Raitanator wrote:Well, it would be argument fallacy to try to prove that reincarnation exists only because Siddhartha said so. However, we can prove that englightened being, Siddhartha, said that there is reincarnation - migration from one realm to another.
IMHO, reincarnation better be true, otherwise I'm missing a lot and numbing my arse for no reason!
It's not only Siddhartha who spoke about rebirth. There were others.
One such recent example is Edgar Cayce.
Not only Edgar Cayce described past lifes of his patients while on hypnosis, he also related present illness to past life bad deeds, Karma. There are lot of people who recovered very serious illness by his prescriptions and advice. It is evidence to prove that his treatments are accurate. If his treatments are accurate and if it make people recover very serious illness even many specialist doctors could not, we can accept his reasoning relating them to past life karma. (If you are interested you can read these Edgar Cayce Life readings through there website edgarcayce.org after paying for membership)
Edgar Cayce fit all this within his known religion and understood it differently, but we can understand it more readily as it is our Buddhist teachings. Perhaps, if Edgar Cayce was a Buddhist, he would had understood these things better.
Of cause, some skeptics does not believe anything what Edgar Cayce says. How could they, when they even don't believe what Buddha said. I also don't believe anything by face value. That's why I read books about Edgar Cayce, then read his real Life Readings and also criticisms. If you do a thorough research, you will understand the truth. Where as
most skeptics, they just keep arguing about what they THINK without putting effort to really understand anything. I know I sound very impolite, I'm very sorry that I had to write it like that.
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