If you were to be reincarnated, what would you choose?
If you believed in reincarnation, had a choice of said “after life”, what would you choose?
I ponder this question often. I tend to think there’s nothing, after death, but my heart says something else. Seeing loved ones, in heaven? Nice thought, but how does that work? Are there little coffee tables set up on clouds, where we chat? *sigh*...
Reincarnation seems most plausible, to me, given the other “choices”. At first, I did the math. Figure, we had about a billion people, about 150 years ago, and 7 billion, today. If we are reincarnated as another human, on earth, where did those extra 6 billion souls come from? Waiting period? Another “Goldielocks” planet, where there’s also humans? Or...we come back as a different life form, right back on good ‘ol earth.
If that’s the case, I’d like to return as a macaw, in their natural environment. The average life span is 80 years. There’s lots to eat and have no *natural* predators...except humans, love “intimacy”, not just for procreation, and mate for life. Their life, in the jungle, seems like a very harmonious society.
At first, I thought killer whale, or great white shark, but they are still hunted too much.
So...what, or who would you choose... if given the opportunity?
Guility- I'll be the tree for you to live out your life. I always said if there is reincarnation I wanted to come back as a tree. To me trees are the most beautiful creation, they give us so much of what we need and a species. If I, as a tree, were to be your home, the likely hood of being cut down is slim. I would give you shelter, exercise, water, food, the list is endless. Yup- I want to come back as a tree.
A very sensitive subject but since it has become a thread on HL...I actually have always felt that I have lived other lives other than the one I find myself in at the moment. Some of which have been a Sailor in the US Navy who met his demise by drowning on his ship...a woman holding a small naked child in her arms going into the gas chambers during the Halocaust and a Confederate soldier hiding from the enemy under the floor of a farmhouse..and more... After this life, I really would like to be reincarnated as someone with a happy life...Maybe a Beautiful Princess, pampered and living out her life without a care in the world..
Hmm..interesting, thought provoking and funny answers. Thanks guys and gals!
Everyone alive has been reincarnated as a human..The XX and XY DNA combines and sort of downloads itself into a new being at conception and that blueprint builds a new human including all ancestral memories(instincts etc) and probably even consciousness.
Your brains sorts it out for duplicates and arranges it in an orderly manner. It a way it is defragmented usually while you're asleep.
Consciousness is a sense where you know that you are alive and all of your forebears are in effect still alive in you as you will still be alive in your offspring.
As long as you reproduce you will not suffer a loss of consciousness(death)
i guess maybe an accountant who hid money or cheated on taxes? that way i could help the other inmates and guards so they liked me? oh, wait a minute, you said reincarnated, i thought it said reincarcerated. never mind.
May '19
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I get what Swami Rutola is saying and in essence I've been saying something similar for years. If you have children, they are essentially the continuation of both you and your spouse. A part of you follows on through them when you pass. I think that's the ultimate truth of Buddhism and some other religions. As long as your family line reproduces, you carry those who came before you in your very essence, your DNA, the structure that is the building block for the next line.
Did you ever wonder why you had leanings towards certain occupations or interests, then later find out that one of your Grandparents or Great-Grandparents followed that particular occupation? People may actually be genetically predisposed towards certain occupations, etc. because their forebears long, long ago found that their body structure, disposition and mental abilities gave them a feel or an inner talent for those occupations.
You never truly die until you pass away having left no descendants. Most of those you carry with you die as well, unless you have siblings.
That's depressing as hell. No kids so when I'm dead I'm dead. So God made me baron, and for that gift I get to die and be DEAD!!. I wonder how big that group is?? Can I still come back as a tree??? After all a tree isn't human, although it is a life. Oh well, I lose. Do me a favor friends while I'm DEAD, plant a tree in my memory. Thanks!!
Don't come back as a bird or a cute bunny. Some evil human will cage you instead of letting you be free!
Does that mean I’ve been “born again”? NOOOoooo.....
ken e...good one! LOL...
Just don’t say happy “afterbirthday”.....yuck!
@auntiel
Have no fear. Donate your body parts so that they are transplanted into another person(s)
You've probably heard of cases where someone is given a liver for example and they take on some of the characteristics of the donor although they have never met.
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