Does anyone here believe in reincarnation?

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It's true if you believe it.

Belief before truth?

Sounds like religion to me.

Examples of Belief Before Truth can be found at This Wikipedia Page.

I suggest that you give the list a long, hard read before coming back and telling me that anything you believe is automatically true.

Two sides to every story.

I think Pepe said something either in this thread or another thread, ie. that as aspies we tend to go really deep into researching special interests and getting to know the ins and outs of them, that we quite often don't research other areas and count on a surface skim. This topic has always seemed lop-sided to me because it's almost guaranteed that profound and strident skeptics are coming from that place - ie. they rarely ever know the ins and outs of the topic, the best research, the best cases to be made, the closest I've seen to come to that and read much on these things were shlaifu and the second (female - not the Resourced-Based Economy MC) incarnation of Adamantium and even there the digestion of this material is almost always bulldozed with psychological theories. You have the reverse of this, lets say, with the bible because something like the bible unravels the more you read it. With the rest of the examination of the world of psi it seems like the opposite, and when you have a die-hard skeptic actually give it a chance and explore it they might still stake their core in something like eliminative materialism but, I think Susan Blackmore is a great example of this, she's at least convinced of the depth of a mystery that other people are papering over.

That's probably one of the things that's the most astounding to me on these topics - ie. that almost anywhere else, other than politics or 'spirituality', everyone's competing for the best set of facts where here and in politics it seems like people are trying to find the most perfect designer set of blinders. I don't base that suggestion on people disagreeing with me and if it weren't quite a bit more than that, ie. entire style and approach to information, I wouldn't feel confident that I was seeing past my own pet distortions (the assumption goes that if you could see them you wouldn't have them) but there are tells which can inform you - even if someone fully agrees with you in theory - that they agree with you for poorly thought out reasons and you can see just as well when they disagree and it's as if you're trying to speak to a part of them that's hiding a missing limb or a gunshot wound from themselves, something that they can't explore... almost out of a sense sometimes that I think it would unravel them.

I still believe in reincarnation despite Fnord trying to put my personal beliefs down.