This thread made me giggle
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Doesn't that assume merely one planet, nay, one dimension? While I can see the wisdom of pragmatically believing what you can only see empirically, but I'd like to believe there's more "out there" than this. Who's to say that while our population is increasing that there isn't some other planet and/or dimension suffering some catastophic, violent end thus freeing up more souls?
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This is why I likes you so much!
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Those that are truly enlightened are no longer tortured and their souls are not reincarnated.
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But they can choose to come back and teach others to achive the same state.
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Therefore, people didn't want to keep living the lives they had there, and would rather not exist. Buddhism should have no place in the mind of a person who is able to enjoy his life.
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I disagree. I completely enjoy this life. I want to learn and take in all I can from it. When I am ready I will let go and will have the opportunity to come back and learn more from a different point of view. If I am lucky enough to become enlightened I will definately choose to come back and teach others. (This DOES NOT mean as a human teacher either) Just as I am sure many have taught me.
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Seriously, If you can't remember something that happened in your past life (hypothetically), how can your conciencness exist?
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You need to get past the view that conciousness is "human"
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"enlightened" with no proof whatsoever
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And proof of God? It's all faith. Don't knock others when you yourself follow the same type of concept.
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"Buddhism does not promise but fulfills; Christianity promises everything but fulfills nothing."
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I think that what Christ taught would also fulfill. Chirst, Mohamed, Buddha, (insert many others here)....all great men with great wisdom to impart. Sadly....it is those that come after that tend to corrupt what these people gave to the world.