Reincarnation

So today I was in my beloved philosophy class......oh dear; that's all i have to say. We discussed this week about the soul and body and how the brain and mind are two different things and so on. All I have to say is my professor has a pretty interesting philosophy up his sleeve. Today he presented an argument that just appalled me; I was stunned that someone who was so smart would actually believe something so crazy.
This is his argument of soul and body union: Your soul exists before you were born, so you can have thoughts before you were born because the soul and mind are the same thing. When you are born, the body and soul crashes together and become one. If the body remembers something from the soul's "past life" then the soul and body did not crash hard enough. When you remember things throughout life, it is a result of doing things consistently in the souls "past life". When the body dies, the soul separates and keeps living, waiting to inhabit another body.
WEIRD! When he was done, all I could do to keep from laughing was to smile. He sensed that I was not satisfied with his view and asked what I thought of it. HA! If he only knew :) Of course I thought it was absolutely bogus, and stated my point....
You cannot have thoughts before you were born, you cant even remember things from when you were two. So the whole body soul crashing thing; yeah, that's a little strange. We remember things because we are taught things and our brain and muscles store it. Our souls do have an after life, but it does not involve inhabiting another being; it involves existing in either heaven or hell. I proposed my view, and he did not agree with all of it. I did not expect him to accept all of it, but he did say that some of it may be proven to be somewhat correct at some point in time. Just another day in the life :)