It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: dothedew
a reply to: Ravenwatcher
If anyone wants "evidence" of reincarnation, do a past life regression session (generally done with a hypnotist, but not always).
Long story short, I had clear as day (what seemed like) memories of being a small child on a playground in a neighborhood playing with other kids. I also was speaking German. I heard noise and looked up just in time to see planes flying overhead, followed by bright lights, screaming, and a lot of heat. I woke up shaking and drenched in sweat.
After a few hours of digging, I found out there was an accidental friendly-fire bombing of a neighborhood somewhere in Austria or Germany (can't remember) during WW2 that killed upwards of 400 of their own citizens - including several dozen young children that were playing on a playground in the middle of the neighborhood.
Prior to then, I had no idea anything like that happened. Rather eye opening. Scared the absolute Hell out of me.
Another session I had, I was in full gear at a night off base (or something to that effect) during what I believe was WW1 based on the uniform, having a beer with a few other infantrymen at a bar. Apparently (if this is all legit) I have a tendency to pop up around war time? It doesn't give me much hope for the current global climate...
originally posted by: Venkuish1
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: Venkuish1
Most importantly there is no evidence to support the reincarnation claims.
Some was already posted. It's easily googled. People who have memories and knowledge that they didn't gather in this life, but when investigated those memories and that knowledge turns out to be true.
You can keep saying over and over 'there is no evidence' .... but that's not true.
Personal experiences are personal experiences and are not proof or evidence of reincarnation. If the bar was so low every single experience can be named as evidence and need no further scrutiny or actual evidence to support whatever claims made.
originally posted by: Venkuish1
originally posted by: AllisVibration
a reply to: Venkuish1
You could look into the cases yourself, but if you’re going to automatically believe all these people are lying, and try to stuff all unexplained phenomena in the same box, then there really isn’t much point. You’re mind is already made up. It doesn’t make you correct about the matter.
Who can explain all the reports of ufo phenomena? Because these things are as yet “unknown” it doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
UFO Phenomena are distinct to reincarnation. You can get plenty of evidence on UFOs and they don't seem to belong to the paranormal world. Videos and photographs exist showing clearly some unidentified flying objects (not something paranormal).
originally posted by: Venkuish1
No it' doesn't as is not a good argument. It shows in my opinion that reincarnation is not even acceptable to those who are religious and believe in the paranormal.
Most importantly there is no evidence to support the reincarnation claims.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: Venkuish1
No it' doesn't as is not a good argument. It shows in my opinion that reincarnation is not even acceptable to those who are religious and believe in the paranormal.
You are derping , by doubling down.
Person X believes in Jehovah but not Zeus, so that proves my point that Vishnu isn't real. WTF?
Most importantly there is no evidence to support the reincarnation claims.
This is where you become pedantic. The truth is nobody knows. You are welcome to your opinion but that is neither here nor there.
Microbes were not discovered/confirmed until the 17th century but that doesn't mean they were not there doing their thing all along.
Whether you realize it or not, you are arguing from ignorance.
Reincarnation is a highly contradictory and controversial philosophical-religious and cultural concept. Belief in reincarnation has some epistemological implications. It is a belief in the absence of valid empirical data. There is no scientific evidence to prove reincarnation. The suggestive cases of reincarnation (past-lives” testimonies) cannot be independently verified, and there are psychological and cultural factors that can influence such claims. These testimonies are the products of social conditioning rather than actual memories of past lives. From a scientific and empirical standpoint, the concept of reincarnation remains unproven and subject to skepticism.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: Venkuish1
No it' doesn't as is not a good argument. It shows in my opinion that reincarnation is not even acceptable to those who are religious and believe in the paranormal.
You are derping , by doubling down.
Person X believes in Jehovah but not Zeus, so that proves my point that Vishnu isn't real. WTF?
Most importantly there is no evidence to support the reincarnation claims.
This is where you become pedantic. The truth is nobody knows. You are welcome to your opinion but that is neither here nor there.
Microbes were not discovered/confirmed until the 17th century but that doesn't mean they were not there doing their thing all along.
