whats re-incarnation? and is it real?

Question

all you christian dunces shut up
what is reincarnation, like exactly.
and do you think its real ( mainly athiests, but if there are some sensible christians out there feel free to answer )

Answer 1

It's the idea that you will be reborn after your death, with your "station" in your next life determined by how you behaved in this one.



And no, it's not real -- or at the very least, we have no reason to THINK that it's real.

Answer 2

Reincarnation is coming back from the dead in a seance. It could be being reborn as something solid or another animal or human. Depending on your "past" life and what you did is how they decide. As for is it real how should anyone know. It is something you believe in just like any other religion weather it be Christian, Jewish, Methodist ext. Atheists would not believe in this because they believe in no higher form and to be reincarnated you would have to believe that some sort of God decided this fate for you.



Why do you feel the need to just say "all you christian dunces shut up"? Can you just not add at the end what you did and ask people nicely to be nice and respectful we "christian dunces" would respond to that better instead of your jurkey attitude!



I feel I know about this stuff even though I dont believe in it so maybe you should listen to what we "christian dunces" have to say.

Answer 3

I'd say that re-incarnation is the concept that death=rebirth. Without life there is no death. So life and death being so closely binded, maybe death only means the creation of new life. People are born and die everyday.



I say that, much like god, or the theory of the big bang, re-incarnation can neither be proven nor disproven.



Although personaly I find re-incarnation alot easier to beleive in then hell or heaven... For some reason, re-incarnation seems to make alot more sense then ghosts and angels. But hey that's my personal opinion.



Truth be told, we won't know till we get there. In the meanwhile, enjoy life at 100%, and once you get there it won't matter what happens, because you will have had a fullfilling life.



Peace :)

Answer 4

Reincarnation, literally "to be made flesh again", is a doctrine or metaphysical belief that some essential part of a living being (in some variations only human beings) survives death to be reborn in a new body. This essential part is often referred to as the spirit or soul, the "higher" or "true" self, "divine spark", or "I". According to some beliefs, a new personality is developed during each life in the physical world, but some part of the self remains constant throughout the successive lives.

Answer 5

Re-incarnation is coming back to life in another body.

Example: you die, and you'll come back in the body of a neighbor's child that was born around the time you died.

Some people say they are a re-incarnation, so they believe it.

Others don't.

No one knows how is the real process, and you may not remember your past life so you can't recount it either.

Answer 6

It's really there's a video on youtube of a boy who remembered his past life and that he was a pilot in a war in Japan, and he could remember his friends names, and knew alot about planes at a young age. His parents researched the things he told them, and they all turned out to be true. They even met the guy he was with when his plane crashed and he confirmed that everything the kid said was accurate, even though his death wasn't even on file.

Answer 7

Reincarnation is being repeatedly born again into a new body after death, with no memory of past lives.



Since nobody knows what happens after death, its reality is unknown. It is just one of many beliefs.

Answer 8

Reincarnation is being reborn in another body after death. No, it's not real

Answer 9

It means that when you die, you come back either as a clone of yourself, or as something else. No I do not think it is real. If it is it is, but as I saw someone type earlier that they thought it was a point against atheists: death will tell.

Answer 10

it is being reborn into a nother life,depending on your karma, if you are a VERY GOOD person you will be reborn into the body of a cow. all depending on karma,is what you will return to life as.mabye a fly,spider,another human,fish...etc...basicly being reborn,,but it cant be true because there is no evidence.

Answer 11

Are you talking about that brand of evaporated milk? It's used mainly for baking, I believe.

Answer 12

Reincarnation is being reborn as another entity after your death, and no, there is no evidence for it.

Answer 13

I wish it were real so i can be reincarnated into a hott babe

Answer 14

its a belief that when any thing living i guess not plants , but any thing living when it dies comes back as something else living. i wish it was true at times i want to come back as kim jong il or MJ

Answer 15

It is the incorrect belief that you come back to life after you die. It is bogus.

