reincarnation Rainer poor christians, you are sure you have one life only.. 990618 ... Zoe well, technically, christians think that they have an everlasting life in heaven after this life. (i'm not one, but i do know what they believe in). i like the idea of reincarnation, but i bet i would become a roach or something. 000717 ... silentbob i want to be reincarnated as a really beautiful song. or that really really excited feeling when you first find someone who loves you back and all the unrequited love goes to hell. 000717 ... klarchen I must join you on this magical reincarnation ride you speak of, bobby, as the song is mocking me with its uneven rhythms and shocking sixths. It begs for a little resolution. It begs for a little peace of wholesome oneness. It begs for a little love. 000717 ... birdmad i want to come back as any one of the mysterious creatures that lives near the bottom of the deepest parts of the ocean the ones that glow with chemical light from within their own bodies and swim in the deepest darkness floating freely like angels in a place where the weight of the sea would crush us like the insects we so gleefully stomp as children or as any of the odd and terrible giants that share the eternal night of the deep blue sea 000717 ... grendel the scriptural leviathan perhaps 000717 ... typhoid there's nothing i'd rather be than myself 000717 ... whirligirl once, twice, three times a lady. 000717 ... tourist It is the only thing that makes sense to me. One life in the balance against an eternity of reward OR punishment is just far too extreme for me to believe in. And it's not an escape of judgement that I gain from this it's a method of redemptive learning through successive cycles through life. Whenever I meet someone that is either a blessing or a pain, I believe that we have met before and we're still working out the situation. As far as comming back as something other than human I believe you'd have to really screw up very badly. As it seems to me that it is in human form that we will work out our past injustuces until we become compassionate enough to lay all this down so we don't have to keep circling through death after life after death after life . Till we've been it all and done it all . Killer, Victim. Rapist, Raped. Con man, Mark. Hooker, Pimp. Mother, Child. Sinner, Saint. Jailer, Prisoner...On and On, until we become both Lover and Beloved awakening at last from this Dream. 010115 ... deb i don't get it- why do you think it's such a wonderful thing, this idea of perpetual life here in this god-forsaken place? i wouldn't want to come back once i've gone- not even as the spoiled cat of some princess- 010115 ... bohdisattva tourist Get it right and you don't have to come back, that's the whole point of the game! Wake up and realize that incarnation is an illusion, but there is no place truly Godforsaken, only those who will not see. 010115 ... kx21 Reincarnation is not needed if you can move faster or slower than Time, It is even batter if you can kill the TIME or keep the TIME at still... 010116 ... kx21 or PUT the TIME to DEATH... 010116 ... Erin I wish you were reborn and lived new lives forever, and only remembered the good of the life before...That is what I think life should be... 010304 ... TheDurb yeah erin, and you are not the one who makes life up, are you? And kx21, do you even know what time is? Time is only relative to the span of life that we all live 010411 ... j_blue anyways reincarnation is completely likely, simply because its consistant with what life has to teach us; we exist to get fucked, constantly, and reincarnation is just a way to get fucked forever 010411 ... j_blue l8ly i've been suspecting that in my former life, i must have lived to be an old bitter woman who would talk someone up instead of down from suicide or maybe that i will become one... not that i feel my genitals are misplaced 020129 ... kx21 The strangeness of Gene(s)'s Evolution or Phase_transition(s)? 020129 ... tierless i hope i come back as a tree 020704 ... me i love the reincarnation of life and its beautiful things, and i would love to be a kitty... and be soft an fuzzy...what would you reincarnate yourself as if you had a choice? 040512 ... r1y9a6n4 what would you be if you could choose? i think i'd like to be an eel. i'd sit under water all day in my little hole, peering out at whatever passed by. deciding who would be my dinner for the night. or even who was just gonna look at me wrong so that i could shoot out and let them know i was there. yeah, i think i'd want to be an eel. 040512 ... love & hate i want to be reincarnated as a fat, black, happyclapper. They are the happiest people that exist in this world. 040513 ... birdmad if the wheel is anything like grade-school, the worst thing that could happen is that i get held back and forced to repeat this incarnation. if that happens, i'm dropping out next time. 040514 ... a "point" The_body_is_always_'dead' 040824 ... jane bring me back as a whale_shark in the galapagos 080628 ... Definishun Be made of meat, again. 080629 ... e_o_i There is a good Margaret Atwood story about reincarnation, sort of... or the idea that people are not the only creatures who have stories and rituals... called "My Life as a Bat", I think. It's also funny in sort of an abstract way. 101015 ... re_alisma i've grown quite serious about it. it assauges my anger and frustration, and allows for greater freedom and acceptance this time around. i don't know why anybody would not want it, unless they have fully exhausted what they want from "this". in fact, it's kind of just convenient because not believing causes me greater problems than believing... it's unrealistic to assume many this-life outcomes when life won't accomodate them. why, then, be forever under a spector of rejection and frustration? it's just not warranted. because i believe i have quite a lot of time left, with many dramatic twists and turns guaranteed to make the changes i will need. it's just that now, it's more or less quiet. not making excuses for it, just stating the facts. it's not "gonna be okay." it already is and it already will be. still, i don't really wish this outlook on everyone. it takes a lot of faith and a lot of coping and patience and batting down that-which-threatens-true-desires to make it work. it's no proverbial walk in the park, but it may be many literal ones. and to be fair to the now, it is only when i can really forget the things i might be worrying about (the "unfinished" or the "threatened") that i will come around again to desires for the time being. and that may be when more time has transpired since my illness. 101018 ... Soma it occurs here. again. cycle after cycle. Skite after skite. I am wavering at the brink of death, or of birth. Hard to tell. 101018 what's it to you? who go blather from