Whether you realize it or not, you are arguing from ignorance.
originally posted by: AllisVibration
originally posted by: Venkuish1
originally posted by: AllisVibration
a reply to: Venkuish1
You could look into the cases yourself, but if you’re going to automatically believe all these people are lying, and try to stuff all unexplained phenomena in the same box, then there really isn’t much point. You’re mind is already made up. It doesn’t make you correct about the matter.
Who can explain all the reports of ufo phenomena? Because these things are as yet “unknown” it doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
UFO Phenomena are distinct to reincarnation. You can get plenty of evidence on UFOs and they don't seem to belong to the paranormal world. Videos and photographs exist showing clearly some unidentified flying objects (not something paranormal).
How so? UFO phenomena are breaking the laws of physics as we understand them. Just like the paranormal.
originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
originally posted by: Venkuish1
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: Venkuish1
Most importantly there is no evidence to support the reincarnation claims.
Some was already posted. It's easily googled. People who have memories and knowledge that they didn't gather in this life, but when investigated those memories and that knowledge turns out to be true.
You can keep saying over and over 'there is no evidence' .... but that's not true.
Personal experiences are personal experiences and are not proof or evidence of reincarnation. If the bar was so low every single experience can be named as evidence and need no further scrutiny or actual evidence to support whatever claims made.
Here's your obstacle you only look and learn from your direct surroundings what you are told to believe from those around you in your circle , In order to even start understanding anything you have to bring yourself above the Earth and look at it as a whole and not form an opinion but consider every opinion and discussion , Otherwise you come off arrogant and unable to understand or consider other opinions/theories after all none us actually know but you can understand why groups believe what they believe it's because it was taught kind of a sort of brainwashing by religion or geography.
originally posted by: Base12
Reincarnation is what is actually taught in the Bible...
Nevertheless, we, as Christians, believe that reincarnation runs contrary to our beliefs. After all, why in the world would Jesus Christ die on the cross and resurrect for our sins, if he doomed us to repeat lives here on earth, with no or little inkling of past lives? Even when some religions seek to find Nirvana or Enlightenment, to break the cycle of past lives, none provide a clear path on how to achieve this.
A person has no way of knowing how many lives they have to go or why any deity would doom them to repeat life cycles over and over again.
In this article, we’ll discuss what the Bible has to say about reincarnation. We’ll also discuss the problems with the concept of reincarnation, and ultimately, why this matters.
You can't make an analogue between the UFO phenomenon and reincarnation. There is nothing to independently verify reincarnation and no scientific evidence in support of the claims made.
On the other hand we have evidence for the existence of some unidentified flying objects (photographs and videos)
recordings from civilians and the armed forces measuring speed, acceleration, distance covered, and other physical quantities.
The evidence we have show there are unidentified flying objects and not aliens flying these objects
originally posted by: Venkuish1
The first article I have linked shows that even religious people who accept the paranormal world don't accept reincarnation as it is a far-fetched idea.
reincarnation for which there is no evidence at all.
originally posted by: Venkuish1
Personal experiences are personal experiences and are not proof or evidence of reincarnation. If the bar was so low every single experience can be named as evidence and need no further scrutiny or actual evidence to support whatever claims made.
originally posted by: Mantiss2021
a reply to: dothedew
If you had clear memories of being a German child....
How did you recognize that it was German you were speaking?
Unless the child also spoke English at the time and could differniate between the two languages; which would have been unusual for that time period.
Or, you yourself, also speak German, and were able to simultaneously translate what the child was saying. But wouldn't that have put at one step "removed" from actually being the child to position more along the lines of "observing" the child.
A possibly important distinction when one is considering the possibility of being reincarnated, as opposed to reviewing events seemingly from past existences.
originally posted by: Venkuish1
You can't use the existence of microbes as an analogue to argue about incarnation which is based on personal experiences that are highly subjective.
You may want to revisit the dentition of the argument from ignorance.
An argument from ignorance (Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), or appeal to ignorance ('ignorance' stands for "lack of evidence to the contrary"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It says something is true because it has not yet been proved false. Or, that something is false if it has not yet been proved true.
originally posted by: Venkuish1
I am quite puzzled why posters on this thread and other threads who are Christians argue in favour of reincarnation which goes against their Christian beliefs
but most importantly there is no evidence to support reincarnation.