Answer 16

yes it is real



There was young green and peach colored rooster his siblings were red and high pitched pink. He asked his father why and his father replied with "why". What was strange was the rooster had webbed feet and a flattened beak. To the squirrel who was a chronic alcoholic this was no strange incident. He had seen the roosters mother hanging with the ducks frequently and would yell to the sheepish rooster your mothers a ****! The rooster was only 3 years of age and did not understand this word. He would mimic the word in school and often was told to go to the prinicpals office. The principal was a heavy set badger with brown and yellow teeth. The badger was not so surprised because he too had frequently visited his mother and in fact had paid for many abortions in the past. To the common man when he saw this family of roosters they looked down on them. The poor green and peached color rooster had high ambitions and one day decided to move to africa where he had heard about the vast animal kingdom and its majesty the lioness. He dreamed of encountering her glory and perhaps in his wildest aspirations bewedding her. Years went by as he swam the great distance assuredly he was helped by the golden dolphins who were helpers of those lost at sea. Nearly awaiting his arrival a great white shark with a maroon nose and crystal blue eyes impeded the path of the dolphin with rooster on board. Hault! exclaimed the shark. You must pay to pass. Neither the dolphin or rooster had money. So the shark said if you dare pass you both will pay with your life. The dolphin in his altruistic way gladly told the shark if we both will die i would gladly give my life for this rooster is my guest and he must arrive at his destination. the shark knew the dolphins were selfless and quickly ate him and regurgatated the golden skin so to use for currency. however the shark was still hungry and it had been years since he ate poultry. not being a man of his word he thrusted towards the floating rooster. amidst devouring the helpless rooster a whale knocked the shark away. he was sherrif in this territory and had saw what happened. he arrested the shark and charged him with extortion. he gladly escorted the rooster to shore. sadly he did not realize he came to close and was beached. the rooster cried as many animals devoured the whale. he shuffled away into the brush and found himself in a magical place where he met a flamingo named frank. frank was a nice old chap...

Answer 17

Coming back from the dead.

Answer 18

Bg 15.8 P The Yoga of the Supreme Person

At the time of death, the consciousness he has created will carry him on to the next type of body. If he has made his consciousness like that of a cat or dog, he is sure to change to a cat's or dog's body. And, if he has fixed his consciousness on godly consciousness, he will be transferred to Krsnaloka in the spiritual world and will associate with Krsna. It is a false claim that after the annihilation of this body everything is finished. The individual soul is transmigrating from one body to another, and his present body and present activities are the background of his next body. One gets a different body according to karma, and he has to quit this body in due course. It is stated here that the subtle body, which carries the conception of the next body, develops another body in the next life. This process of transmigrating from one body to another and struggling while in the body is called karsati or struggle for existence.



SB 4.29.64 P Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi

In dreams we sometimes see things that we have never experienced in the present body. Sometimes in dreams we think that we are flying in the sky, although we have no experience of flying. This means that once in a previous life, either as a demigod or astronaut, we flew in the sky. The impression is there in the stockpile of the mind, and it suddenly expresses itself. It is like fermentation taking place in the depths of water, which sometimes manifests itself in bubbles on the water's surface. Sometimes we dream of coming to a place we have never known or experienced in this lifetime, but this is proof that in a past life we experienced this. The impression is kept within the mind and sometimes becomes manifest either in dream or in thought. The conclusion is that the mind is the storehouse of various thoughts and experiences undergone during our past lives. Thus there is a chain of continuation from one life to another, from previous lives to this life, and from this life to future lives. This is also sometimes proved by saying that a man is a born poet, a born scientist or a born devotee. If, like Maharaja Ambarisa, we think of Krsna constantly in this life (sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayoh), we will certainly be transferred to the kingdom of God at the time of death. Even if our attempt to be Krsna conscious is not complete, our Krsna consciousness will continue in the next life. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (6.41):



prapya punya-krtam lokan

usitva sasvatih samah

sucinam srimatam gehe

yoga-bhrasto 'bhijayate



"The unsuccessful yogi, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy."



