Does anyone here believe in reincarnation?

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They aired today a documentary program on a Christian TV (Christianity rejects reincarnation) about the Druze’s reincarnation stories in depth, I wish I can find it subtitled in English.

I dunno if this is a kind of a cult/sect group conspiracy, but there’s really something strange happening among the Druze community, story after story of kids and adults remembering details of their “previous life”, they even interviewed a teen who claims he remembered his previous parents, went there to visit them , and proved to them by telling them family secrets - and now he is living between two families.
Another story on a grown up who claims he died in a car accident, he went to his “home in previous life” and met his “family and kids of previouslife” there, and told them where exactly he hides his rifle, and got it “right”.
He also developed a “family” relations with the previous’ life “family”, he even call them daughters and grandaughters... creepy. Those “Family ties” are that strong.

As someone who shares a country with this sect, I did hear countless of such stories from Druzes, it is not very uncommon for a Druze to have a “sibling/family from previous life” ... and they invite them to dinners and to important family events like Christmas (yes they do make a feast lunch on Christmas).

A very weird community, I wonder if their clerics do some kind of guided brainwashing on selected kids just to keep their faith “proven”? but yet Druzism doesn’t preach their faith, a non-Druze can’t join them. I wonder what’s really going on.

Here, this is a similar program, check the interviewing kids part at the beginning, just watch the first 10 mins, check the creepy story at 16:30 as well:



I really wonder what they do to these kids lol.

Last edited by The_Face_of_Boo on 27 Mar 2019, 5:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

We all have incarnations where we don't believe in re-incarnation.

Well I refuse to believe that "good" people go to heaven and "evil" people go to hell. Most of the things that used to be considered moral back in the day are now thought of as pretty monstrous. Like forcing raped women to marry their rapists or burning homosexuals and heretics at the stake. Nobody ever thought that was "evil" back in the day.

I think that wherever it is we go when we die we are all headed to the same place.

...even if it turns out to be nothing but a hole in the ground with the worms eating out our eyeballs.

My aunt is called mom by a girl that she let live with her so the girl could continue to go to school. She eats Thanksgiving dinner with us too.

Don't you mean Proselytize? I find it hard to believe they don't give speeches about their faith to their members.

It was even considered righteous...
And slaughtering every man, woman and child to possess land rights was simply obeying the word of god...
Charming...



No mate...
The crows go for the eyes...
Worms prefer the gut...

Ever heard this catchy song?

No...
I was fortunate not to...
Up to this point...

Oh... sorry.

I like it. It's an old folk song, I first read about it in "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark".

Druzism, like Judasim, is a non-evangelizing religion, only a born Druze can be a Druze.



They actually don’t! Only those who dedicate their life to their faith (and following strict life rules like no smoking, no alcohol, and veiling...etc) do have access to the “sanctuary”, their praying place, and to their “book of wisdom”.
If you have watched the youtube, you may have noticed that most of the interviewed druze people are wearing moderately, ie. women not veiled and men wearing normally, the Druze call those “the ignorant ones”, to desisgnate those who still know very little about their own faith and have no access to their private religious gathering.

And you may have noticed those who are wearing black and white, typically older, men wearing all black with a white hat thing, and women all women with a transparent white hijab, those refer themselves as “The wise ones”, among them are the clerics, and those who can attend the religious masses.

The spirit is the product of one's life experience.

A spirit can influence other developing spirits, by being part of their life experience.

In this manner, a spirit reincarnates. I transfer a bit of my spirit to everyone whose life I influence. My spirit is made up of bits of other spirits who have influenced me during my life.

So our spirits re-incarnate in anyone whom we have had an effect on, and others reincarnate in their impacts upon us.

Our influence; pieces of our spirits, echo down through time in the bodies of those whom we have influenced.

The dignity of man is that our every action influences the entire future of the universe, through the knock-on affects of our actions and influence.

The spirit is the product of one's life experience.

@Max1951: Replace the word 'spirit' with the word 'personality', and I think that you'll have described the entire process spot-on!

Don't forget there's also reintarnation - ie. coming back as a hillbilly.

Spirit = personality = mind = soul = self = integrated set of life experience.

We understand each new experience in terms of old experience. This integrates all life experience into a single spirit. The first thing we ever learned lies at the bottom of understanding each experience in our lives. Because the second thing is understood by analogy to the first thing; the third thing by analogy to the first and second thing and the millionth thing in terms of the 999,999 previous experiences. The more experiences we have had, the better we understand.

It's a process driven by analogy and concept slippage. Concept formation via analogy is the beginning of soul; the point of transformation of the physical into the mental. Thus a physical entities poodle, mastiff, and beagle become the mental entity 'dog', via concept slippage. Concept slippage is determined by differences in patterns of body sensor activation input from 2 different experiences. There is no physical 'dog' out there. What we have is the mental concept of dog, built on analogies among physical experiences of various flash and blood animals. To understand 'dog' by relating the concept to a group of experiences is to have a baby soul.

Yes, yes ... all quite "Developmental Psych 101".

Mostly, we are the sum of our parts, our pasts, and our parentage. Collectively, we all form the "Human Spirit".

It's only the "Human Spirit" that carries on into other people's future lives.

Good point.

All of our experience originates in the "human Spirit" i.e. in the society which forms us.

All of our actions originate from the subset of the "human spirit" which has been imparted to us through our experience. This is what we call the 'self'.

All of our actions, born of our experiences, contribute to the "human spirit", after we, unique subsets of the "human spirit", have performed our actions and ceased to exist.

All of our accomplishments are combined and integrated and passed down to succeeding generations, as a heritage.