Past lives

**LieutenatG^** · February 22nd, 2013, 10:45 AM

These fields will soon scientificly explore our past lives the way we decoded the genome for our lives today.
What wonders will we discover about ourselves when this happens?

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**Dywyddyr** · February 22nd, 2013, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by LieutenatG^

These fields will soon scientificly explore our past lives the way we decoded the genome for our lives today.

What makes you think we had "past lives"?
Or do you mean "how humans lived in the past"?
In which case "soon" is a slight underestimate as they've been doing it for decades.

**Lynx_Fox** · February 22nd, 2013, 11:05 AM

The AAP subforum is reserved for serious scientific discussion. Moved.

**LieutenatG^** · February 22nd, 2013, 11:20 AM

The archioligst and palentoligist and all will soon be scientifically renumerating our past lives even if such a thing is not real they will create a solution that proves it's reality to ourselves and we will find out all kinds of new things about ourselves. Kind of like how astrological signifigance before the Big Bang is relevant to us.

**Dywyddyr** · February 22nd, 2013, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by LieutenatG^

The archioligst and palentoligist and all will soon be scientifically renumerating our past lives even if such a thing is not real they will create a solution that proves it's reality to ourselves and we will find out all kinds of new things about ourselves.

What?
"Even if it's not real" ¹ they'll "create a solution" that proves it's real? Science is not in the business of proving things, much less proving falsehoods.

Kind of like how astrological signifigance before the Big Bang is relevant to us.

There is
A) no significance (or relevance) to astrology
B) no astrology (or anything) before the Big Bang that is "relevant" to us.

1 It's not real.

**LieutenatG^** · February 22nd, 2013, 11:43 AM

They will develop the model much like they did for the atom and molecule

**Dywyddyr** · February 22nd, 2013, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by LieutenatG^

They will develop the model much like they did for the atom and molecule

A model for what?
Based on what?

**AlexG** · February 22nd, 2013, 01:36 PM

Move this to the Trash.

NOW!

**tk421** · February 22nd, 2013, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by LieutenatG^

They will develop the model much like they did for the atom and molecule

Construction of scientific models for the atom and model have relied on things like experimental evidence. As there is zero reliable evidence for "past lives," you are making several wild leaps of logic.

Ponder this: Why is it that almost everyone claiming to have had a past life experience was Cleopatra or King of Sumeria or some such person? No one ever says "I cleaned toilets for Mussolini's barber's CPA." Could reports of past lives be...unreliable?

**Dywyddyr** · February 22nd, 2013, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by tk421

No one ever says "I cleaned toilets for Mussolini's barber's CPA."

Wow, recognition at last! I lived next door to that guy in my previous life! ¹

1 But I was Cleopatra AND King of Sumeria in the life before that.

**SpeedFreek** · February 22nd, 2013, 08:19 PM

What you have to look at here is the history of the worlds population (there is a lot of research into this), and if there was ever a time when there were more people alive on Earth than people who had lived before that. In that particular time, how could everyone alive have had a past life?

**Neverfly** · February 23rd, 2013, 07:05 AM

In a past life, I was a genius, that brought about a great many influential ideas.

God decided, this time around, to try something different...

**Flick Montana** · February 23rd, 2013, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by SpeedFreek

What you have to look at here is the history of the worlds population (there is a lot of research into this), and if there was ever a time when there were more people alive on Earth than people who had lived before that. In that particular time, how could everyone alive have had a past life?

Duh. Limbo. My model will prove this.

**SpeedFreek** · February 23rd, 2013, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Flick Montana

Originally Posted by SpeedFreek

What you have to look at here is the history of the worlds population (there is a lot of research into this), and if there was ever a time when there were more people alive on Earth than people who had lived before that. In that particular time, how could everyone alive have had a past life?

Duh. Limbo. My model will prove this.

That could possibly be the case if more people were alive before, than the number alive at a certain time, but what about when the situation was reversed and there were more people alive than had gone before? Were they sharing the same past lives?