Old souls

[727Sky]

Growing up Southern Baptist with the fire and brimstone preachers sometime around1974 while living in a Buddhist country and liking what I was seeing I sat down and read the new testament until I got to Matthew and read where Christ said he came for the Jews and not the Canaanites... I continued on and read the letters of Paul.... IMO at the time I considered Paul was the one communicating from jail who sent disciples out to recruit the Gentiles. Forgive me as 1974 was a long time ago for me to remember all the details...

Now the reincarnation thingy.

I had a monk tell me we are born 7 times unless you screw up then it is a do over. By the 7th time you have learned all your soul is supposed to learn and you then, upon your death, go to the next plain. What is the next plain no one really knows but is is supposedly something to do with becoming one with the ?????

Have you met people who were dumber than a door knob while others who you were comfortable with or even admired and felt like a great fitting relationship glove. ... You see people with afflictions or just really having a bad life and according to the monk their last life caused much misery to others ... Wonder what Hitler, Pol Pot, or MAO will or have come back as ?

I am supposedly on my 4th life according to the Monk dude and that along with some money will buy me a cup of coffee as the saying goes.... I am not concerned or worried about death or the afterlife as I find most religions which were written down by the hand of man to be nothing more that superstitious beliefs that followed us since we first started asking why as a species..

People and whole religious structures make a living off of the fear of some Sky Fairy or a devil that lives in a pit where your loving Sky fairy father will send you for all eternity if you screw up bad enough...

There is good and protections in most if not all religions as in some cases they regulate and protect the society. There is also some sick shit in many of them..

George had some interesting thoughts on religion and God whether people agree or not.

3-year old Dorothy was playing, then accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. She hit her head and was knocked unconscious. When her parents found her, she wasn't breathing. They called a doctor who rushed over immediately. Dorothy's mother broke down when the doctor said there was nothing he could do. Her little girl was dead. The doctor left and returned an hour later with Dorothy's death certificate and gently discussed arrangements for the little girl's body. But during this conversation, shuffling was heard coming from Dorothy's room. They ran upstairs and there she was, playing in her room like nothing happened. The doctor examined her again. There was no sign of injury. He had no explanation. He said it appeared as if Dorothy had come back from the dead. He didn't realize how right he was.