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Post by dgan on Feb 21, 2006 7:22:53 GMT -5
That's fine. Consider it as being a soul unbound by time. We assume because the body dies, the soul is separated from earth at that moment and passes on to eternal life, in whichever place it belongs. But you could consider these individuals that "came back" as souls that left their body and immediately reappeared in a different body at a different point in time. Just as a prayer can be answered before it has been prayed, the soul is not bound by time.
It doesn't have to be a spiritual reincarnation, in the way you would define it in Hinduism.
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Post by dinadan on Feb 21, 2006 15:54:43 GMT -5
Argue all you want, I'm not going to call it reincarnation as people consider it these days. Not that it really matters. Arguing that you haven't experienced reincarnation so you can't talk about it is like saying you haven't experienced death so you can't talk about it. There's a big difference in talking metaphysics and not having an opinion on plum pudding because you've never tried it. Keep in mind that I never once suggested and James et all were reincarnated via the means of Hinduism-lite that is prevalent in modern pop culture. I should've said upfront that I'm not comfortable with the term, but I don't know of another one that has either the denotation or connotation to deal with what we're talking about here. I sort of like dgan's "souls as unbound by time" approach, though, and am already thinking about the philosophic implications of his examples (more on that later, maybe). At the moment, the point just seems to me to be that I don't understand how you could explain James, Cal, Rhys, Jennifer, and the rest while claiming that they are all, in effect, new people. Sure, the experiences they lived in this lifetime have shaped them somewhat differently, but their cores remain the same. They are more like variations on a theme than new songs all together. |
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Post by Gwalchmai on Feb 21, 2006 16:55:26 GMT -5
Gwalchmai! Don't forget he's in there too!  |
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Post by dinadan on Feb 21, 2006 17:17:31 GMT -5
Gwalchmai! Don't forget he's in there too! Certainly wouldn't want to forget the Hawk. |
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Post by Gwalchmai on Feb 21, 2006 18:53:32 GMT -5
Hey thats not too bad, from now on just call me Hawk... The Hawk  I take a Mountain Dew, bottled, not canned. |
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