From: suzych@swcp.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Alistair@nothere.com wrote:   
      
   > >> Considering the randomness of it all, I'm glad that I don't   
   > >> believe in reincarnation either.   
   > >   
   > >Ah -- but it's not random.  I have chosen and will choose, so says the   
   > >version of reincarnation that make sense to me, lives that I hope will   
   > >bring me life-lessons that I still need to learn.  Sometimes it works,   
   > >sometimes not (and then I have to line up another life that I hope will   
   > >take me where I wanted to go), since one of the prime lessons of   
   > >incarnate life on the physical plane is the way sheer physicality gets   
   > >in the way and re-directs matters: and the role of chance in fardling up   
   > >the best laid plans -- and the unexpected lessons that come along as a   
   > >result.   
   >   
   > I understand this, but why would wait until "a next life" to go where   
   > you want to go? What if their isn't one. The best solution I can think   
   > of is to go wherever you want now. "Tomorrow is promised to no one."   
      
   Because when where you want to go is on a very long, convoluted journey,   
   you can't always just walk over there this week.  Sometimes it takes a   
   number of lifetimes just to get to the next change of horses, as it   
   were.  And tomorrow may not be promised to *me*, but it always comes to   
   the next version of "me" to pop into the world, and the one after that.   
      
   > >The "agenda" of the universe is to expand until it   
   > >reaches the point at which it reverses, shrinks, implodes -- and then   
   > >Big, er, Bangs itself back out there into another round of expansion.   
   > >Our part in all this is to be the highly conscious bits of "godhood"   
   > >that play out their inter-relations and perceptions among the struts and   
   > >girders of the universe's structure, which takes no account of us at   
   > >all.  Doesn't need to.  WE are the "account takers".   
   >   
   > Yep, kind of a neat role we have...helping the universe be aware of   
   > itself .   
      
   Yep -- us and whatever other self-aware consciousnesses are out there.   
      
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