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BOYS NIGHT MARES SUGGEST PAST LIFE(cnn debate)

It's not really a belief - more like an opinion. I figure if it can happen at all it will be quick. If it's slow it won't work right. Some expert would know more than I do about this. I don't really know anything about it at all.
 
William Parcher said:
It's not really a belief - more like an opinion. I figure if it can happen at all it will be quick. If it's slow it won't work right. Some expert would know more than I do about this. I don't really know anything about it at all.
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The thing about this that really bothers me is the fact that there are more babies being born than people dying. If new souls (for lack of a better term) must be created for these extra babies, why bother with the concept at all?
 
That's terrific....If it happens quick....

Let's run this one by you again. Everything we know about neuroscience indicates that consciousness is a product of the electrochemical activity of the brain. If we alter the physical properties of the brain, by trauma or disease, we alter consciousness.
Specific damages to specific parts of the brain cause specific alterations in consciousness and perception.
Read any primer on neuroscience or psychology for details.

Likewise with the chemical aspects. Alter the amount of neurotransmitters, or their uptake or re-uptake rate, and you immediately get observable and consistent problems and symptoms. Psychoactive drugs, mental illness resulting from chemical imbalance problems...
All well-observed.
We can actually watch the human brain process information under devices like MRI, and measure the electrical activity resulting from that.

Now you want this immensely complex activity, shown to be bound to both the physical structure of the brain and it's electrochemical activity, to exist completely apart from the brain. To somehow waft from a dying individual's brain (intact!) and take up residence in an infant's brain, which would presumably be like the proverbial "blank slate", waiting for this happy moment.

Belief in such a thing requires a leap of faith I would not be willing to make, especially on the flimsy and anecdotal evidence ordinarily presented.
 
KingMerv00 said:
To Whom It May Concern:

Thank you for handing in your essay on time but all you sent me was your bibliography page. Please send the body as soon as possible.

Sincerely,
Prof. Merv
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He sent you links to two YouTube videos. Did you watch them?
 
William Parcher said:
It's not really a belief - more like an opinion. I figure if it can happen at all it will be quick. If it's slow it won't work right. Some expert would know more than I do about this. I don't really know anything about it at all.
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I meant why are you of the opinion it happens at all?
 
Limbo said:
My opinion is that you should quit rationalizing reasons not to watch vids I give you.
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I've seen other videos you've posted and I found them lacking. I don't plan to just watch random videos of your choosing just because you post them. I'm in a discussion forum to discuss things, not to be talked at and then ignored.
 
Hokulele said:
A bibliography is a list of references that either support the essay or are cited in the essay. KingMerv00 is referring to the complete lack of essay which those two links are intended to support.
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And I am referring to the complete lack of KingMerv00 watching the videos. The second one is particularly interesting: A 4-year old boy was plagued by throat problems, caused by a large cyst. He underwent a tonsillectomy, preparatory to additional surgery to remove the cyst. At that point, he told his mother he had died in WWI, having been shot in the throat. Then, inexplicably, his throat cyst disappeared. Neither the boy's father -- a medical doctor -- nor the boy's ear, nose, and throat specialist can explain why the cyst disappeared.
 
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I sit here waiting to read the kid's complete medical history. It shan't be forthcoming, I fear.
 
KingMerv00 said:
I've seen other videos you've posted and I found them lacking. I don't plan to just watch random videos of your choosing just because you post them. I'm in a discussion forum to discuss things, not to be talked at and then ignored.
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Just curious which other videos you've seen that I posted? You didn't watch The Man who Drank the Universe, only the beginning and end. Right? And to my knowledge you didn't watch Power of Myth at all, right? What other ones are there?
 
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Limbo said:
Just curious which other videos you've seen that I posted? You didn't watch The Man who Drank the Universe, only the beginning and end. Right? And to my knowledge you didn't watch Power of Myth at all, right? What other ones are there?
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Actually, I watched both of those, I just didn't post about them. I had lost enough time already.
 
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KingMerv00 said:
Actually, I watched both of those, I just didn't post about them.
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Oh. Ok I'll just take your word for it.

Sorry if you found The Power of Myth lacking. Many people are impressed with it, it's one of PBS's most popular award-winning series. But I posted it and you found it lacking. What an amazing coincidence.
 
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William Parcher said:
Just something to think about.
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...another thing to think about is what exactly it is you're talking about...

You seem to be saying that reincarnation is possible, because (like God) you can't prove it false. Unfortunately for you, the burden of proof rests on the person making the claim. So to claim reincarnation is possible, you must show evidence why you say that. Little kids mispronouncing names and "remembering" common occurances and well-known events do NOT count as evidence.

Also, reincarnation is a Hindu/Jainist thing. What's up with all these Christians being reincarnated? I thought only the Son of God could be reincarnated. Exactly how many Jesuses are there?

It can't stay out of a brain for long, and so that is why it shoots very fast over from a dead person into a new baby. Maybe less than a minute or some other short amount of time that is like a minute or something.
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How do you know? Where do you get this information? Sylvia Browne's books?

Here's the deal: even if reincarnation is real and souls do "shoot very fast" from dead people into newborns, that still doesn't account for population growth. There are billions more people now than there were 2000 years ago. That either means only the original souls get recycled and reincarnated, while other souls are waiting "on deck" for their first attempt at life. Or (more likely) that means that reincarnation doesn't happen at all.

And if only the "original" souls are able to be reincarnated, how many would that be? And who gets to choose that number? Are there only 2 souls being reincarnated (Adam and Eve)? Are there 8 souls (Noah and his family)? Are there 144,000 souls (tribes of Israel)? Who gets reincarnated and who doesn't? Who makes the choice? And if you can answer any of those questions, the next should be obvious: How do you know?

So, William, you're going to have to provide evidence that reincarnation is possible, because every new child born every minute on this planet could be considered evidence that it isn't.
 
Hokulele said:
The thing about this that really bothers me is the fact that there are more babies being born than people dying. If new souls (for lack of a better term) must be created for these extra babies, why bother with the concept at all?
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Which leads me to the questions:

Where did the first minds come from?

Isn't it unfair for these old minds to posses young bodies?
 
Limbo said:
My opinion is that you should quit rationalizing reasons not to watch vids I give you.
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It's my opinion that I am not here on this forum to watch videos of your choosing.

If you can't formulate it in your own words then you do not understand it. If you don't understand it how can you explain it to others?
 
And if a baby is unexpectedly born early, or induced, the soul it was originally going to get isn't quite freed yet and someone else sneaks in?
 
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