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 Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:43 pm
If it's possible for there to be other worlds, why is it that people who believe they've had past lives that are highly improbably here are immediately shot down?
"I can remember having a past life as a general in a dragon army."
"No you don't. You just have an over-active imagination, you moron."
Who's to say it's not possible? If other worlds are possible, and life is possible on those worlds, who's to say that life has to exactly mirror our own?
Who's to say that souls don't shuttle between those worlds to gain the experience they need/want?
I think it's entirely possible for there to be another world that has dragons (and dragon riders) and that it's possible that souls from that world have come to this one in the past and continue to do so.
Why condemn the possibility as pure fantasy? Is it just narrow-mindedness, or is it because this world can't seem to get over it's own dogma and ego?
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:00 pm
Heh heh. I've always had such a love for our winged scaly freinds, the dragons. Anyways, it's kind of against my beliefs that we would have had a past life on another world, despite my wishes on such things. I don't really know whether to say if there are past lives or not, but we'll see what happens.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:48 am
Well, I'm merely using the dragons as an example of something the would be improbable in this world, but not necessarily another.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:21 am
True. Physically, the creatures are possible, but they'd be some of the most complex and incredible things if they lived.
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:09 am
Excuse the next three rather caustic paragraphs, but where's the "dogma" and "ego" in not accepting an assertion for which one can't be bothered to provide evidence? If you can state a possibility without proving it, then I'm probably within my intellectual boundaries to reject it without disproving it.
We all wish we could go to Neverland, but unfortunately, fantasy has never been causally synonymous with reality. Am I so dogmatic and egotistical for looking at the world as it is, without painting over it with a fantastical veneer of superstition?
That said, you're completely free to believe whatever you wish regarding the metaphysics behind Peter Pan or whatnot, but please, for the love of Herbert, do not call out the rest of the world for dismissing it as child's play.
Thank you.
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:33 pm
MythosRattus If it's possible for there to be other worlds, why is it that people who believe they've had past lives that are highly improbably here are immediately shot down? "I can remember having a past life as a general in a dragon army." "No you don't. You just have an over-active imagination, you moron." Who's to say it's not possible? If other worlds are possible, and life is possible on those worlds, who's to say that life has to exactly mirror our own? Who's to say that souls don't shuttle between those worlds to gain the experience they need/want? I think it's entirely possible for there to be another world that has dragons (and dragon riders) and that it's possible that souls from that world have come to this one in the past and continue to do so. Why condemn the possibility as pure fantasy? Is it just narrow-mindedness, or is it because this world can't seem to get over it's own dogma and ego? If I believed in other worlds or past lives then I might deem this possible. Unfortunately there is no proof.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:19 pm
If I did live a past life, I must have been a really horrible person.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:33 pm
It's possible.
But see, we don't readily accept things outside of our area of experience.
Like, they're thinking that the American Indians didn't actually SEE Columbus' ships at first.
So, let's say that a wise man was watching the sea and noticed these ripples.
He then tried to puzzle out what was causing those ripples, and eventually figured out that it had to be a huge ship.
He could then see the huge ship.
The others had to have it revealed to them, because it was just so extremely outside of their field of reality that they immediately rejected it.
It's like those planes that have to make emergency landings on highways at night (personal jets and whatnots) and they get into some car crashes because the LAST thing a person in a car expects to see is a plane landing right in front of them.
Seriously... the people tell insurance companies that they just couldn't SEE the planes.
Even though they were right in front of them.
It's because we're barraged with sooooo much information all at once that our brain pulls pieces of info out for us to focus on.
It's why you can totally not hear anyone talking to you when you get absorbed in a book.
Your brain helps you decide what to put all your attention to.
So COULD we have had past lives on other planets?
Why the heck not?
I don't think we'll remember them, though.
We barely ever remember past lives from THIS planet, because mainstream religions are monotheistic with heavens and hells and everything like that (at least, that's what I like to think).
So we're taught from an early age all these laws of science and theories, and we have to keep using our conscious mind, which quickly dissuades us from letting our subconscious out except during dream time.
The only mind we're focusing on nurturing is the conscious, not the subconscious.
Therefore, everything stored in the subconscious is repressed, and since that's where the memories from our past lives are stored, we forget about them.
We forget about them not only for that reason, but because we might come from a silicon-lifeform based planet.
(yeah for random Star Trek references!!! =D)
We have no silicon lifeforms on this planet, so we wouldn't remember the other one because it doesn't make sense to the conscious mind, so it will throw out the information.
I probably totally butchered that explanation.
>_<;;;
I hope SOMEONE understood me.
^^
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