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   XPost: alt.religion.afterlife   
   From: @bleBaker.uk   
      
   "David Dalton"  wrote in message   
   news:dalton-43CB6B.02085222052013@mx05.eternal-september.org...   
   > In article <15fed2f2-08dc-4484-805e-b13dbc6006a7@googlegroups.com>,   
   > Will Dockery  wrote on alt.pagan :   
   >   
   >> No offense intended but this "History repeats itself until the lesson is   
   >> learned" concept always reminds me so clearly of a reincarnation   
   >> discussion   
   >> with a hippe Buddhist type friend of a couple years back. I had noticed   
   >> that   
   >> one of the big deals of re-incarnation was that once a person lives a   
   >> perfect   
   >> life, he/she goes to Nirvana and never returns. So I said I'd have to   
   >> keep   
   >> making mistakes because I like it HERE! This old world may not be   
   >> perfect,   
   >> but there's a slight chance it may be all we have.   
   >   
   > I have a theory of afterlife and beyond afterlife.  There can   
   > be reincarnation from the afterlife but not from the beyond   
   > afterlife.   The afterlife then can be considered similar to   
   > Christian purgatory or Hindu or Buddhist afterlife and   
   > the beyond afterlife can be considered similar to the   
   > Christian heaven and Buddhist nirvana.   But I also think   
   > that in the beyond afterlife it might be possible to   
   > try out various "virtual" realities.   
   >   
   > (I have added the groups alt.paranormal, alt.paranormal.reincarnation,   
   > alt.religion.afterlife, talk.religion.newage to this followup   
   > to WIll Dockery's post to alt.pagan .)   
      
   Interesting notion that, certainly one way of fitting the conflicting   
   versions together.  Incidentally, I hear it said from time to time that the   
   idea of reincarnation was taken quite seriously in the early Christian   
   church, and that it was really only abandoned for political reasons i.e. the   
   faction who didn't believe in reincarnation came out on top of the heap!  I   
   can't remember how reliable a source that came from, though.   
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   A. B.   
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