Buddhism's Reincarnation and The Law of Relativity

I used to be a believer of Reincarnation. Reincarnation is a magic bullet in Buddhism that can dismiss any inconsistencies in Karma. It is also a powerful mechanism that can bounce all responsibilities back to yourself. Why aren't all bad deeds seen repaid in this life? Simple, it will be done so in the next life. Why does he enjoy everything in the world while he hasn't done anything imaginably good? Because his past life was saintly. You won a lottery? Well done, you offered a meal to a monk in a past life. You broke your leg? Too bad, you asked for it, who asked you to be a bully before you was born. A nice final stroke here is that without practice, one cannot observe this series of disconnected consciousness.

I believed in reincarnation because it was not proven wrong. So, being a naturally obedient person, I took it as "innocent until proven wrong; true until proven false". Science cannot prove it wrong because science might be wrong_ no matter how remote this possibility is. Remember that fundamental principles of science are not yet fully proven. But, reasoning, commonsense and logic need not be proven. Why? Because should they be invalid tools, the concept of reincarnation as well as the entire family of beliefs about Buddhism will collapse automatically. Buddhism at its root is simply reasoning, commonsense and logic.

The law of relativity is a commonsense. I will take Physics and Einstein out of my equation. The concept of relativity just makes sense on its own. To observe an event, the observer must be in a frame of reference, and there are no special or privileged reference frames. How events are observed necessarily depends on an observer's reference frame. So, for a person in his current life who cannot relate himself to his past, the past does not exist. Even if another enlightened being can observe the person's past life, it is true only for his frame of reference. For the ignorant, there is no past life and he will cease to exist when he dies. It won't be logical to say that the enlightened being's view is absolute and whatever is true for him can be brought over to the ignorant.

Even if it is indeed absolute, if one cannot feel something,it is as good as that something never exists. Just to give you an analogy, say, I owe you 1 million dollars. But, the loan repayment condition is that I have the power to decide when to repay it. Then, I can postpone the repayment indefinitely and it is as good as the loan does not exist. So, no matter how entangled a person is to his previous consciousness, if he cannot feel it, it is as good as it never existed.

So, I think the concept of reincarnation is unsound. Because of this, you can say I am technically a free thinker (though I would still declare myself as a Buddhist). I still adhere to other Buddhist concepts for their own merit, for my won peace of mind and for those around me, if not for their truth and validity.