Why are you so proud of your Google searches? Did I really strike a nerve that badly? I'm sorry if you took any of this personal. Also, my argument was simply that you do not have an open mind because you do not believe in vampires.
I don't believe in God either, that does not mean that I don't have an open mind. I don't go around trying to convince others of my beliefs or disbeliefs as atheists do, I certainly don't cry, whine and sue in court over a nativity scene on a courthouse lawn. I'm also not a hypocrite such as most atheist I know that don't believe in God yet still celebrate Christmas. And would be the ones crying loudest if a Walmart polled and asked who were Christians and who were atheists and then made the atheist work through Christmas while the Christians got the holiday off... And the reason I provided the link was so that someone like yourself might be a little better informed.
I am not so sure about remembering the past, some people can't remember the past in this lifetime when they get old... so are memories stored in the brain and lost or can you access them still after death
your life force moves on... now, if time is not only in a straight line, then a future self could access that past brain.... so one never knows maybe in a higher plane of existence you will be able to remember all lives, but in the current life you only have access to this one so many unknowns, so many possibilities.... ....
No I am Lakota Sioux, we believe everything has a spirit, and all life is precious. I'm also a realist, I am classified as an omnivore...I eat meat and plants...I hunt and fish, and I eat what I catch. And yes two weeks every year I go up to my property in Alaska and live the primitive lifestyle that I will retire to soon.
Genetics explains it... We are the present product of genetic code that is inside the living people. We had to have been here before in order for a code to have existed. We "flowered" and are experiencing a life which is essential to keeping the codd information alive,... inside us, the living people.
Hahaaaa,... So true. The Conscious mind is very limited. But I was referring to the Unconscious mind which remembers our previous life experiences, and many details from our conscious existence during the past. Freud and Carl Jung both agreed that is is correct thinking. And recent studies confirm that our Unconscious mind actually rules over what we think are Conscious decisions and rules of life.
Yes, that thinking was called animism, where people believed their thoughts came from outside of their own mind. Many then assumed that other things held spirits, too. The great Christian message was that Reality is the creator, and men must understand that the Truth describes it. You know this is true, because you survive by tools your people developed by observing truth, and then using it as a way to deal with the nature of Reality as it unfolds. Your previous society taught the ways to the new born. We call that "Culture," today.
“The splendor of life stands out preeminently, while beyond all, and in all, dwells the Great Mystery, unsolved and unsolvable, except in those things which it is good for his own spirit to know.” “Religion was the basis of all Indian training,” and a Sioux’s spirituality was inextricably tied into an awareness of the natural world, which he believed was sacred. All living things were thought to have a soul — not of the same kind as man, but a spirit created by the Maker nonetheless. The Sioux man felt a kinship with both the land and the animals upon it, and was grateful for the clothing and food the natural world provided him. He retained an awe and wonder in this connection his whole life through: –Charles Alexander Eastman I feel more at peace and grounded when I am out living off the land. If you listen hard enough you can hear the trees whispering...See the glory of a night sky without light pollution.
You have to explain how you know there is nothing after death. There are numerous documentations of near-death experiences that described an afterlife. That alone, already negate your opinion.