Reincarnation - a realistic belief?

[Lysimachus]

Well i've kind of gathered that pretty much every religion is BS, unless you think a human/groups of humans giving their oh so mighty view on things and branding it as a religion to justify it makes it any more truer, but since the law of science is "matter is never destroyed" doesn't that mean that even after dying we continue to live? I'm not sure what part of us actually is "us", but is it possible that eventually in an unspecified period of time after dying that we could assume a conscious state once more? Our mind would be wiped clean, our knowledge of our past life would be eradicated but we would still be allowed to exist once more.

Thoughts?

[Veni]

No, reincarnation is just another tool for people to afraid to face the reality of death.

[Helm]

I think reincarnation is possible but not with the Buddhist karma system set up.

No, reincarnation is just another tool for people to afraid to face the reality of death.

Not everyone seems to like the icy cold caress of the infinite eternal void of nothing for some reason.

[Caliph]

Reincarnation cannot be verifiebly proven. The only element that gives it any credit are the people who claim they've lived past lives. It is more likely however that these same people simply let their imagination run riot.

[Lord of Lost Socks]

Not everyone seems to like the icy cold caress of the infinite eternal void of nothing for some reason.

It won't matter because you can't dislike it once you're dead, and it isn't icy cold. It just isn't anything.

[Helm]

It won't matter because you can't dislike it once you're dead, and it isn't icy cold. It just isn't anything.

Icy cold anticipation I mean.

[Oddsworm]

Icy cold anticipation I mean.

some people like to face reality.

[Arch-hereticK]

It won't matter because you can't dislike it once you're dead, and it isn't icy cold. It just isn't anything.

Unless you're a cylon.

[Adrian]

No, reincarnation is just another tool for people to afraid to face the reality of death.

Too true the weak will always look for comfort and a reason to exist.

[Moorish guy]

Too true the weak will always look for comfort and a reason to exist.

Strange how you think that the possibilty of a heaven and a hell is completely impossible, but at the same time completey sure that your own verison of the afterlife is troo.

[Lupu]

Tell me the spaghetti monster does not exist!

[Cussa]

Tell me the spaghetti monster does not exist!

The spaghetti monster does not exist!

- Cussa

[Trax]

Look up the Drake equation.

Look up Fermi paradox

[Arch-hereticK]

Look up Fermi paradox

That's the point of the Drake equation isn't it?
Even though he himself said: "Frank Drake himself has commented that the Drake equation is unlikely to settle the Fermi paradox; instead it is just a way of organizing our ignorance on the subject."

I still think it's pretty good, for what it is.

[Arch-hereticK]

On a cosmic scale even random events appear magnificently ordered, the laws of existence restrict the "random" possibilities. Random is not in a cosmologist's vocabulary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34-1W...eature=related

[Helm]

The thing to bear in mind about the whole eternal void of nothingness set-up is that it really is just another religious belief seeing as there's no evidence for it.

[Arch-hereticK]

The thing to bear in mind about the whole eternal void of nothingness set-up is that it really is just another religious belief seeing as there's no evidence for it.

It's an equal possibility is what I'm saying.

[Elfdude]

The thing to bear in mind about the whole eternal void of nothingness set-up is that it really is just another religious belief seeing as there's no evidence for it.

The thing to bear in mind is that despite how many times you say it, and how many times people would rather just allow you to believe it, it isn't true.

Plainly: you. are. wrong.

Please don't claim this again. If you want some references I can provide you with some.

[Lysimachus]

The thing to bear in mind about the whole eternal void of nothingness set-up is that it really is just another religious belief seeing as there's no evidence for it.

[MaryPoppinCaps]

Who is to say what's surely possible and impossible?