the argument that my neighbor's former cat is now my newborn nephew for instance? It's just a fictional example, but still, how can you explain that? What's the identity?
4. What's the purpose of rebirth and existing in the first place? Yes, you can ask this to all religions. How you can ask a Christian what's the point of existing on earth firstly before going to Heaven or be sent to Hell by an all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful god, or how you can ask an none-believer what's the point of something being created of "nothing", you can also ask a Buddhist or Hindu what's the point of getting born in the first place if you're going to decease to exist anyway if you manage to break the rebirth cycle.
All these suffering on earth could be avoided if you didn't exist in the first place, so being born in the first place, reborn multiple times to do the "right thing" to just break the cycle and decease to exist as a reward is a concept that's difficult to grasp. Yes, you do get more chances than in Christianity where you either goes to Heaven or Hell, but you can't remember all the chances you got. You didn't need to be born in the first place either. If none were born, none would suffer and this game wouldn't exist.
Summary:
1. Memory loss
2. Breaking the circle
3. The identity paradox
4. The purpose of life as the game
In addition there's no science backing up this belief.
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Here is some of what I wrote about this:
Seemingly real spirit manifestations bolster the Abrahamic concept of an afterlife, not reincarnation. Reincarnation involves spirits, after exiting the deceased, circuitously inhabiting various bodies, irrespective of their being male, female, or animal. This system demotes bodies into mere temporary vehicles, instead of integral components complimenting the complete individual. After researching the clothing style of the first spirit who appeared to me, I discovered that this dress was only concurrent with ancient time periods, such as the Grecian Empire's. This demonstrated that spirit's affixation to an ancient period and the importance of her former body, instead of body hopping throughout history as reincarnation proponents assert.
Reincarnation also suffers from a lack of credibility; hypnotized Americans constantly claim past lives of royalty and fame, instead of boring peasantry, the lives of the vast majority throughout history. Also, there is the book: Reincarnation Refuted: Evidence, Logic, and Common Sense by Stephen Blake. This info comes from pages 64-65 from Chapter VIII (8) on my website: www.thezap.net
No, there is no rebirth or reincarnation. God gives you one life and one life to live, after you die and i mean officially die, their is no going back or repeats. Otherwise if rebirths/reincarnation did happen then we would have absolute strangers contacting everyone every day explaining that it's their mom, dad, brother, aunt, cousin, wife, husband etc.. that passed away but are back and they still remember everything. Once you die, you go to stand before God cause to be abscent from the body is to be present with God. You're soul is eternal so it's either eternity with God... or eternity without God. That's it, nothing else. No reincarnation, no purgatory, no coming back again.
Re-birth is when you get baptised. You're talking about re-incarnation. I've seen no evidence of it, personally.
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No. Even if it were true, it wouldn’t be you. Suppose that it did happen and some thing, people call it a soul, exit your body and goes into another one. It’s has no memories or personality from before. No knowledge of loved one, nothing. The question becomes what constitutes you as you? If you say your soul, what really distinguishes it from other souls? And if you said your soul, without personality, memory, etc. then wouldn’t you be assigning significance to something that is pretty arbitrary? I can say I am the reincarnated trilobite millions of years ago since the carbon in my body is from that trilobite, or eating a cow is technically still veganism since the cow eats the grass. The thing is that these are all examples of arbitrarily adding meaning. What you should do instead is that if there was something that is true, what is it’s logical implications?
I think so because sometimes when sitting doing various things suddenly flash will play in my mine of something totally different and something I have never seen. No its not a daydream since I'm fully awake.
Not in the sense you mean it... I call myself a born-again Christian but it has nothing to do with dying and then coming back as a different person, rather it is all to do with believing I'm recreated as a being capable of knowing, loving, and serving God as I was prior to, wholly unable.
I don't really believe in reincarnation. It would be cool, but I honestly doubt it. If I could, I would, but I dunno.
No. A ressurection is what happens. God will unite your spirit back to your flesh to be judged then it's either to inherit the new earth or go to hell.
I am just gonna be honest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAcp3BFBYw4
why the fuck are you guys and girls so fucking stupid
instead of actually picking up these books and reading them to see if they are telling the truth
you shove a finger up your ass and stay stupid
it is really this simple
PICK UP THOSE BOOKS
you know which ones
then maybe you would not be asking such stupid questions like this lol
fucking retards
Glory to my Christ above the domeIf it was good enough for General Patton, it's good enough for me:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton#ImageLike the Hindu religion? It's a possibility but no. I think it would be nice though. I'd rather be reincarnated than be dead in Heaven (a perfect place).
I like to dream it exists but deep down I know there is no after life or rebirth
Yup, but not for everyone. I think both happens, there is a beyond / after life your contiousness goes to. And when your ready/willing you can choose to be born again in a physical body.
no i don't. also from what you said, the story with jum ticker and ian stevenson doesn't make sense without you saying what those are about... or do you expect everybody to google that up?
I believe in reincarnation, yes.
There is rebirth but it not that common. I saw in long island medium
Not in the literal sense. I mean either you come back as mulch or your constituent chemicals are released into the atmosphere.
I want to believe in it quite badly, but it just seems so impossible and it would make no sense...
No , where is the thinking behind this. In my reading of the Bible this is not mentioned.
Nope
Do you mean rebirth or reincarnation?
Yes.
Probably yeah
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