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Do we only have one chance?

I was watching a Bones rerun, and Bones said "Infinity goes both ways, and everything comes around again. Nothing happens just once. You always have another chance." What do you think?

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You all have completely lost me ;) xo

First, I don't know...but I would like to think that this all is for more than I could ever dream possible. I really want to believe that the lessons that I'm learning won't be for naught. I mean l@@k ... seems we are passing along all the learned/material/research/stuff...seems we should be 'in' some of it, huh? I've heard about the 'pain body' that is passed from one generation to the next. There seems some truth in this, too. When you think about all you CAN experience in a lifetime and the impact that SOME have had on our planet...not that we ALL don't have an impact...it would seem that we live on and on and on...ya know?

@kensho1111 "While I am not a Hindu" Oh, silly! Haven't you heard? Everyone's a Hindu (depending on the Hindu, natch). { ;

Is a circle not infinite? No beginning and no end?

it is a tricky question. I think we will never come as ourselves in this particular choice chamber again. even if we be again, with exact choice chain of ours as this one, other parties wont probably be in the same choice chain so it wont still be same. we will hardly be in exact chain of choice and effect-consequence structure that we are in now. so it is one chance in a way.

I think we must assume given the data that this is our one and only life, and act accordingly.

Yes. You create as many chances as you want. Stinks the odds aren't always good though.

I think we are creating what we want here. Whether it is a lesson or a reward, we can create it again and again. So, I wouldn't say "comes around" cause that sounds like I am on a merry go round that someone else is pushing. But I would say we have more than one chance.

You have plenty of chances, more than you know. It just comes back at you in a different form.

There is an absence of evidence that you have another chance. As for: "Infinity goes both ways, and everything comes around again." Not always so: Choose an integer. Add one to it. This number is greater than your number. Continue adding one forever. Try as you might, your original integer will never reappear. Note also that infinity in this case has an origin, and so extends in only one direction. It does not go both ways. The statement, therefore, is logically unsound. The cyclic definition of infinity has been arbitrarily invoked to support unrelated speculation.

i suppose it depends on the magnitude of the issue. will i ever be able to say goodbye to my grandmother again? no. will i fall in love again? yes. will great leader come into power? yes will sub par leader destroy their predecessors progress? yes. there are irreversible moments. but the thought of missing a once in a life time opportunity terrifies me. i choose to believe that nothing happens once. even if i know its an impossibility.

Nice one, Pontiff, love! This has always been my biggest dilemma with choice; namely the potential 'karmic'/cause-effect cycle left dormant by the 'road not travelled.' What 'fills' that gap in potentiality? One theory I have is that the vast variance within our collective humanity fills all states of choice-potential. What you have described is sort of an abbreviated version of another theory regarding the 'void of choice.' Love this topic and am curious what others have to say about it.

...that said, we've worked our way up through countless stages/species of life and have FINALLY attained a human body. This is the topmost body to have in the material world. Don't waste it! ;)

We should live our lives as if we only have one shot, but I don't believe in a God that only gives us one chance. As a practicing Hindu, I do believe in karma. What the average person doesn't understand about this concept is that any progress you make in this life, even if you don't get it fully "right" and you do come back, that past progress is NOT diminished---you don't go back to zero (so to speak). You pick up where you left off and continue on your way. That, my friend, is a loving God.

Hi, Pope Skippy. It's very hard, like asking a fish in a fishbowl to describe the world it's living in. Atheists are like that fish. Any lengthy investigation into Life - why,where, how- seems a futile endeavor to them. They just rather not think about it. I feel that it does go on, we are a point of light in this conscious oneness, infinite - yet living in pieces.

I agree. There's a cyclic nature to everything, including human existence (interpreting "You always have another chance" literally).

@PopeSkippyXVI ...waiting for this, too, to pass...

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You all have completely lost me ;) xo

@kensho1111 "While I am not a Hindu" Oh, silly! Haven't you heard? *Everyone's* a Hindu (depending on the Hindu, natch). { ;

Is a circle not infinite? No beginning and no end?

I think we must assume given the data that this is our one and only life, and act accordingly.

Yes. You create as many chances as you want. Stinks the odds aren't always good though.

I think we are creating what we want here. Whether it is a lesson or a reward, we can create it again and again. So, I wouldn't say "comes around" cause that sounds like I am on a merry go round that someone else is pushing. But I would say we have more than one chance.

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...that said, we've worked our way up through countless stages/species of life and have FINALLY attained a human body. This is the topmost body to have in the material world. Don't waste it! ;)

I agree. There's a cyclic nature to everything, including human existence (interpreting "You always have another chance" literally).

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