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Do you believe in reincarnation?
Strong "yes!" 12%  12%  [ 6 ]
Strong "no!" 43%  43%  [ 22 ]
Eh, maybe it's possible... 45%  45%  [ 23 ]
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03 Nov 2020, 5:20 pm

I cannot risk any more accusations of "belittling" someone by explaining the invalidity of their beliefs.

Believe what you will, and let that belief lead you where it will.  I do not care any more.


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03 Nov 2020, 5:29 pm

Am sorry to have run your tolerances down ...... It was actually a intriguingly fun thread ....... and believe it or not your input of deciphering events and periodic tidbits of humour ... was actually interesting to me .. As much of your input here has been quite enjoyable to follow . Without your writings here to this site . Would have been a much less lively of a site . Thank you for those same writings . Pardon any offense , I may have. Inadvertently caused .


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03 Nov 2020, 5:32 pm

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I cannot risk any more accusations of "belittling" someone by explaining the invalidity of their beliefs.

Believe what you will, and let that belief lead you where it will.  I do not care any more.

There's a really cool hack for getting around that - engaging a conversation substantively. Belittling comes from a perception of strawmanning and the trick is don't strawman.


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03 Nov 2020, 5:37 pm

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You can't coach a 3 year old to pretend to be from a completely different village and person, people, family whom they never met and remember where they left items in a box etc...



I am interested in their brainwashing techniques. I have few Druze friends, my mother’s best family is Druze (and her daughters were childhood friends to us) - they’re very secretive about their faith tho but I do recall their reincarnation stories.



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03 Nov 2020, 5:41 pm

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There are many arguments against reincarnation...... would like to see some arguments that make sense of reincarnation ...... beside the basic Buddhist point of veiw , had heard of something called the “bridey Murphy “case.
Or even some existence beyond the grave of something , ENERGY, of some kind . entity or whatever .?
Maybe , I am just trying to validate beyond myself of A very old out body experience , I once had .?

Concern the Bridey Murphy case ?
Am not aware if that was ever debunked . It is a very old case supporting reincarnation . Concerning a younger American girl. And her detailed recollections of a life of a woman in England , that was able to be documented .


What was this experience?



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03 Nov 2020, 5:59 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Jakki wrote:
There are many arguments against reincarnation...... would like to see some arguments that make sense of reincarnation ...... beside the basic Buddhist point of veiw , had heard of something called the “bridey Murphy “case.
Or even some existence beyond the grave of something , ENERGY, of some kind . entity or whatever .?
Maybe , I am just trying to validate beyond myself of A very old out body experience , I once had .?

Concern the Bridey Murphy case ?
Am not aware if that was ever debunked . It is a very old case supporting reincarnation . Concerning a younger American girl. And her detailed recollections of a life of a woman in England , that was able to be documented .


What was this experience?


Fnord brought up the debunking of the Bridey Murphy ( see above)

As for my out of body experience , was merely practicing some deep relaxation techniques , that had learned
Then realizing was no longer feeling my own body. Laying in a bed , and having practiced these techniques for some months . Was absolutely shocked back into complete awareness of my own body , when having done this deep relaxation techniques,(this particular time ) and suddenly realized was looking down on my body in the bed , approximately from a vantage point of about , what was approximately 8 ft above my own body . Later had read such a thing was a possibility , when engaged in a deepen state of relaxing ones own body . As a possible experience
Not claiming this as a exploit but rather just sharing a experience .
Have had some weird experiences in my own life considering what is on the perimeter of what one might expect, the normal reality might be .


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03 Nov 2020, 8:20 pm

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I WISH I could believe I will come back as the person who cured cancer.

If there’s reincarnation, you probably don’t have a choice in the matter...if the gods want your soul to fill the body of a grasshopper, so be it.

according to edgar cayce et al, there is no retrograde transmigration of spirit. it is only forwards, or as the persian mystic Rumi said-
I died as a mineral and became a plant;
I died as a plant and rose to animal;
I died as animal and I was a man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as man to soar
With angels blest. Yet even from an angel
I must pass on; All except God must perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.



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03 Nov 2020, 8:22 pm

Jakki wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Jakki wrote:
There are many arguments against reincarnation...... would like to see some arguments that make sense of reincarnation ...... beside the basic Buddhist point of veiw , had heard of something called the “bridey Murphy “case.
Or even some existence beyond the grave of something , ENERGY, of some kind . entity or whatever .?
Maybe , I am just trying to validate beyond myself of A very old out body experience , I once had .?

Concern the Bridey Murphy case ?
Am not aware if that was ever debunked . It is a very old case supporting reincarnation . Concerning a younger American girl. And her detailed recollections of a life of a woman in England , that was able to be documented .


What was this experience?


Fnord brought up the debunking of the Bridey Murphy ( see above) As for my out of body experience , was merely practicing some deep relaxation techniques , that had learned
Then realizing was no longer feeling my own body. Laying in a bed , and having practiced these techniques for some months . Was absolutely shocked back into complete awareness of my own body , when having done this deep relaxation techniques,(this particular time ) and suddenly realized was looking down on my body in the bed , approximately from a vantage point of about , what was approximately 8 ft above my own body . Later had read such a thing was a possibility , when engaged in a deepen state of relaxing ones own body . As a possible experience
Not claiming this as a exploit but rather just sharing a experience .
Have had some weird experiences in my own life considering what is on the perimeter of what one might expect, the normal reality might be .

my older brother astrally projected as well when he was stationed in vietnam during the war there. he knew others who did so as well over there.



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03 Nov 2020, 8:35 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Jakki wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Jakki wrote:
There are many arguments against reincarnation...... would like to see some arguments that make sense of reincarnation ...... beside the basic Buddhist point of veiw , had heard of something called the “bridey Murphy “case.
Or even some existence beyond the grave of something , ENERGY, of some kind . entity or whatever .?
Maybe , I am just trying to validate beyond myself of A very old out body experience , I once had .?

Concern the Bridey Murphy case ?
Am not aware if that was ever debunked . It is a very old case supporting reincarnation . Concerning a younger American girl. And her detailed recollections of a life of a woman in England , that was able to be documented .


What was this experience?


Fnord brought up the debunking of the Bridey Murphy ( see above) As for my out of body experience , was merely practicing some deep relaxation techniques , that had learned
Then realizing was no longer feeling my own body. Laying in a bed , and having practiced these techniques for some months . Was absolutely shocked back into complete awareness of my own body , when having done this deep relaxation techniques,(this particular time ) and suddenly realized was looking down on my body in the bed , approximately from a vantage point of about , what was approximately 8 ft above my own body . Later had read such a thing was a possibility , when engaged in a deepen state of relaxing ones own body . As a possible experience
Not claiming this as a exploit but rather just sharing a experience .
Have had some weird experiences in my own life considering what is on the perimeter of what one might expect, the normal reality might be .

my older brother astrally projected as well when he was stationed in vietnam during the war there. he knew others who did so as well over there.


Have to wonder what the circumstances were under which , those people had their experiences ????


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03 Nov 2020, 8:36 pm

Fnord wrote:
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You can't coach a 3 year old to pretend to be from a completely different village and person, people, family whom they never met...
Have you never been a parent?  It's easy to coach kids into believing anything -- remember Santa Claus?  Adults can even coach kids into believing that getting naked and making porn is a normal childhood thing to do -- this disgusting process is called "grooming". 
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... and remember where they left items in a box etc...
What's the difference between telling a kid that he left his brother's hand-me-down 21st-century jacket in the car and telling the same kid that he left the 18th-century toys they inherited from their great-grandparents' in the attic?


Actually Fnord it's a real phenomena and is taken seriously by psychologists
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog ... past-lives

One of the interesting observations is that the memory of the past life fades after the child turns 6 years old.



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03 Nov 2020, 8:46 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
You can't coach a 3 year old to pretend to be from a completely different village and person, people, family whom they never met and remember where they left items in a box etc...



I am interested in their brainwashing techniques. I have few Druze friends, my mother’s best family is Druze (and her daughters were childhood friends to us) - they’re very secretive about their faith tho but I do recall their reincarnation stories.


Hindu mysticism and polytheism was present in the middle east prior to islam transmitted westward from western India via Iran into the middle east. After islam the groups who followed hindu beliefs became more careful not to be overt such as the Druze, Bahai, Yazidi and Zoroastrians as they all faces potential persecution for their beliefs.

