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Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie
Okay, I read your opening post and a couple of your proceeding posts (geez, you have a lot to say on the matter) buy I saw nothing that hinted at why reincarnation is likely. I mean you gave some reasons, but they wern't what I would call imperial and were based on your own personal feelings rather than any evidence.
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Imperial? You mean empirical? No, this is NOT an empirical argument. It is a conservative argument. The reason I reject empiricism is because, strictly speaking, nothing is objective. Every event you witness has to pass through your sense-processing mental equipment. By the time you are able to reflect on it, it is a subjective experience. It has been shown that memories are largely fiction the older and more detailed they are. So empiricism a good measuring stick for ontological and epistemological arguments? I say no.
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But I'm not belittling your opinion or the method that led to it. I tend to trust my feelings above my senses or 'logical' mind too. I just don't believe that my or anybody elses thoughts or feelings and necessarily a reflection of the ultimate reality. I think we all live in our own little reality tunnels and the world we perceive and experience is largely the world we create in our tiny little heads. Indeed I sometimes think it's a wonder we can communicate with each other at all.
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I'm inclined to agree. My argument is constructed not to rely on crystal clear recollections because I don't believe these exist for the most part--only that we have memories, maybe not very clear or accurate, but we have them.