Do you believe in reincarnation?

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Many non-skeptics have the habits of (a) adhering to their beliefs only because those beliefs make them feel good, and of (b) rejecting any real-world data if it does not conform to those beliefs.

Plenty of good reminders in this thread that arguments over metaphysics of this sort aren't just similar to politics - they are a kind of politics. The behaviors around them tend to be the same, the behavioral IQ notches tend to be the same (people who generally float around 115 to 120 dipping 30 points), and the partisan hacks tend to be very little different than they would be if the topic were Blue or Red team. It's not 'anyone not on muhside', it's the general temperature and moves being made.

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Reincarnation is in the core of the Druze faith, a religion which is very ancient in my country - they have strange and complicated familial ties like "siblings-by-reincarnation" or "mother-by-reincarnation" ; a 10 years old girl for instance may claim she was the mother of now-adults family and she may even acquire certain rights from that "former" family.

Full old documentary on the subject; I think it was shot in early 90 just after the war



I personally believe they brainwash these kids somehow, implanting memories into them that they aren't theirs (think of the Inception movie; which is a fiction but you get the idea) . The way how these 'incarnated' kids talk like adults about their brutal "deaths" is kinda creepy tho.

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I share this belief, and extend it to all so-called "reincarnated" people.  They are either deliberate frauds, or what they "remember" are based on stories they've heard as children -- the previously-mention Virginia Tighe/Bridey Murphy case, for example.

So the logic is something like 'psychic claims don't vet ergo consciousness only exists on neurons'. Smooth transition I suppose for some.

Then it's only relevant to a particular corner of this topic.

Is reincarnation a paranormal ability?

Their philosophy/faith is influenced by hinduism.

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...

Similarly a dead person doesn't go to a skeptic society and say 'Here's a paranormal ability I have - I can make two living people shag and I'll be born nine months later! Gimme my money!'.

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".  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?

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This is entertaining as you have put limits on your own concept of deja Vu ..... but when exact moments occur
In a experience including exact dialogue without any prior dialog or physical interaction . It does cause myself to wonder . And am using Deja Vu quit loosely here , precognition might be a more appropriate word . As was seeing and hearing exact words and sentence , including placement of individuals moving into a front yard . Approx , 1 full minute prior to having had the experience occurr . Prior to my own arrival into the other side of that same yard.
And no indication before this that this interaction would possibly exist.
What neurochemical precursors , would allow for such a experience to exist.? This was prior to having be evaluated for any kind of diagnosis concerning myself. By many many years .