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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 06:51 AM
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So what do you think you were in your past lives?
Even if you don't believe in reincarnation (and I actually don't) certain parts of history and certain places in the world just resonate with me. If there's such a thing as past lives, I think I could have been a Phonecian Sailor, setting out on the Med with my square-sailed boat and hoping to find a fortune at sea. I love the ocean, and when I first saw the Med I felt like I had come home.

I also might have been a low-level servant in a royal residence during medieval times. Or a member of the Landed Gentry in Victorian England, since both those times fascinate me as well. So share! When and where did you live in your previous lives?
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 07:23 AM
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1. A sea anemone
In return for not covering a lot of ground then, I was reborn into my present incarnation, where
I'm rarely in the same country for more than 3 days in a row.

Maybe next time, I'll be two-toed sloth, or something with a somewhat more tranquil lifestyle.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 03:15 PM
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2. Slime slug #2,984,656,098,123,...
Edited on Tue Aug-03-10 03:16 PM by Deep13
...on the second planet of red dwarf #69,878,737 in the Galaxy M64.
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frogmarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 03:25 PM
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3. Ireland
I'm an atheist and don't believe in reincarnation, but ever since I can remember, I've been drawn to all things Irish. If I believed in reincarnation, I'd probably think I'd had a past life there.

:think: Hey, maybe that's why potatoes are my favorite food!

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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 08:32 PM
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16. Yeah, I'm an agnostic and I have the same skepticism
But you do have to wonder why you're drawn to certain eras and places. Some energies just call out to us on a visceral level. I love Italy so much I've actually cried when I've arrived, and when I've had to leave. I'm not a sentimental person, and have no rational explanation for my feelings towards the Mediterranean. Don't really need to know why, just need to keep goin' there I guess!
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frogmarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 09:54 PM
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19. I can certainly relate
to that feeling. I've never been to Ireland, as you have to Italy, but when I was around four, I used to cry because I was "homesick" for "Eire." When I was in high school (still on an Ireland kick, of course!), Mom told me I had nearly driven her nuts when I was young describing my hallucinations about my imaginary old home in Ireland.

Besides remembering being homesick for Ireland, I remember insisting on being called Darby when I was at that tender young age. I clearly remember Mom informing me that it was a boy's name, and that besides, I already had a perfectly good English name! So I named my doll Darby, and years later, I named my son Darby. The deep feelings I had for Ireland diminished somewhat as I grew older, but they didn't vanish altogether.

Oh, the weirdness of the human mind.
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One_Life_To_Give Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 04:04 PM
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4. Victim of Vlad the Impaler
Have this issue with falling.
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 04:21 PM
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5. Much as I'd like to post a serious reply
I doubt the Lounge is the place for it. :(
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peacefreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 04:26 PM
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7. Oh go for it!
:P What do you have to lose?
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 05:21 PM
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9. My patience, mostly
Edited on Tue Aug-03-10 05:22 PM by MorningGlow
Closed-minded poo-flingers give me agita. ;)

On edit: Just want to clarify that I don't care whether people do or do not believe in reincarnation--believe whatever the heck you want--it's the people who gleefully pig-pile on a belief that is Not Theirs who get to me.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 05:33 PM
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11. Well-put in your edit
:thumbsup: :D
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 08:35 PM
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17. I'm sorry if people pile on...that's not why I started the thread.
I've stated that I'm a skeptic, but I'm not above speculating on the possibilities. Plus, it's interesting to see how the rest of you feel.
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 08:39 AM
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24.  I have no problem if people want to imagine past lives.
It can be fun.

And it's a hell of a lot better than creating "repressed memories" in THIS life and accusing innocent people of being child torturers and molesters.
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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 08:40 AM
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25. + infinity
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peacefreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 04:24 PM
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6. I sometimes think I was a soldier.
I have a birthmark next to my nose & I always thought it was a karmic scar. I think I was smashed in the face & died looking at the green grass. Never liked the color green.
Or I was a sea slug. If I have my choice for the next time 'round, I'll be a well taken care of (spoiled) cat!
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 04:48 PM
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8. I keep revisiting several periods
I can see myself living in a preliterate preagrarian hunter-gatherer clan.

In ancient greece or rome. More greece than rome, IMO. Not sure why. But definitely a classical culture. Walking along a marbled path seems familiar. Perhaps I was a slave or shopkeeper.

Don't really get anything definite for the "dark ages" or the middle ages, though I am drawn to learning about them.

It would be fun to learn about, certainly.

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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 05:30 PM
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10. Something small and unobtrusive, like a squirrel or a June bug.
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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 06:05 PM
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12. My fear of horses makes me think
I was a fly.

I feel most comfortable in snow and ice so I was probably an inhabitant of a very cold place in at least one of my lives.

And I am drawn to vampire stories. I don't really wanna go there.
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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 06:20 PM
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13. I'm sure I would have been a peon, just like I am this time around. nt
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 06:23 PM
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14. When my niece was little she used to tell us
what it was like back when she was a dinosaur. Good times! :P
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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 06:29 PM
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15. I must have been some sort of dolphin
I can't stay away from the ocean, and I find dolphins, whales, seals, all marine life beautiful and wonderful.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 08:42 PM
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18. Me, very sensibly...


Over and over and over and...
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 12:13 AM
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20. I love Italy, England and Latin cultures in general.
Also love China and Asian culture.

Have taken Latin, Italian and Spanish classes.

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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 01:22 AM
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21. A settler in the old west, circa 1840
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 02:05 AM
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22. Jesus, Buddha, Socrates, Apollo, and Hammarubi's brother-in-law.
Hammarubi's BIL was a bit of a slacker and a drunkard, and he delighted, the few times he rose from the sofa, in breaking as many of Hammarubi's laws as possible. I liked being him.

(Disclaimer: Historical sources do not record anything about this brother. It's just something I know.)
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 08:26 AM
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23. yeah, it's a past life memory right?
:toast:
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 10:21 AM
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26. Nah, more like something I relived the other night.
Veggie dogs and beer will give you the weirdest dreams.
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gvstn Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-10 10:46 AM
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27. Not Sure
But it is curious that no one seems to remember a past life in Ethiopia or some other impoverished existence.
You never hear of a 5 year old running out after a rain and digging for earth worms and slurping them up declaring how he remembers the good times of how he and his clan enjoyed finding a protein source aplenty after the rains.

It is almost always a romanticized well taught historical setting.

I always figure if there was anything to the afterlife that we could understand Edward Casey would have made contact by now. My cynicism is depressing but entrenched. :(
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-10 06:12 PM
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28. Oh, I don't know, if reincarnation existed, I'm sure I'd have lived one of those lives.
I think of that scene in Monty Python's Holy Grail where Eric Idle and Michael Palin are peasants digging around in the muck, and one says: "Look over here, there's some lovely shit."

That could have easily been my Medieval life!
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