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Originally Posted by MargaretR
I don't have a religion.
I understand how some people assume that religion and reincarnation belief neccessarily go together.
They don't - so all this religion talk is off thread.
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The problem with reincarnation is that we know what makes us human is a brain and if that brain is damaged then what we are is reduced, we don't have the same functions. So when we die the brain dies - so without a brain how can it carry on when we know what we percieve as consciousness is a sum of many parts. Surviving death suggests we can exist independantly as a whole - when we know we can't physically exist if part of the brain is damaged.
Also it takes a male and female to produce a child - so if there is reincarnation then how come we have to come back through that. No one yet has come back without being re-born! Oh! I forget it is claimed Jesus Will - the Second Coming!