Im not Hindu or bud dist but i do believe in reincarnation. I just know things, "like cooking some times i just go in the kitchen and make say an apple pie for the first time without a recipe and it turns out great." how did i know how to make the apple pie in the first place. Try to read Some books by Sylvia Browne. I was skeptical but the way she explains things just makes sense.
This is my life and if I had another life, then I had another life. But this the life I'm in now and I'll think about this life, live this life, love this life and I don't think I'll waste my time saying, "So what if I skrew up, I have another life after this."
This is my life as longtailedmonkey and I want to live it to the fullest, if there is reincarnation, then I'll have another life, but as a different person. I have this life to live and I only remember this life, I don't remember any other life. Reincarnation is not a theatre house, where an actor plays a role and then takes on another, but still remembers the previous roles. Reincarnation is a different thing. You don't remember your previous lives as another person, because you are this person you are now.
If I have been reincranated, I don't remember, because I am me now and I was born into this life, this world, this family as me, not as someone else.
If you don't remember anything, then we hindus and buddhists don't too, because religion doesn't make humans different, it guides a person to live a life with culture. Without culture, life would just be too empty to live.
So little knowledge about Buddhism and Himduism but trying to act like he knows a lot .. Poor guy ( ask er )
He only shows his ignorant in other religions through indulging only in his own religion which if i was not wrong , was Christianity .
A person who did not open up his mind to study other things and blindly accept things which was preached to him , is Stupid ..
My advice , study more about Buddhism and Hinduism before asking such question .. : -)