01-19-2014, 09:57 PM
Fair enough mate. It's just that free association is such a primal/fundamental tool it's important but the results are crude in regards to what they represent.
And honestly this sounds like notions plucked from a stream of free association with the idea of past lives, which isn't bad and you can learn about yourself through it (regardless of it is actually true) but it is still unrefined (personal) information, no two ways about it.
And presenting unrefined ideas to the public as something of a fact (just in the way it's presented, I know it's often just a personal musing) is what gets up a lot of our noses here lol but anywho
But seriously, the Poe thing (it should be noted you spelt his name wrong) is there any special connection there? