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Black Lion · (#10 (**permalink**))

"what did we do in our past lives to deserve what we are going through as a nation? Where did we go wrong? "

I didn't mean that in some kind of bad way. Some people would (like to)haveus think that because we prayed to ''diffrent'' Gods we were cursed or that we fell behind the rest of the world or some non sence when we had buildings and metal works just as everyone else did and belived that God was in everything.I wassemi disproving the whole Karma debt thing we were talking about in STs topic.

Your entire personality is characterized by the chemicals in your brain (RNA, etc.), which is totally of the physical world.

But whats the driving force behind the khemicals? My personality has changed since I was a kid andwhen I win the lottery no doubtthey'll change again. Reincarnation has to do with us as energy matterrather than anything physical, as energy never dies we are said to be recycled in the same way water goes through a cycle, evaporating, dissapating into the air and coming back down as rain again. I guess the, 'waiting room' would be where the water is trapped as humidty waiting to become rain again.Peacemaker mentions it, what we go through impacts on our personality.

In the end,reincarnation is just another belief system that attempts to explain what happens after death...

Some theories yeah, I don't like the Hindu version. Its more or less the evolution theory based on Karma. If you do bad as a human you're said to come back as an animal thats as low down the cycle as your actions. Might be why there are more rats in the world than there are humans but personally I think thats attaching human qualities to animals, rats might have their own thing going on for allwe know.

Some theories have it that there are animals higher up the chain than we are, Lizards, Cats and Birds for e.g soas part of our development astravelling energy matter we might incarnate as a cat,mightbringthat upwith the teachers at the Asaur Auset Society, they don't seem to like that one. The concept of immortality is the idea of keeping your idenitity over incarnations so you'd have all the knowledge of your past experiences. Like the Dali Lama. If any group can validate the idea of reincarnation its the Tibetan Monks its not as though they don'tmake sure they've got the right person.Only thing with that is that he always seems to be another Tibetan... why dosen't he reincarnate as an Aborigonee? Unless he can control who he incarnates as and chooses to come back as another Tibetan.

It's not all that important to know about though and only serves to be a distraction anyway. Buddhism is , so looking there will only confuse people.

Not all that important? Being able to intuit knowledge from past incarnations, know what happens after death etc etc?To know your full capability as a human being and why do you thinkBuddahism isabit off? It hardly has anything more to it than knowledge of self.

Better to think in terms of I instead of we.

Its we (Africans). We are a collective no matter how well we do individually it all impacts on the individual.

It's actually worse in somewaysto be in the English speaking nations, since that's where people develop alot of their problems. For example alot of serial Killers come from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia...more so than other countries. The psychological problems westernersdevelop are much much worse than what occurselsewhere in the world. Selfishness, greed, arrogance, racism, sexual perversions, etc, etc. And unfortunately it's purely the psychological aspects which decides what type oflife you'll end up leading in the future.

True. Has nothing to do with us though, other than what might rub off on us if thats what you mean.

You're thinking too much about black people materially. That's why you think blacks have gone wrong somehow.

Self preservation in a country ruled by an imbalanced people. I don't want to share their;attitudes- desires and goals for the most part.

Gotta get something to eat.

HTP

RL