Reincarnation (658 hits)
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Submitted by icarus (View user info) at 2008-01-20 11:53:14 EST
Are there many uberers out there that believe in reincarnation? I've always pictured you lot as more of an agnostic/skeptic group on the whole. Now, I'm familiar with the way some of my people (Natives) view reincarnation, and I think I have a solid grasp of the way Buddhists and Hindus see it as well. It's the way some of the ambiguous others (largely whites or asians who identify themselves as Wiccan, Odinist, or generically Pagan), view the concept that I'm a little hazy.
Why, for instance, do there seem to be so many Merlins out there? I met seven once-Merlins in college (two in the same course), and have since seen one featured in some 60 Minutes segment on the Aquarian cult. This means that, at one point, there were at least eight incarnations of Merlins bopping about the mortal coil, to say nothing of the Cleopatra and Saladin I met at my first shit job.
This is a bit baffling. Why is it that the world of reincarnation seems to be like the world of Renfest, where everyone's a princess or a duke or a knight? What happened to all the fish mongers, pig farmers and honey dippers out there? Do celebrities get preferential treatment when it comes to transmigration of the soul? The more movies they've made about you, the more concurrent incarnations you're allowed? If so, how long will it be before we're inundated with people claiming to be reincarnations of Elvis, Reagan, or 9/11 victims? When Method dies, will his alters reincarnate and rule the world? It's something to think about.
Just not for very long.
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-01-21 14:47:44 EST (#)
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Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2008-01-21 14:00:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2008-01-21 13:44:53 EST (#)
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reincarnation, afterlife, heaven, ghosts, blah blah blah. It all just seems exhausting. I'd rather just die and come back to life as a mindless zombie.
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I think this is what already happened to me.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2008-01-21 13:44:53 EST (#)
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reincarnation, afterlife, heaven, ghosts, blah blah blah. It all just seems exhausting. I'd rather just die and come back to life as a mindless zombie.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-01-20 19:04:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-01-20 13:07:08 EST (#)
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I'm fully 0.4% Choctaw, unless Grandpa was lying, and I've been accused of "going Indian" (pony tail, I don't use a tent when sleeping outside, my campfires are small, and I drink too much). Will you be my buddy?
I don't believe in reincarnation, though. Is that going to be a problem?
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Neither do I :(
Actually scratch that.
I don't know what happens, so don't really have an opinion.
Submitted by BritishBeef (user info) at 2008-01-20 17:59:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-01-20 17:27:41 GMT (#)
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it's all bollocks
Submitted by Grimm (user info) at 2008-01-20 17:09:57 EST (#)
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i wanna come back as an alligator. dude.
Submitted by HandZon (user info) at 2008-01-20 14:51:25 EST (#)
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I sense we're on to soul-stealing. Although I do like a nice fetus; much like a cat I suck the breath from any baby within my reach.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-01-20 14:42:17 EST (#)
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IT'S THE CIIIIIRRRRRRRCLE OF... SOMETHING OR OTHER
mud
Submitted by Poots (user info) at 2008-01-20 14:40:10 EST (#)
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Do the recently reincarnated reincarnate with or without volition?
What is the difference between somebody being possessed for a lifetime as was supposedly the case with Jim Morrisson(liar) and a reincarnated person taking the baby soul of some fetus?
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-01-20 14:38:04 EST (#)
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I definitely believe in reincarnation.
I just don't believe in this post.
Submitted by Poots (user info) at 2008-01-20 14:25:16 EST (#)
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How is it that you've met so many reincarnated people? I've yet to meet one such. Not that I look for them.
Are you apart of some reincarted people search and destroy squad?
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-20 13:39:32 EST (#)
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You mean the Sixth Level Mage Spell?
Yeah. It's cool.
Submitted by HandZon (user info) at 2008-01-20 13:23:51 EST (#)
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2008-01-20 12:17:06 EST (#)
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This sort of thing all comes about because people can't face the facts of their own mortality.
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Well said, I've always thought that shit was for people who couldn't get it right the first time around.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-01-20 13:09:19 EST (#)
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In other news, I wish the family would go somewhere so I could pull one off.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2008-01-20 13:07:08 EST (#)
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I'm fully 0.4% Choctaw, unless Grandpa was lying, and I've been accused of "going Indian" (pony tail, I don't use a tent when sleeping outside, my campfires are small, and I drink too much). Will you be my buddy?
I don't believe in reincarnation, though. Is that going to be a problem?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-01-20 12:27:41 EST (#)
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it's all bollocks
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2008-01-20 12:17:06 EST (#)
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This sort of thing all comes about because people can't face the facts of their own mortality.
I've wondered about why everyone is a reincarnated from someone famous much in the same way that everyone who researches their family tree is suddenly from the Mayflower or descended from royalty. One of my mom's barely literate cousins decided that we were descended from someone who signed the US Constitution - sure right.