A thought just side swiped me: In all the wars - in all the accidents - whats the mortality number that we know of. Does anyone have a round about idea?

So what did Nanner just do. I googled "worlds mortality" and the first website was this:
http://www.biblehelp.org/mortality.htm

Scared the living crap out of me when I opened it. Theres an automatic counter that starts up counting the people whom "die - as long as you have the website open".. I freaked and closed it real quick, being as dumbfounded as I believe to be, I thought I was the cause of those deaths... Whew, wipe sweat off my forhead. I´ll not do that one again.

I guess they have it there for "awareness purposes" - but whew, don`t snaggle scare me like that again.

I still would like an answer to my intial question:
How many souls do you think have departed from our earth?

Love,
Nanner

This is a tricky question, Nanner-

The easy part is to look at the world and estimate that we have about 3.5E9 people hanging onto the planet by their toenails. "All the rest" have died. The population curve is an exponential n=2^(t/33) for time t in years -  but I don't know where in time we'd start to fit it to get a good regression, so instead my guess is that  "all the rest" is probably on the order of the prior generation, about 1.7E9.

The tricky part is to ask how many cycles through the cosmic knothole each soul makes. If every soul makes 10 trips through life between the initial entry as as new soul and final passage as an enlightened being not required to do it again, then only one tenth of those presently alive are newcomers, and the rest are just the milling crowd. So how to count them? They live and die, but they do it numerous times.

The next question is whether or not we just keep on recycling, with only a very few able to drop out of the circle. In that case, nobody has really died, because they're just off stage, but are already in the return loop. Then the question would be the number who have managed to escape, which comes down to a few percent. Except they have escaped into life, while the rest of us still rotate from death to death.

In fact, as we start to think of it in this manner the next question is whether this life into which we are born and which ends in death is really life, or is the afterlife that starts in death and ends in birth actually life, or is there a third option involving purple smoke and mirrors?

dave

Okay Dave and everybody,
Lets use the number which can be found in Wikipedia:

6,671,226,000   lived as of July 1, 2007    being 100%

We know that "nobody" really died, however I am trying to find out how many approx. number of souls have "checked out" of this Hotel California called earth as of that date above then, even if for 1 sec. and even if hinse to return for a second run for insanity...lol..

Forget all the other x possibilites.

Come on, you math wizes - do your stuff!  ;) Lets work together an be creative.

According to most of what I have read it boils down to 33% splitt 3 ways.
1 33% Part is suppose to go to a neighboring planet,
1 33% Part returns to the ajoining realms,
1 33% Part is to stay here on earth.
Donno where the remaining 1% ends up.. :-/

Hugs, hugs, hugs,
Nanner

My calculator doesnt go that high..uuuuuuug  >:(

So whats the number totaling from 33% of 6,671,226,000?