Past Lives

When you talk about how a person's experience contribute to their character: yes they do, but I was talking about biological traits not traits acquired from their environment. I'm not sure if I support your theory that there are enough combinations to 'accommodate everyone who's ever lived', we're talking trillions and trillions of people and I still think surely thats impossible?
I like to believe that we get reused and get given another chance at life, it's a bit depressing to think we just disappear into nothingness.

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What an interesting idea! I'd always hear that birthmarks were 'Angle Kisses' e.g. where an angle kissed you as a baby.

If it was how I died in a past life, I would really like to know how my right ring finger led to my ultimate demise....

I don't particularly believe in reincarnation, but there are a few interesting things I've heard about it. Young children (2~4) telling parents/daycare workers how they died with greater detail than they should have understood for making up or simply repeating from somewhere else.

Another theory I heard was of old and new souls. Newer souls tend to be the individuals who struggle with finding happiness, the law, or give in to vises due to the lack of subconscious experiences to guide them through life, while older souls are reflected in individuals who rise above challenges, etc.... so in other words the more times a person is reincarnated the closer they get to happiness and enlightenment I suppose.

 

Ah. Sorry, I misunderstood. However, you must realise that biological traits are inherited. That would mean people must reincarnate into the same family. Even then, it seems implausible. Look at the differences that occur between two siblings (who aren't identical twins). Biological components of personality are likely to be caused by a very large number of factors.

If my (oversimplified) calculations are correct, 40 genes would be needed to produce a trillion different combinations. That really isn't so many genes, and its worth noting that genes produce proteins, not personalities. While I don't deny that they can affect the personality, it is much, much more complicated that carrying X gene makes you an ISTP.

Regardless of whether there are enough combinations, it isn't a question of whether two people can have the same biological components of their personality. Its whether they are cosmically related or not. Why shouldn't any similarities be purely coincidental?

And depressing=/=false

 

Do I believe in all this spiritual stuff? Eh. Do I believe in souls? Sure, I guess; it's not like there's proof on either side for me to lean strongly towards any argument about souls.
Well, I guess this means that being transgender is caused by the soul moving into the wrongly sexed body. You fucked up, soul.

 

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Huu, I can't say I believe in past lives, but I do like to try to imagine them. I think in one, I was a kid growing up in a poor part of a New York, in the 1930s, who got in trouble a lot, skipped school, got in fights, and ran away to San Francisco, where I led a life of petty crime.

Or at least that sounds romantic, in ways.

 

I believe in reincarnation. One thing that I've heard is that souls that are older are more used to the world, so the new vessel they are in will be more confident and outgoing. Also, if the soul is newer, the vessel will be more timid and introverted. I personally believe this.
I guess I got stabbed in the leg or something, and that's how I died!

 

Nope, I don't have any past lives. It would be interesting if I did.

 

I'd like to believe in past lives and reincarnation. I just don't find it feasible ya' know. But, it's really cool to think that when we die we just live again. Have a chance to do better in the next life than in the former.

 

Well, if birthmarks mark how you died in a previous life, I think I got bitten by something because I have two birthmarks in my leg that are pretty close to each other.