your soul knows?

if we are all born infants what at birth does my soul know? i watched my kids grow up , and now my grand-kids, i see them do things from early on 6 months or so hit there peers with things sit on each other, take toys from each other, hit each other, make each other cry over something - if theses are things that produce "bad Karma" then how will anyone ever escape the cycle of rebirth? if karma's is doing anything not good - how will anyone ever reach nirvana?
some Buddhist think bad karma exist or comes about if you step on a bug? so you have to be reborn and reach an age where you can comprehend what you might have already done before you can live the rest of your life not trying to do so again? well by then its to late!! you've already done things - so to bad, one more time around for you ad nauseaum, it would never end it makes it an infinite proposition!!

it actually makes it sound worse than religions.

no, but i wouldnt mind coming back as a womans bicycle seat

better be more specific or you could be sadly dissapointed - you may come back as an old worn out seat rotting away in the dump.

that just ruined it for me...lol

I agree that the concept of having to learn within each lifetime in order to "progress", does not make a whole lot of sense. The two main questions I would have about it are:

Why did it start?

Who decides when it ends?

But then, those are really just the classic "Where did we come from?" and "Where are we going?" questions.

We don't "have" to do anything except what we want to do. We enter the incarnation state according to what we presently know and want to experience.

My answers to your questions:

Why did it start?

Manifestation occurs because the awareness of being (Prime Source) desires to be apparent. It is a desire to be known, to exist, to be.

(To be or not to be, that is the question.)

(The first and absolute law of Prime Source is to exist.)

It decides when it ends. When the dream ceases and all is brought back to the place of infinity or no-thing it is at rest. Then it begins again.

I think if I had to say I THOUGHT of past lives I do, as a writer this is a very important thing for good historic writing, however, if I had to say what one person said my name was and what I was in another life, well, I was a painters apprentice and my name was Bertha, LOL hahaha, and he siad I was sickly and I was a terrible apprentice. giggles

I don't but I did in my past life.

well you sure picked a great body to inhabit this time around!!

I thought you were a robot in this life.

Yes, I believe in reincarnation.

Change is the one constance in this universe. We are all made of the same stuff and this stuff (matter and energy) is in a constant state of change. This is what i call a universal absolute so is reincarnation possible. With the above said i would have to conclude that even though one's ego or conciousness may not survive their matter and energy transform and continue on in another form or state. One could even conclude that through procreation this matter and energy is reincarnated through our genetic code. So yes i feel secure saying that i can believe in it.

sure

anything is possible

I don't... what? like there's not enough souls to go around or something...

That's very limiting, considering we have infinity to deal with.

I assure you, they are fighting to get on this earth.

Consider yourself lucky.

Well...we all know what opinions are like and we know that everyone has one. The only thing you're assuring me of is that particular fact.
Thank you because I DO consider myself lucky. Lucky to have a mind which is capable of critical thought.
Also, I'm of the mind-set that the only real thing we have to "deal with" is the here and now.

The concept of reincarnation is a fundamental part of classical Hindu and Buddhist thought, and also became widespread in ancient Greek philosophy. This view was also taught by a few of the early Christian thinkers, especially Origen (about 240 AD).

Reincatrnation was discussed by Gregory of Nyssa (a church leader of about 380 AD), who gave the reasons why to reject reincarnation as:

1. That we have no memory of any previous life.

2. That a baby starts without knowledge of people, language or the world, and has to learn everything from zero. It has no knowledge or memory of having ever been through this life before.

3. That a child's knowledge and wisdom grows as the body grows.

4. That to suggest that God's future for us is more cycles of the same life, forgetting the previous cycle, does not give us hope but despair.

Just as the child's body derived from the parents, so also in some way the child's mind and life is generated by those of the parents. The soul has not been anywhere else before it was made with the body.

It seems to me that these reasons are as valid now as they were then.

No I don't, and I didn't in my previous lives, either.......

your to cute for your own good Mr.

What makes you think I was joking, Mistress Debbie?