Don't mistake me for a Buddhist, I'm not one. I'm an independent thinker that happens to be exploring Buddhism in depth now. I don't agree with popular Buddhism, and the idea that praying or chanting for good Karma for you and your family actually works. I don't see how, in Tibetan Buddhism, spinning a prayer wheel "acrrus merit" (if there are 100-million mantras written inside, then one spin equals chanting 100-million mantras, which improves the Karma of not just the spinner, but everything in the environment around it).
And I only believe in reincarnation as a metaphor, not as objective reality.
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Of course you should believe in reincarnation... After people die, the elements from the body is released to the environment, in the form of carbon dioxide, di-hydrogen oxide, etc.. These compounds/elements could be trapped again in another plant, animal, or even a piece of rock. So after they die, the person become part of something else.... If you consider geological/volcanic activities, even rocks can rebirth (think carbon cycle). -- By now, you might think I am nuts.
No, I don't think you are nuts. Trust me, I've already considered the natural "re-birth" of elements from one form into other forms and entities. But reincarnation in the religious sense is about the rebirth of the soul, and the consiousness.
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