The one exception are the whirling Dervishes of Turkey and muslim provinces in Bulgaria who follow a type of hindu transcendental meditation involving using movement to induce trance (this is still practiced by yogis and nagas in India).



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03 Nov 2020, 10:02 pm

Jakki wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Jakki wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Jakki wrote:
There are many arguments against reincarnation...... would like to see some arguments that make sense of reincarnation ...... beside the basic Buddhist point of veiw , had heard of something called the “bridey Murphy “case.
Or even some existence beyond the grave of something , ENERGY, of some kind . entity or whatever .?
Maybe , I am just trying to validate beyond myself of A very old out body experience , I once had .?

Concern the Bridey Murphy case ?
Am not aware if that was ever debunked . It is a very old case supporting reincarnation . Concerning a younger American girl. And her detailed recollections of a life of a woman in England , that was able to be documented .


What was this experience?


Fnord brought up the debunking of the Bridey Murphy ( see above) As for my out of body experience , was merely practicing some deep relaxation techniques , that had learned
Then realizing was no longer feeling my own body. Laying in a bed , and having practiced these techniques for some months . Was absolutely shocked back into complete awareness of my own body , when having done this deep relaxation techniques,(this particular time ) and suddenly realized was looking down on my body in the bed , approximately from a vantage point of about , what was approximately 8 ft above my own body . Later had read such a thing was a possibility , when engaged in a deepen state of relaxing ones own body . As a possible experience
Not claiming this as a exploit but rather just sharing a experience .
Have had some weird experiences in my own life considering what is on the perimeter of what one might expect, the normal reality might be .

my older brother astrally projected as well when he was stationed in vietnam during the war there. he knew others who did so as well over there.


Have to wonder what the circumstances were under which , those people had their experiences ????

some amount of psychological and physical stress, most likely. some saw their lives flash before their eyes.



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04 Nov 2020, 2:43 am

Jakki wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Jakki wrote:
There are many arguments against reincarnation...... would like to see some arguments that make sense of reincarnation ...... beside the basic Buddhist point of veiw , had heard of something called the “bridey Murphy “case.
Or even some existence beyond the grave of something , ENERGY, of some kind . entity or whatever .?
Maybe , I am just trying to validate beyond myself of A very old out body experience , I once had .?

Concern the Bridey Murphy case ?
Am not aware if that was ever debunked . It is a very old case supporting reincarnation . Concerning a younger American girl. And her detailed recollections of a life of a woman in England , that was able to be documented .


What was this experience?


Fnord brought up the debunking of the Bridey Murphy ( see above)

As for my out of body experience , was merely practicing some deep relaxation techniques , that had learned
Then realizing was no longer feeling my own body. Laying in a bed , and having practiced these techniques for some months . Was absolutely shocked back into complete awareness of my own body , when having done this deep relaxation techniques,(this particular time ) and suddenly realized was looking down on my body in the bed , approximately from a vantage point of about , what was approximately 8 ft above my own body . Later had read such a thing was a possibility , when engaged in a deepen state of relaxing ones own body . As a possible experience
Not claiming this as a exploit but rather just sharing a experience .
Have had some weird experiences in my own life considering what is on the perimeter of what one might expect, the normal reality might be .


This reminds me of sleep paralysis - which I had few times.

But I don’t see self in sleep paralysis; but I see the room around, hearing the vibrations of my ears and incapable of any movement - it does feel it’s not your body anymore. I read some experience other visuals; such seeing a “demon” on chest or seeing self.

Maybe the deep relaxation technique went too far, cutting some oxygen for a moment and putting you in a kinda sleep paralysis mode? Sleep paralysis occurs between the sleep and wake up phase.



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04 Nov 2020, 4:30 pm

Interesting discussion of skepticism in this context:


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01 Feb 2021, 7:57 pm

Yes.
Each incarnation is vehicle for soul to evolve.



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01 Feb 2021, 8:07 pm

[speaking figuratively here!] some "vehicles" are Cadillac's, some are Yugo's or even jalopies or roller skates. the tougher lessons are learned on the most rudimentary vehicles.