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Dr. Ian Stevenson, at the Univ. of Virginia, has done much research into reincarnation. He finds that children from 3 to 5 years old have the strongest memories (if they have any) of experiences from previous lives. This is also the ages that people have more ESP ability, which decreases as we approach adolescence and adulthood. Some cases involve details remembered from a past life, where no present life experience could reveal it, that can be independently verified as having actually happened long ago.
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i do not believe in reincarnation... i never buy a declining stock... I always buy a stock on the incline. A good example is jdsu been declining for 4 years
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quote:Originally posted by blueranger: i do not believe in reincarnation... i never buy a declining stock... I always buy a stock on the incline. A good example is jdsu been declining for 4 years
Yep, and all the declining stocks just keep going on down to zero, don't they.
Watch JDSU from this point on.
Art's law of anti-gravity: What goes down usually goes back up.
-------------------- The light of truth is blinding to most.
More comforting to look only at the shadows of falseness.
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i accidentally posted my thoughts on reincarnation in the "nirvana" thread. oops. i will paste them here:
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the buddhists have a proof for everything. no such thing as blind faith in buddhism. (also no such thing as god, btw.)
i sometimes sit in on classes with the galups (galupas?) - it's the "highest school of buddhism" (kind of arrogant, huh..).. this is the school of the dhali llama. anyway, the philosophy aspect to all of this (emptiness, for ex, which we could discuss perhps.) appeals to me, so i.. sit in.
their proof for reincarnation however, has not held up for me as a proof. they say, essentially, that there is no way to find the exact point where a thing begins. if you look at a set of diagrams depicting a seed which is planted and grows into a tree, you cannot find one single place where it stops being a seed and is now a tree. those images are nice (like there is no precise edge to a thing.. your body, for example...)
but when they speak of a person's life.. they say that every moment of consciousness, every "thought" that you have springs out of another one which occurred right before it. and leads into the next one which comes after. it's a continuum. therefore... there can be no first one.
i raise my hand.
"here i have a book" i say. "lets say it represents my life, and here i am in the middle, and every page represents a moment of consciousness. it sure SEEMS, from this perspective inside the book, as if there are endless pages in either direction, but in fact, there is a very first one, and a very last one."
the teacher half-masks his irritation with a "wisdom-smile" and suggests i need to meditate on it.
others throw out that "it came from something else." you know, the paper which makes up the first page, from a tree, yadda yadda.
which i find disappointing .. point-missing...
i think their proof is not a proof. and that what they have is a collection of nice images to illustrate what they have decided to believe.
but i do appreciate their intention of having all their beliefs be provable things.
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