Speaking of past lives...
Have you noticed that no one who believes they have had a previous life ever believes they were some anonymous random peon? Every one I've heard of imagines they were Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Napoleon or another famous figure. Nobody ever says...
"Hey, I think I may have been a victim of the Black Death back in 1349."
"You know, I honestly believe I may have been one of those innocent bystanders slaughtered when the first Crusaders finally reached Jerusalem."
"Man, you know what really sucked? That day when our village was completely wiped out by the ancient Israelites."
"I miss the old days tending the ziggurat in Ur. That was the life."
Why is that? If past lives were possible, we couldn't all have been someone famous. Of course, given the overall expansion of the global population over the last hundred years or so it would be statistically impossible for all 6.5 billion people now living to have been someone else in the past; there just aren't enough dead people to go around.
And this is how my mind wanders on a Saturday night when I should be working...
"Hey, I think I may have been a victim of the Black Death back in 1349."
"You know, I honestly believe I may have been one of those innocent bystanders slaughtered when the first Crusaders finally reached Jerusalem."
"Man, you know what really sucked? That day when our village was completely wiped out by the ancient Israelites."
"I miss the old days tending the ziggurat in Ur. That was the life."
Why is that? If past lives were possible, we couldn't all have been someone famous. Of course, given the overall expansion of the global population over the last hundred years or so it would be statistically impossible for all 6.5 billion people now living to have been someone else in the past; there just aren't enough dead people to go around.
And this is how my mind wanders on a Saturday night when I should be working...