Saturday, February 13, 2010
Reincarnation revisited
A friend said in an email today that he didn't see how reincarnation could work; I'd never figured that out myself, but in replying to him I came up with this:
Because of my experiences with ghosts, I know that there are souls, and that they survive the death of the body. Since they get into houses, spirits can probably pass through matter; I can't say definitely, because they might be hovering around the doors like dogs waiting for them to be opened so they can get through, or they might also be squeezing through the same cracks that allow even pretty big spiders and such to get into every room... I can't even imagine how to create a sealed room and get a person in there for a ghost to interact with without the ghost being able to enter when the person does, so even when science learns how to detect them we may never know the answer to that one.
Anyways; if we assume that ghosts can pass through matter, what's to keep them from STAYING inside, say, a wall if they chose? If a wall, why not a fetal brain? And if a spirit gets back into a brain, is it so hard to imagine it'd attach itself and settle in, assuming that said brain was complex enough to host it, and didn't already have a soul in it, or at least not a fully-formed one? (I've always assumed that souls formed gradually as the energy from the fetal brain thinking and feeling built up; now, I guess I also have to consider the idea that God creates the basic soul and puts it in, which would have the benefit of explaining how the soul has a cohesive and lasting structure... although I still dislike the idea of explaining every confusing thing with "God did it.")
The idea of an old soul DISPLACING a fetal one is chilling, pretty much horror movie material given the trouble-making type of soul that one might assume would be willing to do such a thing, and there's no solid reason to deny the possibility of it happening from a purely logical standpoint... but, one of the nice things about accepting the existence of a loving God is that I think He probably wouldn't allow it.
I'm not saying that souls DO move on to new bodies, regularly or EVER, but it's not too hard to make a case that they COULD.
Because of my experiences with ghosts, I know that there are souls, and that they survive the death of the body. Since they get into houses, spirits can probably pass through matter; I can't say definitely, because they might be hovering around the doors like dogs waiting for them to be opened so they can get through, or they might also be squeezing through the same cracks that allow even pretty big spiders and such to get into every room... I can't even imagine how to create a sealed room and get a person in there for a ghost to interact with without the ghost being able to enter when the person does, so even when science learns how to detect them we may never know the answer to that one.
Anyways; if we assume that ghosts can pass through matter, what's to keep them from STAYING inside, say, a wall if they chose? If a wall, why not a fetal brain? And if a spirit gets back into a brain, is it so hard to imagine it'd attach itself and settle in, assuming that said brain was complex enough to host it, and didn't already have a soul in it, or at least not a fully-formed one? (I've always assumed that souls formed gradually as the energy from the fetal brain thinking and feeling built up; now, I guess I also have to consider the idea that God creates the basic soul and puts it in, which would have the benefit of explaining how the soul has a cohesive and lasting structure... although I still dislike the idea of explaining every confusing thing with "God did it.")
The idea of an old soul DISPLACING a fetal one is chilling, pretty much horror movie material given the trouble-making type of soul that one might assume would be willing to do such a thing, and there's no solid reason to deny the possibility of it happening from a purely logical standpoint... but, one of the nice things about accepting the existence of a loving God is that I think He probably wouldn't allow it.
I'm not saying that souls DO move on to new bodies, regularly or EVER, but it's not too hard to make a case that they COULD.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
And the winner is...
The winner of the $50 Safeway gift card (also good at Dominick´s, Tom Thumb, Randalls, Vons, Genuardi´s) provided by Safeway, Fiber One and MyBlogSpark is... Donna V.!!
Don't feel bad if you didn't win... another contest is coming VERY soon!!
Don't feel bad if you didn't win... another contest is coming VERY soon!!
