Originally Posted by Nostradmaus

Right.. Well my 'thoughts' on it are basically that we can in no way ultimatly prove that this is in any way a logical explenation of what follows on after death.

Therefore, all we can do is speculate on hypothetical possibilities if it were to be the case.

I think one of the main problems with this theory is simply that our population is in a constant expanse. However this is only a problem when looked at concepts such as time from a narrow human perspective where we only deal with the steady constant of the 'now'.

I believe the afterlife will naturally exist outside the boundries of time, therefore the fact that we have an ever expanding world population is not to say there are new souls, because 'past' lives figerativly speaking could be souls from future times spawned at this particular point on our world line for reasons beyond our ability to comphrehend.

And furthermore, we should definatly explore the reasons as to why this theory might have come into being in the first place.

What data has lead us to this theory if not the simple fact that we as a species cannot fathom the complete loss of our being? I think most of us just dont want to accept this as a possibility. Therefore throughout time we have created theories as to what 'might' happen in order to create a situation where death becomes easier to accept by saying we (in some altered state), continue on after we leave this realm.

Most would see this theory of the end being 'the end' primarily an 'athiest' view of death. But why?
Just because some ancient philosophical texts written at a time when human logic was pathetically simplistic reletive to what it has become today say that god will provide us a comfortable afterlife if we follow the teachings of cirtain 'so-called' enlightened humans?

To say we are repeatidly reborn is to say that our soul is eternal. And due to the human brain being a finite entitiy, we ofcourse cannot comphrehend eternity. Our main imperfection and what sets us aside from the devine deity that we believe created our universe and all its conditions for harbouring life is that our physical being is only here to experience an extremily tiny portion of time itself. For all we know, once were gone.........were gone... And everything that we once were simply remains a memory to those we leave behind as our physical being decomposes and essentually returns to the earth.

Whatever does happen after death, is ultimatly fairly trivial as it should play no major role in determining any portion of our fate in this physical plane we currantly exist within. I am comfortable with death, because I realise that its a part of life I have absolutly no control over, a final frontier if you will that we all must face at the end of our days and whether or not we will be reborn is inconsiquential to me as all I can do is wait and experience it when my time comes.

I'm sure there will be people out there who believe definitivly that reincarnation is what happens, some will believe heaven and hell (in a number of different forms) is the truth and ofcourse some will believe that the end of our lives, is the end of our existance compleatly.

But anyone who decides they know something like this to the point of being 100% sure is simply fooling themselves into a false sense of understanding for something they can never prove.

Much like religious 'faith'.

But thats another subject compleatly.....