Today's discussion question

[David Morris]

I would like to see a math model of just the human accounting on how the
present exploding population works with retreaded souls as a ratio of new
to old.  There must be a huge source of new human souls yet to go
spinning on this Merry-Go-Round.

On Thursday, August 15, 2013, Bekah wrote:

> If reincarnation is true there are a whole lot of dead people waiting for
> another shot at life - either that or they've come back as cockroaches -
>  in which case I suspect we have extra lives coming from somewhere.
>
> I just don't see how the accounting works out.
>
>
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead
>
> Bek
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>
>
> On Aug 15, 2013, at 3:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > The concept of reincarnation long predates the advent of Buddhism in
> India.
> >
> > I don't find it useful, since access to lessons learned in a previous
> lives isn't common nor plausible when through hypnosis people recall being
> Napoleon or Cleopatra. If there is a kernel of truth in the concept of
> reincarnation it seems to me useful as a way to understand inherent
> knowledge, instincts, in every living being, passed on via eons of
> evolution. Collective Conciousness?
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, August 15, 2013, wrote:
> > It's not remotely plausible.  Where would you suggest this "knowledge"
> comes from?
> > The idea that the Tibetans
> > know something in regard to reincarnation that we don't seems perfectly
> > plausible.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <javascript:;>>
> > To: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:;>>
> > Sent: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 11:16 am
> > Subject: Re: Today's discussion question
> >
> > Unless it is true. This idea has been around for a long time and has had
> some
> > non bubble headed proponents who may perceive things unseen by a certain
> kind of
> > logic. I am agnostic on all questions that seek to definitively describe
> other
> > dimensions of experience, but some of my own experiences have kept me
> from
> > closing the door on this and I do not find that leaving the question open
> > induces any more bubble headedness than watching TV. The idea that the
> Tibetans
> > know something in regard to reincarnation that we don't seems perfectly
> > plausible.
> > On Aug 14, 2013, at 6:18 PM, David Morris wrote:
> >
> > > But you're right about my attitudes; the idea that the DL is a
> reincarnated
> > spirit is as bubble-headed as any other religious myth.
> >
> >
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