[quote author=pattycake link=topic=95320.msg615023#msg615023 date=1422393702]
As terrestrial offspring from Stars, we as souls, are forms of energy placed into a house of tissue, our bodies, and held down with gravity on a floating planet. And thus, when the soul is released from it's house in departure, it returns, by electromagnetism, to it's point of origin in the ethereal. Where
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This is totally inaccurate as it pertains to Hinduism.
Religious reincarnation in the form of Hindu dogma takes the view that there exists a totem pole of life forms. Human beings are the highest on the totem pole. Insects represent the creatures on the bottom end of the totem pole.
Hinduism makes the claim that human beings are continually reborn or re-incarnated (samsara) until they achieve moksha and are released to be at one with Brahma and thus ending the cycle of births and deaths. The process to get to moksha (the dharma), the soul of the human being (the atman) is dependent on the actions of its host (the karma). So for example, if one was born into a lower caste they best bet would be to do good deeds and be reborn into a higher caste like a Brahmin. If they do evil deeds they may end up on the lower end of the totem pole as an insect.
There is not one iota of scientific evidence to support the Hindu proposition.
The religious ideas of re-incarnation are therefore very different from what science has discovered about the nature of exploding stars or the chemical makeup of all living things.
As terrestrial offspring from Stars, we as souls, are forms of energy placed into a house of tissue, our bodies, and held down with gravity on a floating planet. And thus, when the soul is released from it's house in departure, it returns, by electromagnetism, to it's point of origin in the ethereal. Where
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This is totally inaccurate as it pertains to Hinduism.
Religious reincarnation in the form of Hindu dogma takes the view that there exists a totem pole of life forms. Human beings are the highest on the totem pole. Insects represent the creatures on the bottom end of the totem pole.
Hinduism makes the claim that human beings are continually reborn or re-incarnated (samsara) until they achieve moksha and are released to be at one with Brahma and thus ending the cycle of births and deaths. The process to get to moksha (the dharma), the soul of the human being (the atman) is dependent on the actions of its host (the karma). So for example, if one was born into a lower caste they best bet would be to do good deeds and be reborn into a higher caste like a Brahmin. If they do evil deeds they may end up on the lower end of the totem pole as an insect.
There is not one iota of scientific evidence to support the Hindu proposition.
The religious ideas of re-incarnation are therefore very different from what science has discovered about the nature of exploding stars or the chemical makeup of all living things.
