nothingness, rebirth, some other 'place'?  Or do we just basically exist in our own life, reliving instances of time over and over?
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you just decompose back into nothingness, like really bad ham
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This is not so hard to think about, but it's kinda hard to answer.  I'm talking here about the Unknown with a capital letter which can also refer to God, any god of any religion, or just what we humans don't know about the universe.  I have figured this one thing out, at least, for my own life.  It seems there are only three things we do in life.  At least, after 57 years of my existence, it seems like that.  We are born, we learn, and we die.  I am doing the first two, and have yet to experience the last one.  \n\nNow, let's think about the order of those things.  Can we change the order, or do they come in this order only, and then notice the word "order".  What about chaos?  Isn't that part of nature too, or is order out of order?  Yeah, the chaos may be the context within which I must learn.  Every time I run into a contradiction to the truth/s I have been believing, I must change my thinking about the nature and the substance of T/truth/s I encounter in their contradiction of one another.  But, think about this:  I am experiencing This/these T/truth/s while I am experiencing this chaos, so where's the order that the t/truth/s is/are supposed to bring out of chaos?  Then, again, maybe we don't experience all this at the same time?  Uh oh!?  The word "time"; I forgot about time.  Can we actually do things, experience things as the same time, change the order of things?  Can I actually walk and chew gum at the same time?  Or, must I take a step and chew- take a step and chew. . . -take a step and . . . .  hummm!? maybe there is no such thing as simultaneity?  because there is no such thing as time, except as time, it is the same thing as the space we take up thinking about it.  This really is the kicker, it seems to me:  Quantum physicists and the new physics tell/s us that time and space are the same thing, if I am not mistaken, and that we should really only be thinking about probabilities instead of T/truth.  What I'm saying here is that there is no such thing as Truth in our reality, on our planet, in this galaxy, in this universe, according to everything we humans know about it.  There may be some probability that there is/are T/truth/s beyond our reality, etcetera., which, upon my death, I may experience, but maybe not.?!  Perhaps that brings us to the question of order again.  Are we here to create order or to experience it through chaos by learning the difference between them?  Then there is the issue of why not chaos.  The implication is that order is better than chaos, or that there is some preference I should have, one over the other.  But, it seems to me that both are needed as functions of the other (at the least), or as functions of the learning process itself, which, remember, is the middle and biggest (in terms of which one of which we do the most.) of the three things we do in life.  Each of the three things we do in life is equally important b/c we can't have one without the others, just like chaos and order (can't have one without the other).  I feel like I'm chasing my tail here.\n\nHmmm.  Maybe we are here existing on this planet, in this galaxy, in this universe because we continue to exist (your words, your ideas).  Or, maybe we're doing all these things you say we are doing because we are learning to think about them while we won't know the reason for it until we take the final of the three steps.  We are just compelled by the Unknown to do it on f/Faith.  \n\nThe multiverses/Existence/Reality is such an interesting phenomenon, isn't it!\n\nThanks for the opportunity to ponder on it.\n\nutopianwizard
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There is not a past life.  It has past.  But there was one once.
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The one we assume is 'now', but actually took place before now and it takes awhile for us to 'catch up'....science has already established that our brains are programmed with a delayed reaction anyway.   I think deja vu is due to either reincarnation, or the fact that time is not linear. mail me if you ever want to talk about it...time is one of my favorite subjects in the world, and greatest dilemmas!
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i don't know what to say about reincarnation....I'm not sure if i believe or not
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Maybe it use to be shaped like a diamond, and maybe we did just put so much thought and energy into it being round that it became that way. Maybe we are not even living on the world that we think we are living on. Maybe we are all just part of some big atmospheric mind of some sort. Maybe we really are nothing but a dream, who knows.
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Omg...ur such a tease. What about life and death and I no I haven't died and came back before but I would like to know what the hell you saw. Life is confusing and sometimes I don't even know why we exist if we're gonna get killed off in the end. It sucks if you ask me.
