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Is reincarnation a mathematical impossibility?

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From personal experience, I can testify that we only have one chance to live
and at the end, we meet God face to face.

See, back in 1986, I was in a car accident that put me in a coma for around three weeks.
The doctor's stated that I had less than a 5% chance of living and that the left side of my brain was clinically dead.  When I got to the hospital, they called my mom and my mom called
the Pastor of my church.  My pastor was at a Christian convention with 10,000 other people,
but his son was at home an answered the phone.  He called out to the convention in a city
that was 70 miles away, and they put my name on the screen for all 10,000 people to pray.

My Pastor came over to the hospital, visiting me three or more times a week.
The doctors told him my brain was rotated by 1.5 degrees and shifted by a couple of centimeters.
He prayed for me and had to remove his hands since my head became to hot.
He had the nurses feel my head, and they agreed it was quite warm.
Next time they scanned my brain, it was back where it should be.

When the doctors brought interns around to my room, they gave me as an example to them
that not everyone follows what they think should happen.  I'm practically ambidextrous,
which has a part in the story, but mainly I trust in the Lord.  I though I was left
handed when I was growing, but now realize that I wrote left handed, but did several
other things with my right hand.  Now I use either hand to do almost everything, even
writing, though my right hand writes about as well as a sixth grader right now.

It is now I can testify that we all only have one choice - trust in Jesus Christ
or prepare to meet the Devil for eternity.  I have a file with a list of miracles
that have happened to me since then.  I also have a couple of dozen pages in over
a dozen files that I am working open.

Among what God has done is have 10,000 people pray for me just after the accident, wake me up on Sunday morning during prayer time at church, keep the car from the gas pump that was within inches of where it stopped, answered a 24 prayer vigil outside my room, let me have my sister and wife in the room when I woke up (they just happened to choose the right 5 minute interval out of 2 hours when I woke up), healed my head, lungs, arms, and legs through prayer on many occasions, and much more.

I have been giving over 10% of what we make to the church and God has been more than providing that much to us in sales and keeping what we own operating smoothly.

As one example in the hospital, on a Friday after I had awoken from my coma, they were doing vowels pronunciation with me.  On Monday, I started in with them for awhile, and then I said, “This is stupid.  Why are we doing this?”  They were amazed I could talk after being in a coma with extensive brain damage.

Now the left side of my brain was declared clinically dead, but that is the side where math is done.  Also, I have felt incredible warmth in that side in particular on several occasions, particularly when I start writing to others about this.

So after all that, I say reincarnation is not possible, but resurection power through Jesus Christ is very true.

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I can answer any question in general math, arithetic, discret math, algebra, box problems, geometry, filling a tank with water, trigonometry, pre-calculus, linear algebra, complex mathematics, probability, statistics, and most of anything else that relates to math. I can even tell you it takes me over 2,000 steps to go a mile, but is that relevant?

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Master of Science at OSU with high honors in mathematics. Bachelor of Science at OSU with high honors in mathematical sciences. This degree involved mathematics, statistics, and computer science. I also took sophmore level physics and chemistry while I was attending college. On the side I took raquetball, but that's still not relevant.

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I earned high honors in both my BS degree and MS degree from Oregon State. I was in near the top in most of my classes. In several classes in mathematics, I was first. In a class of over 100 students, I was always one of the first ones to complete the test. I graduated with well over 50 credits in upper division mathematics.

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