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Past Lives (Its like a video game!)
An-D
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I'm starting this thread because I stumbled upon this article:
http://www.ntcsites.com/acadianhouse/nss-folder/publicfolder/AP/cover_feature_24_3.htm
Basically, a child is having horrible nightmares about a plane crash and upon talking to the child and further investigation, the parents find fairly clear parallels between the child's dreams and a plane that was shot down during WWII in the Pacific.
My first instinct with this is to raise the BS flag, but there are definitely some things in the article that seem to be more than coincidence. Is there any kind of "science" or other such thing to back this up? Is this a stand-alone happening?
I find myself still very much a skeptic.
Some people I know talk often of their past lives where they claim that they were Vlad the Impaler in a past life and other such stuff. When you tell they that that's dumb, they kind of look at you condescendingly and say "Oh, you're just a young soul." or something like that. Its pretty dumb.
So, what does PA think about this? Real stuff or coincidence or did the kid/pilot grab the green mushroom before he crashed? Are past lives or past life memories worth thinking about?
http://www.ntcsites.com/acadianhouse/nss-folder/publicfolder/AP/cover_feature_24_3.htm
Basically, a child is having horrible nightmares about a plane crash and upon talking to the child and further investigation, the parents find fairly clear parallels between the child's dreams and a plane that was shot down during WWII in the Pacific.
My first instinct with this is to raise the BS flag, but there are definitely some things in the article that seem to be more than coincidence. Is there any kind of "science" or other such thing to back this up? Is this a stand-alone happening?
From Article wrote:The next month, James relinquished another piece of information, which floored his already-skeptical father. Bruce was thumbing through a book, The Battle For Iwo Jima, by Derrick Wright, which he had recently received from a history book club. While Bruce was inspecting the book, James jumped into his lap to watch cartoons. While waiting for the cartoons to come on, James looked at the book with his dad. Suddenly, James pointed to a map of Iwo Jima near Chichi Jima and said, “Daddy, that is where my plane was shot down.” Bruce says he almost keeled over.
I find myself still very much a skeptic.
Some people I know talk often of their past lives where they claim that they were Vlad the Impaler in a past life and other such stuff. When you tell they that that's dumb, they kind of look at you condescendingly and say "Oh, you're just a young soul." or something like that. Its pretty dumb.
So, what does PA think about this? Real stuff or coincidence or did the kid/pilot grab the green mushroom before he crashed? Are past lives or past life memories worth thinking about?
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This is where I stopped reading. When the only two logical conclusions are past lives or demonic possession, you know you're in crazy town.
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Sometime in the future, a child will be reading a book about culture in the 2000's and come to the chapter about World of Warcraft. When the picture of Molten Core comes up, he'll nonchalantly turn to his parents and say, "That's the place where I died in my last life. I lost all of my friends, failed out of college, got thrown out of my parents' basement, and became a bum who pooped in a sock in this very place."
But then again there was also a direct ancestor of mine who was a knight or some fighter guy. During a battle that went bad he fled across some shallow river? or something to deliver a message with a couple other dudes, and they all died except for him while he killed about 80 guys by himself to get across. And was some kind of hero for it.
Yeah my father has an obsession for this kind of stuff for some reason. I don't really see the meaning in it. He did show me a picture of these old timey people though that looked exactly like me and various relatives. It was uncanny. And very weird in a "that might be future-me after I discover time travel" kind of way.
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"That's the place where I died in my last life. Fucking healers."
In fact, as we all know children have absolutely no imagination and are walking robots with no ability to imagine themselves in other situations. Something like this is inexplicable!
Now, I know, that's fairly unlikely. The History Channel doesn't have WWII specials on very often. Bear with me here.
I'd like to imagine that most people who let MMOs destroy their lives are very consumed by the game and RP heavily, if only on a subconscious level. And everyone knows it's the healers fault, even if they were properly geared but the DPS wasn't watching threat or was too weak to take down the boss before the healer went oom.
I can't think of many authentic eastern traditions in which souls are continuously reincarnated as human beings. Usually people go around on a wheel from lower consciousness organisms to higher consciousness organisms and back again.
maybe he was, like, a roach in the plane, man
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I was going to make it, but I decided it would be a bad joke.
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A kid who watched too much history channel these days would more likely dream of being Jesus
or an alien
or Hitler
That isn't the ONLY plausible explanation.
My god man, did you not hear the equally plausible demonic possession theory??
(And yes, I know the actual answer, I just think it's funny)
I mean, I've been playing Assassin's Creed again lately, and I can't help but notice a faint similarity.
If I ever find myself in a conversation with somebody who believes in past life regression, I'll probably contribute a mundane made-up life like that: Peter the farm hand, who lived on an estate until he died of cholera at age thirty-two, or John the cleric, who lived an uneventful life in a minor ecclesiastical order for seventy years.
Or a chipmunk. Chipmunks are cool.
That is even more impossible.
A faint similarity between what? This nonsense and that nonsense?
So, this news post and thread are actually the viral start of an ARG for Assassin's Creed 2?
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In areas where belief in demons is more common, especially in rural areas, this sort of thing happens all the time. If a small child starts behaving oddly, they very frequently attribute it to demonic possession.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Or having been stolen by the fairies and replaced with a changeling.
Edit: Though that's not as common as it used to be.
I still think this is silly.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Or they kill the nearest old woman for being a witch.
enlightened countries miss out on so much fun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse