as a young boy I’d play in the local meadow, each year it was similar but i’d say completely new. Create, destroy, recreate anew, that is what nature constantly does. All things die and yet all things live [not necessarily to exactitude], the broth is turned in the cauldron -so to speak, things are mixed in and others taken out, then in each bowl [the world] a new world is presented.
Question then is; if nature creates continual renewal, then surely any and all associative divinities have the same teleology? …at least as concerns this world, and assumedly such divinities want this life for us. perhaps it shows us something about what divinity is [god/gods/deities/spiritual world etc].
In short that means; no god-like immortality, no immortality via resurrection, no rebirth and no reincarnation! …for humans.
It’s strange but there was a time that nature’s recycling and renewal appeared to point out to me that there could possibly be such a thing as reincarnation.
What is this about other gods/divinities? Just how many do you think there are? We can’t even wrap our minds over one - many of us, that is.
I have pondered this somewhat [30yrs ], but as nothing is repeated; what gets reincarnated? This is why Buddha replaced the idea with rebirth, where only the inner-most self moves on [one candle goes out, and another is lit [i.e. with nothing between!]]. I can see how Hindus think of reincarnation as something akin to the ‘soul’ getting out of one vehicle and into another, but you would think the soul would make a massive impact upon its new host. Yet I expect our personalities etc, are genetic and due to ones nurturing ~ or in short, everything of us we can see in the world is of the world!!!?
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I was covering all bases with the god/gods thing. I have thought that reincarnation kinda fits nature ~ makes sense of it even.
What does the anti-immortality theme tell us though? What if divinity is the cauldron and so receives its own eternity in that diversity and constant renewal?
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If we existed as souls or spirits prior to our births into this world, then wouldn’t we want immortality for that self?
I also wonder that, as people are so completely unique and special, it would be something of a defilement to attempt to change or destroy that. …another you would not be ‘you’ right!
