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It cannot. It is a theist belief. This is from the Puranas. Find faults in the Advaita view (non0duality), if you can. Vedas had a completely different scheme than what I have mentioned. They did not have reincarnation. Theirs was an Indo-Europian belief as the Norse or Vikings had. Ancestors...

No evidence.

:) Chat-GPT: "Life is characterized by the ability to grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, and adapt to the environment. Living organisms, from single-celled bacteria to complex multicellular beings like humans, share these fundamental traits." Chat-GPT: You seem to have forgotten vegetation...

Kabir said: "Tune rāt bitāyī soy ke, divas bitāyā khāy, hīra janam amol thā, kaurī badle jāy." (You have spent your nights in sleep, and days in eating; this birth was a priceless diamond, you are selling it for a cowrie shell.)

:) Theist Hinduism has nearly all answers: 1. Not just humans but all bugs and ameba too, all life. 2. Yes, we do. But it is not in our hands. Gods decide it based on our 'karmas'. 3. They say 8.4 million times (Lakh Chaurasi). That is the figure they give for types of life. 4. Only Gods know or...

Non-duality (Advaita) is a very simple and scientific idea that all things in the universe arose of the energy at the time of Big Bang (no exclusions - humans, animals, vegetation or non-living substances). Therefore, there is no space of any God/Gods/Goddesses in it. The basic implication is...

The superstitious people in his time were not ready for the full blast of his belief. Most people are not ready for it even today. It takes a lot of courage to accept Buddha's views or Advaita (non-duality). Yes, Buddha used parables but was actually wholly different in comparison to Jesus...

Buddha did not believe in past or future lives (anatta - non-substantiality). He used it only to explain things to lay people. Mahayana is not Buddha's Buddhism.

It is not nihilistic. Buddha was definitely not a nihilist. Simply said, it means returning to the environment. You were Brahman, you are Brahman, what constitutes you will still be Brahman even when you are no more. That is "Tat twam asi" (That is what you are - Chandogya Upanishad, the second...

I wish that happens to me. I was always slim and active, now I have some lower-abdomen fat, and I am bothered by it. I know it is because of lack of exercise and sitting before a computer.

Perhaps not at the moment. He may have limitations timewise and healthwise. It will be nice if we can just do away with the current homepage and make the forum page as the homepage. Many other forums do that.

Happens many a times with us old people. I normally forget where I kept my specs or matchbox (I do not use lighters, old habits die hard).

Before you can say 'now', it is past. There is no now. World changes with every Planck's interval - 5.39 × 10 raised to −44 s. Such is the evanescent world.

This is an impermanent, non-substantial world. Anicca, Anatta. Two magic words in Buddhism. Buddha said: Once a person dies, he is really completely gone, even Indra and Brahma cannot find him. 'Gone with the wind'. "Gate, gate, paragate, parsamagate."

Of course, I mentioned my views. I have no problem with differing views. As I said my family and the whole of our small community is theist. I am the only one with atheist views. But that is OK in Hinduism.

Have you informed them? Is that what is done in the US. Here it is a chancy thing. My son forgot mobile phone in a plane, The airway never found it.

No, IMHO. People die without realizing the reality. Does not make much difference in life. Because even after finding or getting close to reality, persons will die.

I think so. Does any of the molecules in the body dies with death? Generally, just an old car which refuses to start, many of its components fail and we do not have the technology to restart it. Or sometimes it is a good enough car which gets involved in accidents and becomes useless.

Mind's journeys.

The moment you say 'soul', you are being unscientific. Do you have any evidence for existence of soul in humans or animals? Mind is OK. Thought experiments. RigVeda indulged into one such thought experiment: 1. THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it...