# Reincarnation **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 30, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716 "2003-12-30T05:50:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/121 "2004-01-02T23:50:25Z")
Actually, **Question** you are still thinking too 3-dimensionally. Our waveform or “soul” is created at the intersection of our conception time and galactic position. BUT, it is also anchored to a point in sub-space AND parallel universe Beta. It is also weakly anchored to our physical presence on a quantum level. All this causes a kind of stretching/expansion which I call “zinning”(also a noun). Most people who do not try hard to penetrate the fog see it as a standing wave. Some, like yourself, have half peaked to see the zinning and percieve it as collapsing. This is because of the lensing effect of looking through dimension shifts. In actuality it is building in strength and maintaining the point links. At death it snaps in infinate directions, some pieces acting as seed crystals for other wave function start ups. Thus you can see that knowledge of this true form of reincarnation is not useful. It has not been shown that building a better zinning actually produces better seed functions. That’s my theory and, as we are of one mind, yours as well. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/122 "2004-01-03T00:12:29Z")
You have it backwards, Carnal. The human soul is is _created_ at the intersection of sub-space and parallel universe Beta, and only _anchored_ to conception time and galactic posiiton. It’s a common mistake, but making it completely invalidates any claim you might have on logical consistancy for all eternity throughout the multiverse, and for your descendants, too. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/123 "2004-01-03T00:24:16Z")
I’m glad to know that Doc Cathode had graduate students to carry forward his work! ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/124 "2004-01-03T01:17:58Z")
I’m sorry **Bryan Ekers** , your post is invalidated by your lack of the word “quantum”. I almost made the same mistake. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/125 "2004-01-03T04:15:12Z")
Where is the rightfully esteemed **Doc Cathode**? ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/126 "2004-01-03T08:08:20Z")
Shall we have a Great Debate here or are we turning this thing into a joke thread? 😃 Either way is fine by me, just trying to plan ahead a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/127 "2004-01-03T14:24:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CarnalK \* > \*\*I’m sorry **Bryan Ekers** , your post is invalidated by your lack of the word “quantum”. I almost made the same mistake. \*\* Well _I’m_ sorry but everybody knows that “quantum” is passé. Get out of the stone age, already! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/128 "2004-01-03T14:34:13Z")
I’d just like to note that AOL’s previous existence was under the corporate name of Quantum Computer Services, Inc. So in terms of “legal persons” there is a connection between “quantium” and “reincarnation” – or at least _reincorporation_! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/129 "2004-01-03T19:42:21Z")
> [@](#): > > _Brian Ekers said:_\* > Get out of the stone age, already! All time is one so I can’t really “get out of the stone age”. 😉 But really, debate is pointless as I have decided that everything you say backs me up. **cityboy** I vote for extended satirical commentary. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/130 "2004-01-03T22:44:10Z")
The only debate left is whether **Question** found this website by Googling for “dope.” FISH Quantum. Oh what a giveaway! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/131 "2004-01-03T23:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CarnalK \* > \*\*But really, debate is pointless as I have decided that everything you say backs me up. \*\* Ah, but everything _you_ say only adds strength to _my_ position, since your anger only proves I’m onto something you don’t want the world to know. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/132 "2004-01-04T08:45:39Z")
Well since we’re just goofing around here, it occurred to me to ask why the skeptic side of these types of debates favor an invisible pink unicorn in particular. Applying Jungian style psychoanalysis, the unicorn, with its single horn, is a masculine archetype. The horn is a phallic symbol. Now since it is a pink unicorn, and the color pink is typically associated with the female gender, we find that the idea of a pink unicorn encapsulates both the masculine and feminine in one being - it’s androgynous. So the question remains… why did your people choose a pink unicorn of all things? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/133 "2004-01-04T15:44:05Z")
> [@](#): > > **Brian said** > Ah, but everything you say only adds strength to my position, since your anger only proves I’m onto something you don’t want the world to know. I appreciate your support. 😉 > [@](#): > > **cityboy916 asked:** > So the question remains… why did your people choose a pink unicorn of all things? Atheists are drawn to the unicorn like moths to a flame. Noone’s sure if it’s a true inner calling or external conditioning. Also, if it were visible I’m sure the Unicorn would be an impressive figure. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/134 "2004-01-04T15:51:02Z")
Apologies on the name mis-spell, **Bryan Ekers**. I correct it here to aid in any future vanity searches. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/135 "2004-01-04T17:42:40Z")
That’s okay. Only people with no sensitivity of anything mystic, psychic or paranormal spell it “Brian”. I knew you’d give yourself away eventually. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/136 "2004-01-04T20:10:50Z")
I admit I was thinking “Life of Brian”. Now how did I mix you up? ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/137 "2004-01-04T20:26:15Z")
{channeling} James the Randy promised me money my father told me a period belongs at the end of my sentence [FONT=century gothic]trauma trauma trauma but the judge. but said my sentence will be a period iranians need 95% of my randi (a-ha!) money am i reincarnatedstupid yet?[/FONT] {/channeling} ---
**Author:** ![IWLN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IWLN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IWLN)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716/138 "2004-01-04T21:22:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CarnalK \* > Atheists are drawn to the unicorn like moths to a flame. Noone’s sure if it’s a true inner calling or external conditioning. Also, if it were visible I’m sure the Unicorn would be an impressive figure. Inner calling, I don’t know? I’m not atheist and I’m still kind of fond of the IPU. He came up soooo often when I first got to SDMB that I kind of feel like he’s family. And they do taste just like quantum chicken, too. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reincarnation/221716.md?page=6)