Reincarnation

[hot_pastrami]

Originally posted by lumberjim
now, you know you'll be coming back as a movie theatre manager, don;t you?

God damned karma.

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Ya know, I've been thinking that a lot lately.

Well, I didn't mean that quite as it sounded, My point is that I think some people are trying to justify their "boring" lives by imagining that they've lived glorious ones before. But that's escapism. Every life is valuable, and interesting. The value of one's life isn't measured by it's proximity to memorable events or influential people. I say carpe diem! La la la la la la Live for Today!

Besides, too many times people have related past lives which would have been dreadfully boring to live, and would only be interesting now as a historical curiosty. "I helped build the pyramids" and such nonsense. Well, speak some Egyption then... you claim that you did it every day for fifty-odd years, you should remember a word or two. No? Hmm. You remember that the slave-master had a unibrow and smelt of ricotta cheese, but you can't remember the Egyptian word for "Hello." Do you remember the Egyptian word for "Bullshit?"

I'm not saying that reincarnation is necessarily bullshit, only that some peoples' claims to past-life memories seem to be poorly-spun bullshit. Some claims may be legit, I can't know.