From: suzych@swcp.com   
      
   In article <20040513000149.13517.00000451@mb-m06.aol.com>,   
   geddiea95@aol.com (G EddieA95) wrote:   
      
   > >Lives almost taste like movies to a soul. No matter how great any one   
   > >movie is, you want it to end sometime, so you can go on to the next   
   > >story.   
   >   
   > If I had any reason to believe in reincarnation, I would hate, curse and   
   > fight   
   > a "deity" that would create such a thing.  Hell and Purgatory are IMO far   
   > more merciful, at least you keep your mind.   
      
   It does have its downside, IMO, and frankly in view of everything I'm   
   reading about the future, near and far, I'm not at all crazy about the   
   idea of having to keep coming back here.  The one old soul that I know,   
   a guy who knows that he's doing his last time around, says he's walking   
   very very carefully and keeping a low profile, to avoid stirring up   
   any karmic messes that would drag him back here AGAIN.   
      
   > I am very curious why so many on this web accept reincarnation as  a   
   > "given."   
      
   Can't speak for anyone else, but I accept it because it makes more sense   
   than anything else I've come across; so when I found a person who seems   
   to be able to confirm (or correct) insights about this, I was inclined   
   to take this as evidence, not proof.  Personally, I don't need the idea   
   of a "deity" to explain it, since my understanding is that we, all of   
   us and all the other stuff in the universe, are the Dao, manifested   
   out here and finding its way back together.   
      
   There is no proof that I know of that would convince a person who finds   
   the idea absurd or repulsive.  Stay with what makes sense to you, that's   
   my thought about this.   
      
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