On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Rick Pikul <chakatfirepaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 29 March 2010 13:35, Zach Collins (Siege) wrote:
> Although, even when the believers talk about being a nobody, it's often about
> how their particular nobody did something to become a somebody, (even if not
> a historical somebody).
Most of the nobodies on Earth didn't. The scribe did, but the records
of it may have been lost in a church fire, and I probably couldn't get
access anyway to look and see, not being a Vatican scholar.
>> Sometimes the smaller lives are the more
>> interesting ones, and it keeps people from shaking their heads at your
>> very large claims. "Emperor of what now? When was this? Do you have
>> any proof?"
>
> There's a reason I picked a comparison between absolutely boring lives[1] and
> one that would be interesting, (or at least notable to modern eyes), but
> hardly unique.
>
> And there is at least one person who maintains that he is not just the
> reincarnation of a ruler, but of an entire line of rulers.
The Dalai Lama and many of his high-ranking leaders in the Tibetan
Buddhist religion believe they have had many lives in their religious
positions. In fact, when one dies a search is conducted to find a
child born at or very close to the time of death, who seems on close
study to have the energy or pattern of that person in them.
> [1] Both were intended as examples of people who did the same thing every day,
> and then died.
Indeed. It's not the "same things" that are important; you don't
remember past lives for the small talk, you remember them to carry
certain lessons forward. But most people get distracted exploring the
weird or famous things they can recall. I'm exploring culture and
language, for example.
--
Zach Collins
_at_strikingdragon
"If code can be speech, then software can be art."
Received on Tue Mar 30 2010 - 07:53:23 CDT