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[quote=Anonymous]I don't have hard, concrete experiences to back up my belief, but this is what I think about the afterlife (and beforelife):

Since everything we can observe in nature is cyclical (aka matter doesn't cease to exist, it just changes form), it would seem logical to me that the same thing would apply to our souls. I believe in souls because it's the only explanation I can come up with for emotions that are so strong (love, hate, etc.) that pure chemicals and hormones don't seem to provide enough explanation.

All that is to say, I believe in reincarnation. I believe we've all always existed and we'll always exist. We just change form. You know how people say, "I met this person and we had an instant connection, like we've always known each other"? To me, that means you probably met in an earlier life. You might have been a human, or maybe you were an animal, but you met.

I also believe in the Buddhist idea of being able to earn a place outside the suffering, material world by being a really good person while in it. I believe in the idea that if you can focus on what's important--being good to others, really--you stand a chance of reaching a higher plane, where you don't have to deal with the suffering we have in the material world.

It doesn't mean you go to some other planet; you're still here, but you just exist in some way that it's really corporal.

Anyway, hopefully that's somewhat coherent. BTW, I don't strictly define myself as a Buddhist, although I spent a lot of time with Buddhist monks in Thailand and love them. I'm basically a cultural Jew who also accepts a lot of the concepts from Buddhism. [/quote]

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