Reincarnation: Do you spend a third of eternity dead?

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   Ack Taneposted 10 years ago

   People who believe in reincarnation often speak metaphorically of life as awake and death as asleep. So if you spend a third of your life asleep do you spend a third of eternity dead?

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      Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Oh wow... you're the perfect example of what I was trying to share with Matthew... you came straight here and started this thread? Not one other activity? And you have a 72 score... I have to say... it hurts a little more every time.

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      wildernessposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      one third (or one fourth or one thousandth) of eternity is still eternity.  Time without end.
      
      So yes, I guess you could say that.

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         psycheskinnerposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         I don't think so because believing in reincarnation does not imply believe every soul was created in the beginning and endures in the reincarnation cycle until the end.  Or that the world has been in eternal existence.

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            Kathryn L Hillposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            God would have to start the next Big Bang, if every last soul was not united with Him by then.
            However long it takes.

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               psycheskinnerposted 10 years agoin reply to this

               In fact even suggesting things started with a big bang means this world is not eternal and so not proportion of time within it can be eternal.

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                  wildernessposted 10 years agoin reply to this

                  Why?  I don't see the concept of an endless future implying an endless past...the big bang does not imply there is an end to time, and time without end is eternity.

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   Zelkiiroposted 10 years ago

   Just adjust your sleep schedule to coincide with the Heat Death of the Universe and wake up just in time for the next Big Bang.

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      Kathryn L Hillposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      And when will the Heat Death occur?  With the death of our star?

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         wildernessposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         When time ends, silly, and all collapses into a black hole.  Billions and billions of years (trillions) past the end of our star.

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            Kathryn L Hillposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            ... Online Dictionary says it is a "state of uniform distribution of energy" and is a "possible fate of the universe." Does this refer to a black hole... or are you surmising?

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 10 years ago

   Well, we come back to earth about every 400 to 500 years. So, most of us were probably here during the 14 or 1500's. What happened to us in-between? Good question. I don't remember at all. Darn it.
   
      But I would say one's after-life depends on one's spiritual evolution. Some sleep only to wake up restlessly from time to time. Some enter into great halls of learning exploring concepts and ideas. Some hang out and compose music with other musician-souls. Some create beauty in the astral realms of light and color. Some become formless and become one with the ocean of Bliss.
   Maybe.

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      A Troubled Manposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      And, you got that information from where?

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         I would reveal my sources if there wasn't so much trashing in the cyber world.

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            A Troubled Manposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            Ah, so you just made it up. Gotcha.

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   Undauntedposted 10 years ago

   Did you really live the life of another being that is why you believe it?  Did your consciousness exist even before you were born?  If not, then reincarnation is merely another made up answer to the unknown - what will happen to our consciousness (our soul) when we die.

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