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Post by caseagainstfaith on Mar 30, 2011 14:38:51 GMT -5
I stuck this in science thread because I am asking it not from the religious aspect of how you live your life decides what you come back as but as the scientific aspect.
Since we know matter can't be destroyed or created, but just changes shape and mass, would it be possible that once your corpse decomposes or if sped up from cremation that maybe decades from now the same matter that once made your old body might be turned into the cells to create some other creature or maybe even another human? So when I say reincarnation I ment it loosely though hopefully you see what I am getting at as a possibility.
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Post by Dan on Mar 30, 2011 14:47:03 GMT -5
No.
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Post by Cygnus on Mar 30, 2011 14:53:56 GMT -5
Matter does get recycled, so it is possible for that matter to end up in another living organism. I don't think there is any point in calling what you're talking about reincarnation, though.
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Post by caseagainstfaith on Mar 30, 2011 15:00:08 GMT -5
Matter does get recycled, so it is possible for that matter to end up in another living organism. I don't think there is any point in calling what you're talking about reincarnation, though. Well I did mean the term loosely, I didn't know of a better way of putting basically your dog could have some recycled matter in him that x time ago was another animal of some sort. |
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Post by Mira on Mar 30, 2011 21:19:29 GMT -5
When you eat something, its matter becomes your matter.
This happens constantly.
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Post by Vene on Mar 30, 2011 21:46:09 GMT -5
I am currently reincarnating a pig.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Mar 30, 2011 21:56:59 GMT -5
The definition of "reincarnation" being used here is looser than Jenna Jameson.
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Post by impatiens on Mar 30, 2011 22:03:13 GMT -5
When you put it that way, we are reincarnations of stars. In the distant future, stars will be reincarnations of us.
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Post by Paradox on Mar 30, 2011 22:11:28 GMT -5
Sure, why not.
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Post by cagnazzo on Mar 31, 2011 3:18:02 GMT -5
I am currently reincarnating a pig. In eighty years you will be fifty mushrooms, a thousand worms, a hojillion bacteria and possibly a pack of coyotes if you're awesome enough to die in the woods. |
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Post by Shane for Wax on Mar 31, 2011 6:55:43 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by Yla on Mar 31, 2011 7:37:27 GMT -5
;D It's not what people usually mean when they say reincarnation, but what you're describing is not only possible, but probable. |
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Post by Vene on Mar 31, 2011 8:14:15 GMT -5
I am currently reincarnating a pig. In eighty years you will be fifty mushrooms, a thousand worms, a hojillion bacteria and possibly a pack of coyotes if you're awesome enough to die in the woods. Also wolves. |
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Post by Sigmaleph on Apr 1, 2011 19:54:06 GMT -5
Don't need to die, though. We are continuously ejecting matter that was part of us at some point, and some of it ends in other living things. Meaning that, as per your definition, we are already reincarnated even while we're alive.
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Post by Yla on Apr 2, 2011 5:56:01 GMT -5
we are already reincarnated even while we're alive. Wow. If we were talking about reincarnation of the soul, this would be crazy shit. |
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