militarypastlives

We should write a FaQ as a community, so that`s the purpose of this thread, we will think of things reincarnation deniers may say and we contrarrest them. When we get satisfying multiple answers we create the definitive thread "answers to reincarnation deniers". What do i want with this thread? a guide for deniers to shut the fuck up and get better arguments, otherwise they go in circles and act all stupid and they make me nervous, don`t they make you nervous too?
So let`s think about things deniers might say, how would you answer to them? (i have my answers but i will post them later, i posted some in other sections before though)

1) Past life regression is false because it `s proved that under hypnosis and trance states you end up claiming weird strange stuff.
2) There is no soul, it`s all in the brain
3) You`re naive if you believe in reincarnation, there`s nothing after death, you just cease to exist, i`m brave and i accept that, do that too.
4) Past life memories? pshh, you must have seen those things in tv and you don`t remember
5) Oh... don`t tell me, you were Cleopatra, right? everyone was famous, that`s why i don`t believe in past lives
6) You find that your life is boring so you imagine a past life and you think it `s real.
7) C´mon, how can you believe that pseudoscientific stuff?

(any more reincarnation denier statements are welcome)

Alright, here's some thoughts on a few of the points raised... nothing fancy, just whatever came to mind.

1) A patient can get a false diagnoisis from a poorly trained physician or psychiatrist, just like a poorly trained hypnotherapist. Misdiagnosises are common, but doesn't make modern medicine an invalid field, and having odd things come up in regression doesn't make hypnosis worthless either. Just as a person should take care in chosing a reputiable physician, anyone considering regression should take care to find a reputable regression therapist. Anything that comes up in regression should be verified against historical fact -- just like anything else related to reincarnation.

2 & 3) I've never seen any real, scientific proof that there is no "soul" or that there's nothing after death. And how can one really even define "soul?" Consciousness itself? Or a copy of our earthly selves, only with angel wings and a harp? Until science can agree on what a soul is, I'll trust my own intuition and experiences on what a soul does.

4) I didn't watch much television as a child, and I certainly never watched any shows about the Holocaust. I would always change the channel when anything about WWII came on, because it made me very uncomfortable.

5) Actually, I was quite obscure. You won't find me in a highschool history book, and I've earned little more than a paragraph in most books that deal with the Holocaust. I was just an ordinary man who had a family, joined the SS, lived my life, and died. Nothing special or "famous" about me. Not everyone claims a "famous" past life, and I've found quite the contrary to be true in good reincarnation forums. Most people were normal men and women, with average families and average jobs and average lives.

6) My life now is quite a bit more exciting than my life in Nazi Germany! The conditions back then limited my personal freedoms a good deal. In this life, I'm able to travel freely as I wish, love whomever I want, and speak out against the government of my country if I disagree with the law is passes. I'm an artist, a writer, a knitter, and I'm working on a college degree. I've had the chance to travel all over the midwest, worked at a summer camp for mentally and physically disabled children (I know, the irony, it kills me too), worked as a licenced body piercer, and most recently, did some work with a palentology museum, setting up displays of Mesozoic dinosaur fossils and casts. In the future, I intend to publish some books, travel the world, get degrees in history and art, and perhaps take a job in artifact restoration with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Or maybe I'll be a college professor. Whatever I do, I'll be much more exciting and benificial to humanity than being a KL commandant.

7) Yeah, I do. Do you heckle nuns about their spiritual beliefs on the weekend for fun?