In message <[log in to unmask]>, Steve Dirickson <[log in to unmask]> writes >> But taking your point where it does apply, at the >> atomic/molecular level, >> you should now see a difficulty with reincarnation. All the >> atoms that ever >> were, are, apart from a few we lost in atomic explosions. So >> we haven't >> gained any. And maybe a few atoms in my body were once in >> Julius Caesar's >> body? SO if we are both reincarnated, who gets them? > >I do. In fact, I've already got them--you'll both have to look >elsewhere. But why is that a problem? Atoms is atoms. Oops, sorry, brain fart - I was thinking of resurrection (when we *would* all want our atoms back, or at least a complete set just like them). Obviously reincarnation is fine - we *are* all made from the atoms on the Earth, whether we were here before or not...... -- Roy Brown 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be Kelmscott Ltd useful, or believe to be beautiful' William Morris * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *