Does anyone here believe that there might be such a thing as non-linear reincarnation?
What I mean by this is, you are not merely reborn in a time after your current life expires; you could be reborn, consciously, at any point in history. And, it’s not simply being reborn as another living organism, either; like some of the old Hindu beliefs (or was it pre-Hindu?), depending on what kind of person you are, you could even be reborn as an inanimate object, like your consciousness awakening inside a rock, and you remain trapped there until the rock is somehow destroyed over time.
Suppose something like that could happen; imagine a person who is awful in life dies while walking past a building under construction and a brick falls and kills them, and they are reborn, not after their death, but some point in the past from their previous life. They’re reborn as a puddle of mud after a rare rain in a desert, and they are conscious of where they are but cannot move or speak, and under the hot sun they are baked down into clay, and that clay is eventually scooped up and is used to fashion a brick that is set into the wall of a building, and time goes on, decades go by, assaulted by the sounds of the city but unable to do anything except exist, and that existence finally comes to an end one day as the building they are set in is being worked on and they fall, and end up hitting their past/future human selves in the head, killing the human body and shattering the brick, closing the loop and finishing serving their punishment for worldly wrongs.
Think something like that could be what happens next? You come back as the thing that killed the original you?
What if you die in a really embarrassing way? Like someone cuts your dick off and shoves it in your throat? Would you just come back as someone’s dick?
These are the questions of the modern day philosopher
Back to the real questions, who or what is a “Kim Bo Kastekniv”? For the uneducated of you: if you name your profile in Codename 47 so, you can access all Missions without beating them.
But what does it mean? @Norseman is that some obscure danish Reference?
Kim and Bo are male names. Both are first names, but Bo can also be used for a middle name. Kastekniv means throwing knife. Kim Bo Throwing knife. It’s just gibberish, unless it’s some old obscure reference I’m not aware of.
I think that’s a cool idea. And would make sense, especially if the soul does not experience linear time like the body does. So it would stand to reason, that if the whole point of living various human lives would be to learn as much as possible, then moving around freely in time and space would be logical.
I don’t believe in reincarnation (or much of anything else, frankly) but I can see the future sometimes. It’s never been anything useful, but I know that I’ve dreamed things that happened later. It’s not deja vu. It’s not just remembering something similar. I’ve dreamed specific events that happened later (up to a year later). I keep waiting to dream lottery numbers or stock tips… so far no luck though.
First off, no. And if that answers your question then I suppose you can stop reading here.
Why just a brick or rock?
Why not a grain of sand, or a whole desert? A molecule of water, or the ocean? Let’s say you’re a toy, a doll with red hair and overalls.
I’m open to the idea. But I’d think it’s a transfer or rebirth as a human, not so much a rebirth as a chihuahua or lion… Or ant or lobster. Even though they have senses that experience their reality - I’m less open to the idea of going to lower or higher life forms.
What would be the purpose? I suppose it could be… Like you live in the present day, die, then your consciousness returns to this physical realm and you’re born as an impoverished disabled person in the early 1800s, or maybe you’re reborn and grow up to be a soldier that commits war crimes as a form of revenge for the horrible things (the enemy) did to your friends/family and comrades.
So who’s to say you wouldn’t reincarnate as that same enemy?
What’s it all worth? To learn or experience so many different lifetimes and human conditions?
I mean, if that is what happens. Not saying it is or isn’t. There’s really no way to know (outside some transcendental life-changing experience - probably induced by psychedelics or other illicit substances, or maybe a Near Death Experience).
I think for your consciousness to be “in” something - it needs not only sensory organs to receive information about their surroundings but also a degree of conscience. And with a conscience comes a sense of morality.
There’s an aspect of consciousness that delves into or asks what it is that perceives everything you experience. It’s not so much that you realize that you merely exist… That part is your body, your person, and who you identify as… What your labels are. So, what is it that is witnessing everything that is you?
You’d need to get to the place where you can ask yourself; “Who Am I?” And when you realize that John Doe in Anytown USA isn’t the right answer - you’re on the right path.
Well, the idea of any kind of afterlife or spiritual existence is that there is a deity of some kind who determines what happens to a human soul once their body dies. Presumably such a being exists beyond time, and so could determine when and what and how a soul ends up as it does, for punishment or reward.
buddhism is pretty popular and that doesn’t have a deity. jainism too. in fact, i’m pretty sure the other dharmic religions are pretty agnostic towards gods; take em or leave em type deal.
what i’m getting at is, it’s not necessary to believe in god(s) to believe in an after-life or spiritual existence, but it’s just as pointless.
no offence anyone!
yikes.
i wonder what you’d come back as if you die of dehydration, asphyxiation or hunger, given thet’re an absence of something. do you come back as a hole?!
what about a fall, do you come back as the ground?
ohmygod what about a heart attack? will i come back as a heart or cholesterol? IS THE CHOLESTEROL PLUGGING UP MY VEINS RIGHT NOW THE SCREAMING SOULS OF HEART ATTACK VICTIMS PAST?! IS MY HEART A PERSON?!
