Alright I know this may sound incredibly insane, but I don't want to ascend! Ascending means coming that much closer to completing your journey on Earth and ascending to the after life. I don't want to do this. I honestly prefer Earth. It's beautiful with it's vast cities, tall mountains, lovely country side and beautiful oceans. I don't know what the after life is like for those who ascend and I honestly don't want to know! Prancing about on a cloud and everyone being goody goody to me sounds rather boring! I need variety! I need spice! I'd rather not ascend and just stay here forever! Is there anyway that I can possibly do that? Sinning? Gambling? Committing atrocious mean spirited acts towards my fellow humans? What?! How do I stay? While I'm at it I honestly don't want to be reincarnated after death! I don't want to become somebody else! I may not be perfect and sometimes I wish I was more beautiful, more popular and more talented. However I love the family I have now and I don't want to forget them, lose them or move on to another one. Even if I find a way to stay here and not ascend I'll keep being reincarnated. Is there anywa y that I can be reincarnated into the same family? It's not that I hate change. Some changes are good. I would just hate these. I want to stay on Earth and stay with the family I have now. Can any of you honestly tell me that you've never been scared?

After you finished grade 1 in school, you went on to grade 2.  Remember the excitement of a whole new year of learning and growing in this new adventure.  That is life!  

To remain is to be stuck and stagnant.  Growth requires change.  And life is all about change.  

You grow, you move, you become.  See the adventure, enter into its message of hope and love.  Ideas of the afterlife will help you see life is progressive even beyond death.

Which might be fine for you, but I prefer to stay. I don't want growth if it means losing my current family. I don't want growth if it means losing who I currently am. I don't want growth if it means leaving this plane. I've also read that you have a choice of if you come back to Earth. If you do have a choice then I will continue to come back. If this means that I am perpetually stuck in "grade 1" then so be it.

Furthermore what kind of idiot would honestly want to be reincarnated? To ascend? To "grow"? Especially if it means losing the essence of who you currently are or losing the wonderful family that you currently possess?! Doesn't it scare anyone in the least that you won't remember? That your family will no longer be your family? That you will no longer be you? I hate change. I always have and I always will. I'm not your standard Sagittarius. I know. So my question is do you think there is a way to stop "growing" and simply remain yourself?[/list]

I view those who accept it as simply lambs who follow blindly. Most everyone says the same of Christians, but what the religions who believe in reincarnation don't realize is that it is as bad as the Hell that the Christians believe in. You don't lose your soul to the fiery depths of eternal torture, no. But you do lose yourself as you "ascend". You forget who and what you are and were! You forget your family, your friends, your likes, dislikes and everything that simply makes you you! And you follow along blindly, knowing what's coming but just accepting it! Just because a religion states something doesn't make it right or moral! The Christians stated that thou shall not suffer a witch to live, but that did not make it right! What they put those people through is torture and that is precisely what this is! Torture of the soul and the mind! When I did practice Christianity I never was this scared, not even of Hell! I did what I wanted to do because that was simply who I was! But religions with reincarnation scare me, because what I fear most is losing myself! Everything that makes me me! You call it a fear of change, but I call it sensible and normal! You should want to remain as you are! Yes, you can work on bettering yourself but your quirks, your actions, your personality, your likes and dislikes are what make you unique! They are what make you you and without your family you would have never been shaped into the you that you are now! So losing them... losing yourself... it's just unthinkable..