thesun.co.uk — He liked to draw pictures of his home too — a long single-storey, white house standing in a bay. But it sent shivers down his mum’s spine — because Cameron said it was somewhere they had never been, 160 miles away from where they lived.
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jorgegtDec 22, 2006
Plato also had the myth of Anamnesis: the rational part of soul is inmortal and remembers things that you knew in the past. And what? The only good thing about Plato is the free sex if you study maths and philosophy.
neibyDec 23, 2006
Simply read the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson. He has conducted hundreds upon hundreds of scientific case studies.Quote: "Ian Stevenson is the former head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, and now is Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. He has devoted the last 40 years to the scientific documentation of past life memories of children from all over the world and has over 3000 cases in his files. Many people, including skeptics and scholars, agree that these cases offer the best evidence yet for reincarnation."<a class="user" href="http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/">http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies/</a><a class="user" href="http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation01.html">http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation01.html</a><a class="user" href="http://lifebeforelife.com/casestudies.htm">http://lifebeforelife.com/casestudies.htm</a><a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/ylgctl">http://tinyurl.com/ylgctl</a><a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/yhoclp">http://tinyurl.com/yhoclp</a>
dan0111Dec 23, 2006
Never trust the British tabloids.
prestoDec 23, 2006
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belariandDec 23, 2006
dammit... how do my comments always get way too long and out of control.... sorry everyone
Closed AccountDec 24, 2006
I always love the fact that re-incarnations never have the re-ncarnated living in a pile of their own s**t/illiterate/degenerate/deviant/poor/unhappy/etc. Always King of England or Einstein or whatever, after all who wants to be pay five bucks to find out that you were a crack whore who was beaten to death while sucking your pimps dick. This kid was reincarnated from another kid who lived 160 miles away, in similar generation, with similar life? Of the 100s of billions of previous lives, it happened to be one that was extraordinarily similar --- the kid has imagination, but apparently not that much.
belariandDec 25, 2006
@jstanden"...until you arrive at a magical "God" figure which started it all."But remember, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic ;) Personally, I don't think it is much of a stretch at all to believe that humans were, at some point in the past, monkeys which were genetically modified by another (higher) species. I don't think that this view automatically denies the possibility of theistic creation either, I just tend to view God as a behind-the-scenes kind of being. God likes to get things accomplished through others or through natural processes, and the 'alien astronaut' theory does coincide fairly well to many Christian beliefs about angels and/or demons. It's a bit like the beginning of 2001 (a space odyssey), in that a form of homonids were genetically modified to have self-consciousness and rational thought, or, in flowery religious language, '...God created man in his own image..." I've found that the books of Zechariah Sitchin are a particularly interesting presentation of this theory."...the machinery that created our universe has always existed."Which means that instead of a conscious God, one would be left with an unconscious 'mechanism'. A universe making machine, so to speak. This is certainly a possibility, but I have a tough time finding any meaning in life if we are all only here due to some device that does nothing but make universes like a factory that makes a car. I have yet to decide if this is a simple lack of imagination on my part, or if the lack of a conscious creator entity directly implies a lack of meaning in existence. The other aspect of this that I have trouble with is, as I said before, where did the information come from? I would imagine this universe-making-machine as a highly advanced computer that is running a program to try out all possible combinations of physical variables. (the obvious question being for what purpose?) The problem with this is that computers are completely worthless without a programmer to give them a big list of instructions and computations to perform. So I suggest that either this universe-making-computer needs a programmer, or it is a self-conscious universe-making-computer that decides how to write its own program, which is round-about way of describing an existing conscious being that has many God-like characteristics."The argument of "it's so perfect" assumes the universe (with it's huge array of physical variables) only had one chance to get things right."Does that imply multiple universes? Or a kind of death / rebirth cycle to everything that exists (universe included)? If it implies a cyclical universe, does that mean that evolution expands to the next level, the evolution of universes? If so, how would one universe pass on its traits to the next? Big bang -> expansion -> contraction -> Big Crunch... repeated over and over... Certainly very possible, but when I think about something like that, it really makes me feel like Hinduism hit some aspects right on the head. I've been very attracted to the philosophy of Nada Brahma for some time now. The term basically means that sound is god. Or put a different way, vibration is god. Which makes quite a bit of sense scientifically when one looks at the fundamental structures of matter and energy. It also explains why music has such a unique effect on humans. Everything seems to have vibratory qualities. I can just as easily say that the music that I'm listening to right now is vibrating at me, as I can say that the picture I'm looking at on my wall is vibrating at me, as is the plant in front of my window, and so on. There are some philosophies that suggest that everything that exists is in a constant state of expansion/contraction at a frequency so great that we don't even notice it (like watching 24 images per second projected onto a screen and seeing it as a smooth flowing movie). I appreciate your comments, jstanden, and I will read The Blind Watchmaker, do you have any other books that you would recommend?Does anyone else think that they should add a digg->philosophy section? Whose leg do you have to hump...
morgrarDec 25, 2006
That movie was awful. I never walk out of movies, but that one forced me to. That and White Women. Jeez.
jmahlerDec 26, 2006
Sorry for the confusion, but I didn't reference the Bible, but instead the Gospel of John. Some may not consider there to be a difference, but I do.And there are examples of reincarnation in the Bible, actually at least 4 of them. If you don't believe the Bible is a holy book, as I don't, then you may consider its writers to be speaking in metaphor, as I do. So maybe the Resurrection is a metaphor for reincarnation.Even the Roman Catholic Church considers Buddha an important religious figure, why do the two have to be in conflict?Just no need for the hating, that was the point of my comment.
brain2000Dec 31, 2006
Jesus never made reference to reincarnation. He was resurrected and showed the holes in his hands to his disciples. Unless those holes in his hands followed him through his reincarnation. Perhaps more carries over from the past life than we initially realized. Hey, we should check that kid who lived twice, maybe... just maybe, he still has sand in his hair from the beach!