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I believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is basically a system like weather. When plants die in the fall/winter they are renewed, or reborn in the spring/summer. Many people (including me) believe in karma, and that it affects what your future life will be like... For example, if you were a murderer in this life, in the next life you may not be as happy. If you were like Ghandi in this life, you would be very rich in spirit in the next life. It's complicated, but there is evidence for it. Google it.
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You know - this is a lot like whisper down the lane.  Let's stop for a minute and think about this stuff rationally.\n\nFrom where I am sitting, I have found that there is no devil beyond our own worst emotions - and there is no hell beyond being steeped in our own worst emotions.  As far as I can see, we humans are running the show - but more like a bunch of college students on our own independent course of study.  We come, we learn, we go - we very likely come back again.\n\nSome deaths are tragic - and some have far reaching implications like nothing else in this world.  Some deaths are welcome - there comes a time when the journey is over, don't you think?\n\nGod is a little easier to understand if you think of it as the energy that powers this existence more than some old guy in the sky using us like Barbie dolls.  We all come here of our own choosing to learn something specific, not to be coddled and live in a paradise and do nothing.  It's meant to be a challenge.\n\nPeace!
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There definitely is something... what it is I am not exactly sure but, it is much more than anyone here can ever know. I have read a lot on this..and somethings have me think...maybe there is a better life after we die.... I am skeptical on quite a few things. I do however believe this physic Sylvia Browne.. You should watch and listen to things she says.. it is amazing.. She appears on Montel every Wednesday. Is there a "GOD"? That is not so believable from where I sit but, again, that is not been proven to me as of yet. LL.
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Maybe it'll happen again tonight :-)  Past Life?, no way..  Sounds like you've been watching lots of movies and having fantasies, and your brain put it all together for you last night!
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Our understanding of the afterlife is so very limited.  I think the common threads throughout many of the religions points to a similar outcome that is probably independant of spiritual flavour.  Our personal spiritual tradition gives us a way of comprehending an incomprehensible concept.
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I am going to put a slightly spin on this question. I DO believe that there are parallel universes. There are at least as many universes as there are people and possibly as many universes as there are living things. We each experience a different universe, but they all exist at the same time. Our "Universe" is what we experience (see, hear, smell, taste, feel, and any other undocumented sense). THAT is where parallel universes come into their own, and THAT is where relativity comes into play. My universe starts with me where I am and ends "out there somewhere". I will never get to experience the end, because wherever I am will always be the start of my universe.
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Everything the Soul experiences is not forgotten. So our past lives are like these fragments of the Soul that are separate from each other. When we regress or remember a past life, you are dipping into that Soul's memory.\n\nThere are people who are channellers channelling higher beings that speak other languages that the channeller themselves do not know. I know one lady that channels in Sanskrit and she herself does not know it. \n\nThere is an Ocean of Concsiousness that we can tap into; we are but just a drop of that Ocean. The separation is just an illusion. We can receive anything through ourselves within: Knowledge, Love, Wisdom, Creativity, Languages, etc.
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YEAH, AT TIMES I FEEL LIKE I LIVE IN MY OWN WORLD SORROUNDED BY CLONES OF MYSELF...IM QUITE A THINKER YOU KNOW! VERY QURIOUS ABOUT GOD'S CREATIONS, AT TIMES I'D ASK MYSELF IS IT CRAZY TO QUESTION SOME OF THE STUFF AROUND...I THINK IM LOOSING IT NOW...
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I believe we have one life on earth (no reincarnation) followed ultimately by the judgment after which we receive eternal life with God (sometimes called heaven) or separation from God (i.e., the negative afterlife, sometimes called hell).\n\nFor those who enter the positive afterlife, I think we will continue to grow and progress.\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org
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I like to think that you can still interact with other souls in the afterlife, if there is one... but I also wonder if our souls are just energy, and we just dissipate into nothingness when we die... but that can't be true, right? Otherwise this life would make no sense.