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Wouldn't we all. 
17 Sep 2008, 4:04 pm
lionesss
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17 Sep 2008, 4:30 pm
anna-banana wrote:
lionesss wrote:
As far as coming back as a different species, its possible but I am not so sure about what happens really happens with animals. Correct me if I am wrong on this but I heard that Buddhists believe if you had accumulated karmic debt in one life, then you'll come back as an animal. However, I am not Buddhist and I do not believe this to be true at all... but its an interesting concept. If it is indeed true, then I hate to know what Adolf Hitler would have come back as.
actually it's not that easy. basically, buddhists believe that to be born as a human being is *extremely* fortunate. I can't remember now how this metaphor goes but it was something like throwing a rock into the ocean and hitting a fish in the head (provided that there is only one fish in the whole ocean), of course there's no way you can count the odds of that ;p but still, the theory is that you only get a human life once in a long, long while. so basically if your karma is on the dodgy side you can forget about coming back a human. I guess that it makes sense considering the number of creatures with at least some partial conciousness.
personally I like to think that people such as Hitler fall into a neverending circle of lives as mosquitos and other filthy creatures that everybody kills with pleasure
That explains why there are so many extremely ugly insects around!
17 Sep 2008, 4:37 pm
lionesss wrote:
anna-banana wrote:
lionesss wrote:
As far as coming back as a different species, its possible but I am not so sure about what happens really happens with animals. Correct me if I am wrong on this but I heard that Buddhists believe if you had accumulated karmic debt in one life, then you'll come back as an animal. However, I am not Buddhist and I do not believe this to be true at all... but its an interesting concept. If it is indeed true, then I hate to know what Adolf Hitler would have come back as.
actually it's not that easy. basically, buddhists believe that to be born as a human being is *extremely* fortunate. I can't remember now how this metaphor goes but it was something like throwing a rock into the ocean and hitting a fish in the head (provided that there is only one fish in the whole ocean), of course there's no way you can count the odds of that ;p but still, the theory is that you only get a human life once in a long, long while. so basically if your karma is on the dodgy side you can forget about coming back a human. I guess that it makes sense considering the number of creatures with at least some partial conciousness.
personally I like to think that people such as Hitler fall into a neverending circle of lives as mosquitos and other filthy creatures that everybody kills with pleasure
That explains why there are so many extremely ugly insects around!
exactly LOL
there has to be some balance for all those fluffy bunnies ;p
17 Sep 2008, 4:52 pm
17 Sep 2008, 5:01 pm
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17 Sep 2008, 5:03 pm
LePetitPrince wrote:
So incarnating as human is the reward in Buddhism? That religion must really suck.
I know
sometimes I wish I had the life of a dog.. eat, play, get walks, lie around and do nothing... then again, when its in the dead of winter and having to run outside to go to the bathroom.. that would suck. So I take that back, I think...
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17 Sep 2008, 5:33 pm
Why would Christians try to tell you that Christianity is not a religion? 
That's just plain queer.
17 Sep 2008, 5:36 pm
So it seems you don't have the Yahweh's Witnesses Christian sect in your countries.
Besides, no one commented on my long post about the Druze 
