Reincarnation

There are always some kinds of strange thoughts pop-up on my mind since my childhood. I used to share this with elders, but they seemed to be freaked out and talked seriously to my parents that kid’s thoughts were wild; they needed to pay more attention. Well, later I’m no longer that confessional to them as I used to be. Those thoughts could be only lighted up to its believers, if they don’t understand, why bother to tell?

I believe there’s a house-elf around my house when I was very young. I believe there are really wizards and witches out there, although Hagrit forgot me when I was turning 11 years old, obviously. I believe plants can talk, since I dream of them talking a lot. I also believe in reincarnation, that people have some kind of notion of an eternal soul.

But it changed side one day.

On that day, I watched a movie and a man in it was very doubtful about reincarnation. Then he came up with his theories and it persuaded me. As he thought, 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there’s like 2,000,000 people on the planet. Now, there’s between 5 and 6 billion people on the planet. If we all have our own, individual, unique soul, where do they all come from? Are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? If they are, that represents a 5,000-to-1 split of each soul in just the last 50,000 years, which is like a blip in the earth’s time. So, at best, we are probably like these tiny fractions of people, maybe even scattered in some way…

His explanation makes much sense to me, since using an assumption about figures and data to form persuasive evidence. His theory is a completely refresh to the normal thoughts coming along with reincarnation, since it’s always related to religion, theology… while on his side, it’s just thinking in a logic way to raise a contradiction. In this way, his persuasion is more effective since it avoids collisions directly against normal belief about reincarnation. It doesn’t oppose the common value straightforwardly, instead, in a tricky way.

Does it convince you?!