For a while now I've been saying that no matter what we may believe, either God is real or He isn't, which is a 50-50 chance, and if God is real then so is eternity, and from a sheer survival standpoint I don't know if I'd gamble my eternal soul on those odds by not joining the good side. A one-in-two chance is fairly serious but easy to understand, although in theory anyway there are two other possibilities.
One is reincarnation. I don't believe in it because the Good Book says that it is appointed for us to die but once. It could very well be true though, especially if God isn't real, and there's compelling evidence to support it.
There are no telling how many stories of so-called past-life regression, where people, often but not always under hypnosis, recall past events in great detail and know things that they shouldn't. It might seem like a slam-dunk to support the idea of reincarnation, except for the possible demon factor.
Demons, if they're real, are true shapeshifters. They can appear as anything they want, animal, mineral or vegetable. They're vastly superior to humans in strength and intelligence. They're immortal and they remember everything. They can easily implant false memories and such.
It's just one possibility, but again there's a 50-50 chance it's real. If the Devil is real, he'll do everything he can to turn people away from the biblical narrative, and the idea of reincarnation is a perfect way to do it. It directly contradicts God's word.
When I take the biblical thing away, the idea of reincarnation still seems weird. What, is there like a waiting room where people sit around reading magazines, or maybe on their phones as they wait for another life to begin? Then they're turned back into newborns? How does that work?
As I understand it the purpose of reincarnation is to come back better each time, and make up for the bad stuff we did in our last life, until eventually we come back as cows. I mean, I love cows, but it's kind of a weird idea. The problem is that probably 99.9% of us don't have memories of past lives, so what's the point?
Over the last decade or so people in general have become exponentially more heartless, selfish and even evil. We're becoming worse, not better. If reincarnation is real, it's certainly not working properly right now. I wonder if the cow population is decreasing.
It's like what I wonder about Karma...is there an official scorekeeper? I don't believe in reincarnation but it could absolutely be real. If there is an afterlife I think we'll get the answers to all these questions, but if there's no afterlife then we won't, and it won't matter anyway.
The other possibility is that we exist in a computer simulation and we're not real. This theory sounds out-to-lunch, but the people who propose it are MIT professors and such...the scientific elite, so the possibility has to at least be considered.
To think that a computer simulation could be so complex as to give us our own thoughts, make us able to create art and music but also able to hurt each other and everything else is mind-boggling, and as I've cleverly said before, they must have one hell of a buffering system. I don't believe it either but it's a fascinating idea and it could also very well be true.
If this theory is true then I'm sure they're able to inject different conditions into the game, good or bad. If we're really just a simulation on some Alien hard drive then they sure have thrown a monkey wrench into the program. Things on this planet have certainly been better. Maybe Peace on Earth is boring.
These two possibilities exist, although they don't carry as much weight as the idea that God is real or not. If you include these two theories then you could say that there's only a one-in-four chance that God is real, but I wouldn't play those odds either.
In two of these theories nothing matters and there are no consequences for our actions. If there's no God or an afterlife then nothing extends after our biological lives. If we're a simulation then one day it'll be GAME OVER and nothing we did will matter either. With the other two theories, the things we do matter very much.
If reincarnation is real then I suppose I want to be a cow. If I do one day become a cow, I hope I'm reincarnated in India and not at a slaughterhouse in Texas.
If God is real then the choices we make will decide where we spend eternity. I choose to believe in God, and not just from a survival standpoint. I love Him and I believe that He's blessed me in many, many ways. I see evidence of His creation every day, and I also see evidence of an evil one who wants to destroy it.
Either A, God is real, or B, He's not, or C, we eventually become cows or D, we're just a computer simulation. Does one thing make more sense? Are we just ones and zeros? Are we just dust in the wind? Are we future cows? Are we children of God? I guess it depends on our beliefs and how we see things. I choose A. Have a nice day. Mooooooooooooooooooooo.
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