If we rigidly follow the principles of meditation on Krsna, there is no doubt that in our next life we will be transferred to Krsnaloka, Goloka Vrndavana.



SB 4.29.66 Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi

O King, all good fortune unto you! The mind is the cause of the living entity's attaining a certain type of body in accordance with his association with material nature. According to one's mental composition, one can understand what the living entity was in his past life as well as what kind of body he will have in the future. Thus the mind indicates the past and future bodies.

PURPORT

The mind is the index of information about one's past and future lives. If a man is a devotee of the Lord, he cultivated devotional service in his previous life. Similarly, if one's mind is criminal, he was criminal in his last life. In the same way, according to the mind, we can understand what will happen in a future life.



SB 7.15.69 P Instructions for Civilized Human Beings

"By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together is the duration of Brahma's one day. And such also is the duration of his night." Bhagavan Sri Krsna can remember incidents from millions of years ago. Similarly, His pure devotee like Narada Muni can also remember incidents from a past life millions and millions of years ago.



Changing Bodies (LCFL)

Dr. Singh. People want more proof.

Srila Prabhupada. What more is required? The eternality of the soul is a simple fact. I am an eternal soul. My body is changing, but I am not changing. For example, I am now an old man. Sometimes I think, "Oh, I used to jump and play, but now I cannot jump because my body has changed." I want to jump, but I cannot do it. That jumping propensity is eternal, but because of my old body I cannot do it.

Dr. Singh. Opponents will say that according to their observation, the nature of consciousness is that it lasts for only one body.

Srila Prabhupada. That is foolishness. In Bhagavad-gita (2.13) Krsna explains:



dehino 'smin yatha dehe

kaumaram yauvanam jara

tatha dehantara-praptir

dhiras tatra na muhyati



"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." Just as this body is always changing (as I can see in my daily experience), there is a similar change at the time of death.

Dr. Singh. But according to the scientists, we cannot actually observe this last change.

Srila Prabhupada. Their eyes are so imperfect that they cannot observe many, many things. Their ignorance does not make the Bhagavad-gita unscientific. Why don't the scientists admit the imperfection of their senses? They must first admit the imperfection of their senses. Their seeing power does not determine what is and what is not science. Dogs cannot understand the laws of nature. Does that mean the laws of nature don't exist?

Dr. Singh. Well, the scientists admit that argument, but they say the way to become perfect is through objective information and experience.

Srila Prabhupada. No. That is not the way to become perfect. No one can become perfect through imperfect thinking, and our thinking must be imperfect because our senses and minds are imperfect.

Dr. Singh. Srila Prabhupada, another question can be raised. is it not possible that the soul may accept three, four or five bodies and then die?

Srila Prabhupada. You are accepting millions of bodies. I say that your body of yesterday is not your body of today. So, if you live for one hundred years, how many times have you changed bodies? Just calculate.

Dr. Singh. Thirteen.

Srila Prabhupada. Why thirteen?

Dr. Singh. Medical science says that all the bodily cells are replaced every seven years.

Srila Prabhupada. No, not every seven years--every second. Every second, the blood corpuscles are changing. Is it not so?

Dr. Singh. Yes.

Srila Prabhupada. And as soon as the blood corpuscles change, you change your body.

Dr. Singh. In scientific terminology, can the eternality of the soul be compared to conservation of energy?

Srila Prabhupada. There is no question of the conservation of energy, because energy is always existing.

Dr. Singh. But according to scientific terminology, the law of conservation of energy is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, which means, I think, that it is eternal.

Srila Prabhupada. Oh, yes, that we admit. Krsna is eternal; therefore all His energies are eternal.

Dr. Singh. Is that why the living entity is also eternal?

Srila Prabhupada. Yes. If the sun is eternal, its energies--heat and light--are also eternal.

Dr. Singh. Does it follow from this, then, that life cannot be created or destroyed?

Srila Prabhupada. Yes. Life is eternal. It is not created or destroyed. It is only temporarily covered. I am eternal, but last night I was covered by sleep, so I think in terms of yesterday and today. This is the condition of the material world.