if carbon is all what we are, how come you are able to articulate your thoughts, and typing them down.

its a mixture of things oxygen,magnesium,carbon,iron,hydrogen.all the molecules build up to form a structure and then evolution takes it from there.buy the way i meant most thing are made from carbon not just us,actually humans are more oxygen.i just reread what i typed in my post before.

You speak only of the human body and what it is made of. Do you then lack belief the spiritual essence of life forms?

What then is behind the manifestation, information and perpetuation of life, thought and consciousness?

No and this is why......If you have to reincarnate because you didn't learn your lessons the first time....And you have to reincarnate into something more then you were in a previous life...What exactly would a human being reincarnated into. If we are at the top of the food chain or whatever you want to call it. Now if I was an eagle in another life...Would also not my lessons be different then if I reincarnated into another creature. And what exactly creature was I before I was human?

Nope makes not to much sense to me.

Well sure it does - you were a belly dancer in your previous life - now you moved up to stripper, who knows what kind of dancer you'll be in the next??

The thing is with reincarnation, you do not always move forward in the "food chain," you can move back as well. As a simple example, if you murder someone in this life and are reincarnated, you could come back and become a victim of a violent crime.

There are varying degrees of "humanness" so to speak. You may learn one life lesson, but fail miserably at another. Therefore, you would come back still as a human, but perhaps better positioned to learn that new lesson.

Does that make sense? And I'm not asking anyone of they've changed their mind on reincarnation, just trying to give a little more nuance to the discussion

It doesn't make sense to me unless you came back knowing what you had done wrong so you could fix it. otherwise how would you know what lesson it was you had to learn? to return because of bad choices that you are no longer aware of in the present life does nothing to help you escape this present situation - if the idea behind it is to escape having to return over and over - what good is it to do so if you can't remeber from the previous life what you had done wrong? seems stupid to me.

Your soul knows, is the best I can explain it. Your experiences, both good and bad, are imprinted on your soul. If you strive to be the best person you can be, under all circumstances, then eventually your soul will be free from a worldly existence for eternity. If you listen to your soul, it will tell you what you need to know.

BTW, I don't call your beliefs stupid, please give me the same respect

i apologize S, i will discontinue my lady - i have no interest in discussing forther.

I believe in the Buddhist idea of reincarnation, that each soul is born again brand new, yet with a subtle imprint of past experiences branded on it. And I believe that you will keep being reborn until you get it right. So many people don't trust their instincts when it comes to making choices in their lives, I believe that these instincts, feelings, gut reactions, whatever you want to call it, are just your past experiences making themselves known. I believe you are not supposed to correct mistakes from past existences but learn from them and grow as a soul. And once this fully happens, you will be absorbed into the Wheel of Life to exist there for all eternity.

And, I believe in soul mates. I think we sometimes run across people in our lives that our souls recognize, whether in a positive or negative way. They can come in many guises, and there is just not the "one."

i dont believe we comeback or go to a better or worse place,when we die i believe its eternal sleep.we are mostly made up of carbon so where does carbon go when it dies?

i believe we have no spirits in our body. its a mass of organic and biomolecules.

YES, isn't it funny how sometimes you meet someone you feel like you have known for years.

No and this is why......If you have to reincarnate because you didn't learn your lessons the first time....And you have to reincarnate into something more then you were in a previous life...What exactly would a human being reincarnated into. If we are at the top of the food chain or whatever you want to call it. Now if I was an eagle in another life...Would also not my lessons be different then if I reincarnated into another creature. And what exactly creature was I before I was human?

Nope makes not to much sense to me.

Your soul knows, is the best I can explain it. Your experiences, both good and bad, are imprinted on your soul. If you strive to be the best person you can be, under all circumstances, then eventually your soul will be free from a worldly existence for eternity. If you listen to your soul, it will tell you what you need to know.

You don't "have" to reincarnate. The journey of incarnations is a choice made by your infinite spirit for the purpose of the adventure.

You don't have to reincarnate into something "more" either. We spend many times as human doing many things learning many things. The primary thing we learn is love and compassion for our fellow beings while we gain experience in the creative process of the expanding universe.

Life is infinite. That means it never ever ends. That means there are infinite things to do and learn and be and create. Infinite worlds to explore and experience. Its not just live one life and die and either go to heaven or hell. How droll and pointless that would be.

Incarnation makes perfect sense to me. We all do it whether we know or remember we are doing it or not. That is my belief.

If reincarnation is a way for souls to gather information, to learn lessons, to work out mistakes in life, then what does the soul do with this information?

What purpose does it serve. In what way has this information medium developed?