CrazyJulio said:

Do you believe in them? 

I, for one, do.  How do you rationalize the fact that there's 6+ billion people living now, and in much older times maybe only a few million people were around?  Perhaps at one time each life was separated by a longer period of time, and now the time between lives is getting smaller and smaller?  In the past, we lived lives as either animals or as aliens on distant planets?

In either circumstance, they are many more people living now than were thousands of years ago.  Why is this?  What is significant about now that warrants so much human life?  Is there some destination that we are striving towards?  How are there more and more people who (presumably) have past lives when the actual number of lives on Earth leading up to this point was less?

If many past lives were spent as alien life forms or animals, why are so many more now living as humans?  Will we ever run out of souls to inhabit our bodies, or are there a vast, infinite sea of them?  Perhaps we are all one, and every time the spark of life is ignited, we all get diluted just a little bit more.

If we are striving towards something, what is it?  Multiplication?  A higher consciousness?  The end?  When will our goal reveal itself, or happen?

What do you think is the reason for living multiple lives?  Can you carry knowledge or wisdom with you?  Is living here just for the fun of it, or do we have goals (predetermined or otherwise) that we are meant to accomplish in each lifetime?

On a semi related note, have you ever met someone that you felt strongly familiar with, but you can't explain why?  Have you ever thought about who you were or what you may have done in past lives?  Was I a famous mathematician, a greek warrior, or just some random dude?  Does the concept of self have any meaning at all when dealing with past lives?  I haven't the slightest idea who I am.  I have a name, it means nothing.

Do you think that if you are mortal enemies with someone in one life, that that energy will follow you into other lives?  What about relationships (family, friend, romantic or otherwise)?

Lastly, do you think you have a purpose or purposes?  Do you know what they are, or have an idea?

Personally, I think I'm here to learn, enjoy the beauty of Earth and my time here (even something so mundane as a sky is really magnificently beautiful.  There really isn't one natural creation that I can look at and say, "That doesn't impress me."), advance my consciousness and strive towards enlightenment as much as I will (that I probably will never become enlightened is of no consequence to me) and then die.  Though, in retrospect, those goals sound kind of selfish.

Sorry for all the questions 

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PuZuZu said:

but what about suicide? wouldn't this disrupt the chain of death and life to enlightenment?

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