(November 13, 2010 at 7:29 am)Darwinian Wrote: I don't so much believe but instead have weird ideas.
One of my favourites and just as unfalsifiable as any religion is that reincarnation is true and that when we die, not only can we come back as any sentient entity in the Cosmos but we also are not limited by time. So, for my next lifetime, I could quite easily come back as someone who lived in the 10th century just as easily as I could come back as someone in the 22nd century.
This then poses the possibility that every single conscious lifeform that has ever been and will ever be is in fact the same person constantly getting reincarnated until they have been everyone.
So, if we are all then the same person the only question is, have I been you yet or is that still to come?
Wow, that is fascinating, I have heard stuff like this before, and apparently so has someone else in the forum. I hadn't considered that Atheism does leave room for forms of reincarnation beliefs and, now that I think about it, Buddhist beliefs (I'm sorry, I'm just used to the term "belief" I believe you used the the term "idea"). This very much underlines the point this thread is making about "Atheism" not being a unified body with a code of belief. Typically the assumption on behalf of Christians would be that Atheists are all Naturalists, but clearly many have ideas about things beyond what we can observe scientifically. Very interesting Darwinian, thank you for sharing.
