Originally Posted by harpua

i think when you finally draw your last breath and close your eyelids, you open them right after almost as if you blinked. but you are comming out of the womb and being reborn as a baby seeing the world for the first time, in that second long blink, you forget 99.9% of what you knew in your past life. i say the 99.9% because in the rare instances, when kids reach their second year of life, they sometimes (very rare) they talk and act like they're someone else, i forget the term, but its like relivivng past life experiences. the other idea i have besides reincarnation is death is only the beguinning of something else, the next step in a way, to what? i dunno, but that's what i think. i don't think theirs any pearly gates or anything nor is their any 'limbo' to wait in. but for some reason, i do think bad people do go somewhere. not quite like hell, but somewhere..

Originally Posted by harpua

i think when you finally draw your last breath and close your eyelids, you open them right after almost as if you blinked. but you are comming out of the womb and being reborn as a baby seeing the world for the first time, in that second long blink, you forget 99.9% of what you knew in your past life. i say the 99.9% because in the rare instances, when kids reach their second year of life, they sometimes (very rare) they talk and act like they're someone else, i forget the term, but its like relivivng past life experiences. the other idea i have besides reincarnation is death is only the beguinning of something else, the next step in a way, to what? i dunno, but that's what i think. i don't think theirs any pearly gates or anything nor is their any 'limbo' to wait in. but for some reason, i do think bad people do go somewhere. not quite like hell, but somewhere..

Originally Posted by Fireal

impossible. The Death/Birth ratio would have to b 1:1 which i doubt it is

Originally Posted by SoLiDUS

Don't hold back: live as though you had no other chance at a conscious
experience. Regret is the worst feeling one can have awareness of - the
sum of your energy should be invested in this life and not held back for
something like a chance to live again. Now is your moment: determine
how to best experience your existence and consciously enjoy Being in all
its glory; from one awareness to the last...

Originally Posted by Coleman

Heaven, Hell, pergatory (for people to wait out to be cleansed from their sins), limbo (for the unbaptized babies).

I've always asked myself though, "What happens to the people in Africa, for example, that don't even know about Christianity? Would they ever make it into heaven?"

Originally Posted by Inertia

If I'm not mistaken most Christ based religions require you to accept Jesus as your savior...failure to do so would mean that you would be cast into hell for your sins.

Originally Posted by Coleman

Yeah, but I always wondered about the uninformed people. I know they can't get to heaven without being baptized, but I was wondering if they have a "pergatory/limbo-type" of place to go? Gotta ask a priest that sometime.

Originally Posted by Fireal

I never heard you HAVE to be baptized. Is that a Catholic thing?