Funky See Funky Do posted:

That's where groove is. No, it has to be somewhere else.

someone who doesn't think kids can lie posted:

Conrad lingered in the sanctuary to ask questions. Then he went to find his boys, who had grown bored and left to play in the halls. He found them near the vending machines drinking Coke and talking to a stocky man Conrad didn't know. The man introduced himself and said he taught meditation at the church. "I work with indigos," he said, handing Conrad a business card. "Are you an indigo?" he asked Dusk. The boy looked at him shyly and nodded. "I'm an avatar," Dusk said. "I can recognize the four elements of earth, wind, water and fire. The next avatar won't come for 100 years."

The man seemed impressed. He crouched down in front of Dusk. "What am I thinking right now?" he asked. Dusk shrugged. "That's OK," he said, placing his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Maybe we can try some other time when not so many people are around."

Dejan Bimble posted:

People be videotaping their kids doing this in the present day without knowing about this dead mon. It's just going on whether we like it or not.

I get that kids say random poo poo, the viral one of today was a little Mexican girl weeping because she isn't Chinese. But why say verifiable poo poo specifically details from dead strangers lives.

Fruits of the sea posted:

That's pretty impressive recall, almost word for word the intro from The Last Airbender

Grey Cat posted:

I'm not sure but it's definitely an overlapping circle of people believing stories of people being "medically dead", especially children, who say for the couple minutes they were "dead" that they saw heaven or hell.

counterfeitsaint posted:

I read a short story once about a person who had just died and woke up in the afterlife, and there's this warm, smiling god figure there that explains to them that they are basically the only soul on earth. They are slowly reincarnating their way through each and every life on earth, jumping around through time, and once they have the life experiences of every person who has ever lived, they will be a god like figure as well, and then wishes them well as they go off to begin the next life. It was a pretty cool little story and I sometimes wish I could find it again.

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I always thought a neat plot device for some horror movie or thriller or whatever would be the discovery that there were only ever a few souls to go around that would have to be divided up for the living, and as the human population grew and grew, the integrity of these souls was stretched thinner and thinner to accommodate for every current living human, and it causes a violent descent into some sort of societal decay or hell on earth situation.

But that doesn't really stack up to the fact that people used to burn people alive in front of a town's population for minor poo poo, or that racism was so very, very worse the farther back you go. We got problems, absolutely but the past is always more brutal.

OMFG FURRY posted:

why is the pug getting sluttier

kntfkr posted:

Minotaurus Rex posted:

https://www.psypost.org/the-psychology-of-pseudo-profound-bullshit-insights-from-8-studies/

They got some good studies on pseudo-profound bullshit.. "statements that sound deep and meaningful but are actually empty of content"

The Bible posted:

The ones that are even more confusing are the ones that are like "He's the reincarnation of my dad" when the dad was alive when the kid was born.

I'm sure you could shoehorn some quantum superpositioning argument into it, though.

Also perplexing when they are some flavor of Christian. I hear a lot about funerals where a butterfly gets in the building or something and yup, that's definitely grandma, saying goodbye to us. Also she's in Heaven.

And then I guess grandma either gets stuck in the building, dies, and dries up a couple days later or gets eaten by a bird or whatever.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Did lowtax get reincarnated

juggalo baby coffin posted:

my cousin was allegedly a reincarnation bc initially he walked w a limp that my great grandfather only picked up from time in a POW camp in ww2. but like, logically it seems more likely they shared biomechanics and that limp resulted from the muscles not being strong enough (ie from a baby just learning to walk and not having built up the strength yet, and muscle atrophy from malnutrition)

McGavin posted:

Imagine isekaiing into this world.

Devils Affricate posted:

You'll get there some day, buddy

syntaxfunction posted:

I've never known a cockroach to have a midlife crisis and blow their savings on a lovely sports car they crash immediately. Who's the real animal?

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

I can't wait to monetize it

Pontificating rear end posted:

It would be easy to imagine a soul having some sort of "memory." Maybe it's more of an emotional memory, so if you found yourself in a different brain you could still conjure "memories" based on feelings (for lack of a better term) that are interpreted by the new brain a certain way.

BigBadSteve posted:

Literally hundreds of millions of people, probably billions in total, in India and a number of Asian countries (mainly) believe in reincarnation.

Jesustheastronaut! posted:

When we die, we die. Simple as.

syntaxfunction posted:

"I can't be broke, my employer has been in business for 100 years!"