Do you believe in past life?

Right, the first one is rebirth or reincarnation. I find that a little hard to believe only for this assessment. If we are constantly being reborn than that would mean there was a limited number of souls to begin with. In addition, with the population on the rise, that would mean the demand for souls would run short. I highly doubt animals are reborn into human souls. The second option seems more likely because we carry the genetic make-up of all our ancestors. This is why we evolve. Our brains carry over from generations past all that man has learned. Each generation contributes to the advancement of mankind. This isn't always a good thing though. We also carry any psychological disorders from each generation as well. Thus, we have the good and bad of mankind. This is only my humble theory. Nothing to heavy. However, I did learn a lot about mankind when I was one of the original scientists performing psychological and behavioral tests with the Dharma Initiative. Hmmmm, what do you think about that secretbear? ‹(°¿°)›

you made me Lost jumpinjack! lol i was beginning to think that you really are a scientist who worked on a mankind project but then, you mentioned the Dharma initiative! lol i was already like, "OMG, im chatting with a real scientist???" lol anyway.. well, i think the world wouldnt run out of souls coz there is a higher Being that creates it. maybe sometimes He gets tired of creating one so He just lets one soul to reincarnate. lol or, this is much better, he wants to punish a soul coz it lived so bad that He reincanated it and turn it into a lowly living being like a cockroach, so that he could suffer more. so there would be no Hell, only heaven. and that Hell is really the world. i am really amazed by the Hindu belief, (it is the Hindu belief right? lol) that a person can exit from the cycle of being reincarnated only after he reached Nirvana. so i guess some souls would be like, a hundred years old or a thousand years old. geez.. im already ancient! lol

so regarding the first one that you said, its like having to believe in reincarnation right? and the second one, that's an interesting possibility. maybe it could be the reason why some people are so alike with one of their ancestors. and this could really be possible since our hereditary traits are of course carried by our genes which are from our ancestors.

Well, it would make sense if you think that all souls of all living being are the same. and being a different living being after being reincarnated is a symbol of like a punishment or reward. anyway, i also believe in the afterlife. coz i believe we have souls. and after we die, there are ony 3 places where the souls can go, either in heaven, hell or in the purgatory.

no, no.. you're not creating any ambiguity here. i welcome all opinions that people here in myLot could share. all that has been said here has been interesting for me and im thankful for all the responses. i've always been interested with this aspect of life, religion in a narrow aspect because im curious of what will exactly happen if i die. although i believe in heaven and hell, and that humans have soul, i still find myself thinking sometimes what will happen if i die? if my mind stops from thinking and my heart stops from beating? will i still feel? or rather, does the soul feel? things like that. ^__^ your comment was really interesting and i was kinda.. i dont know... happy to know that your religion is Islam and you have shared this information to me. ^__^

of course, there are black sheeps in every different religions, even in the most holiest (as they claim) religion. i guess we could see in our history why Muslims have always been tagged and suspected as terrorists. but i wouldnt include myself with those people who are judgemental. people are just the same irregardless of religion right? ^__^ wow. did u copy that from your Quran book or u really know that word by word? ^__^ just kidding. im embarassed. if i wanted to quote something from the Bible, i wouldnt know where to look. lol i admit, im not a bible-reader. i dont even go to church regularly. but im a believer i guess. ^__^

hmmm.. that's another idea. reincarnation being uncommon. yeah, as we've said above there are less people before than now so the excess people now have newly created souls. which means, not all the people now are reincarnated. its good to have your view. ^__^

what do the numbers mean???

I think I was probably a maid or something. I like to keep things clean and can't stand when they are out of place.

Yeah, it could be that we're just imagining things. But how can we imagine if we dont have any ideas to imagine on? Yeah, anything is possible. So maybe the reason why can we imagine things is because it is there, i mean it maybe had existed, maybe we have experienced it, have felt it.. y'know.. geezz, what am i saying! ^__^;; i guess im a collector before, coz i like to collect things, cute and pretty things. ^__^