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I don't hold with reincarnation. If you look at the numbers, there are more people alive today than have ever lived at the same time before - so where do all these new souls come from? Animals? Are there fewer animals alive today than there were all those years ago? What about before there were animals? Where did all those souls come from then? And if we are all supposed to progress from an animal existence, to human being, and then on to something else, will there be a time when all the souls have 'climbed up the bridge' and are inhabiting human/pre-transcendental bodies? i.e. Will we one day live in a world with no animals, because we've all overcome/or about to overcome our karmic baggage?
The answer to the above questions, for me, has to suggest that reincarnation is a fiction. I'd be happy for someone to show me where I might have made a mistake, but until the numbers make sense, or someone explains the mechanics to a satisfactory level, I will remain unwilling to accept the concept of reincarnation.
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