Top posting. No comments at bottom: Both Jews AND Christians expoused a belief in reincarnation at some point.
Some Jews still do. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <buttsplicer@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson" > > > > <nelsonriddle2001@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > In fact, other than Nelson's brief comment, it would > > appear that the only person treating others with a > > lack of respect has been Stu, e.g.: > > > > "...you have a purely irrational belief on past lives, > > probably due to indoctrination of this concept by new > > age literature." > > > > Nelson's comment was in response to the above. > > Judy, I provided articles that described numerous experiments that > suggest strongly that the concept of reincarnation is cultural with > strong proclivities to believe in Life after Death based on brain > structure. > > Here is another one: "The Natural Emergence of Reasoning about the > Afterlife as a Developmental Regularity. Bering, Developmental > Psychology, Vol 40, page 217-233, 2004. > > If Nelson did not learn about the concept of reincarnation from New Age > philosophy (I include TMO in this), where did he learn it? > > Do you think that if he was not exposed to this mythology he would still > have adopted it? > > Have you ever heard of say, a 12th century monk, who after years of > prayer and internal investigation came to the conclusion that the Church > was dead wrong about Heaven and Hell and adopted the trappings of the > perennial religion? If the reincarnation myth were true wouldn't all > xtian monks at sometime experience a sever crisis of faith? > > Wouldn't Jesus have preached about our inevitable movement into the next > life if the reincarnation story is so absolutely correct? > > Or was he misguided about all that Day of Judgment stuff? > > Or was he acting on his strong predilection for the mind to believe in > what psychologists call "Person Permanence". > > s. >
