Re: Translation for Judith.

[Guest guest]

Bjorn (how do I get the correct " o " on my keyboard?),

I love that comment. What little I know about the theory of reincarnation

(what I was spoonfed was doubtless as oversimplified and religocentric as

all else has proved to be) has always struck me as odd and assuming a

disconnection from other living things. But rather convenient -- like

Dante's " Inferno " . We insist that our deities and afterlife theories echo

our perception of fairness, after all, despite incredible evidence to the

contrary.

I went to a play with my mother, and she was mourning the fact that she

would never sing the lead in that particular musical because she's now too

old. The way I see it, if her granddaughter does, hasn't my mom in a way

done it? And the fact that that woman did it so beautifully - don't we

share in that as human beings? Why does it have to happen to ME

individually for me to celebrate it? I'll be happy if my remains nourish

the grass above me, but perhaps that just me.

>I think the belief in reincarnation is a

>kind of Western disease - greed!

>

>Born again. (ups)

>

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[Guest guest]

Hi .

First. How to get an 'ø' without a danish/norwegian keybord?

Maybe you could paste my name into the text, and then use the spelling

device.

When the device suggests something you just press 'Learn'. That was

what I did, so if I accidently should write 'Bjorn', my spelling device

will suggest Bjørn. Then just press 'Replace'. Let me know if it

works, anyway I know several on the net who hade made it. But you see,

I have no problem as the letter is on my keybord.

Then to reincarnation. I think we agree on this.

In Eastern religions reincarnation is a kind of punishment for not

being able to have a pure life. The next life will then be a kind of correction.

In Denmark almost 40% percent of the population believe in reincarnation,

but don't have a clue of it's context. They just want some more lives to

live, hopefully as a billionaire next time. Or a pop star, prime minister

etc.

I once worked in a project, where our secretary told us about an esoteric

society of which she was a member.

The members of this socieaty mostly lived dull lives, and their homes

were rather conventional, and they didn't have very exciting occupations.

But in their earlier lives they had all been something very interesting,

like court ladies at the French Court during Ludvig XIV, or something like

that. Even though more than 90% of the french population at that time were

poor peasants, everybody had been connected with something interesting.

So, in their holidays they went to France, and visited the places where

they had lived before.

This was their only excitement in life.

Well, you can probably imagine what I think of it.

Bjørn.

" B." wrote:

Bjorn (how do I get the correct "o" on my keyboard?),

I love that comment. What little I know about the theory of reincarnation

(what I was spoonfed was doubtless as oversimplified and religocentric as

all else has proved to be) has always struck me as odd and assuming a

disconnection from other living things. But rather convenient -- like

Dante's "Inferno". We insist that our deities and afterlife theories echo

our perception of fairness, after all, despite incredible evidence to the

contrary.

I went to a play with my mother, and she was mourning the fact that she

would never sing the lead in that particular musical because she's now too

old. The way I see it, if her granddaughter does, hasn't my mom in a way

done it? And the fact that that woman did it so beautifully - don't we

share in that as human beings? Why does it have to happen to ME

individually for me to celebrate it? I'll be happy if my remains nourish

the grass above me, but perhaps that just me.

>I think the belief in reincarnation is a

>kind of Western disease - greed!

>

>Born again. (ups)

>

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