Thoughts on reincarnation

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Originally Posted by Angushjalmur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have a theory that reincarnation is a legit thing, though not necessarily in the same way it's traditionally viewed.

See, energy cannot be created or destroyed, but the amount of energy in the universe IS finite. This holds true for all energy, including souls. I believe that most people today are essentially NPCs, because the number of people greatly outweighs the number of souls available. While some people are born with souls, most are not simply because there aren't enough to go around. This explains a lot. From the grossly successful people who have risen the ranks by any degenerate means necessary (they have the compulsion for success but not the soul to act as a governor of their actions) to the fat girls who dress like they weigh 115 and think they're sexy. These people lack souls and are thus lacking self awareness. Hollow if you will.

Ancient civilizations were somehow able to figure out the gist of things like the big bang, quite possibly because early on some souls were reincarnated retaining knowledge of past lives. Following this logic, it's entirely possible for whomever was responsible for the georgia guide stones to have some sort of insider knowledge of how many souls there are available. Perhaps 500,000,000 is in the neighborhood of how many souls are available.

Every culture has had some belief regarding reincarnation, or at least the soul living on after the physical body dies. The viking soul went to one of several ethereal planes depending on how the soul lived (and died) in the physical world. Native americans believed the soul returned to nature with the body. Buddhists believe the soul takes up another body upon death to come back and learn another lesson. It's important to not deny or ignore that which cannot be quantified by trendy current science, and to remember that not all ancient knowledge is the result of drug use or primitive rationalization. Our ancestors knew some stuff that they had no right knowing by today's standards. What are your thoughts on reincarnation?

Energy can't be created or destroyed, but it doesn't really work like how you're saying. The earth loses a lot of energy through convection/radiation to space, and we get radiant energy from the sun. All energy on earth can trace its source back to the sun. The energy that you are using to survive now can trace its origin to the plant that used the sun to make glucose (or other organic molecules). But you are also radiating energy constantly.

What I am saying is that it's not the fact that you have energy that makes you a person, hell a car battery has fucktons more energy than you do.

I think we are basically no more than complicated machines, and trying to understand the sheer complexity of our brains is not really possible, using that same brain. There are 100 trillion synapses (connections between neurons) in the brain, and it's these complexity of these electrical impulses and not the magnitude of electricity that make us subjectively feel human.

As for your question of reincarnation, I think it's just fanciful. But our genes are immortal.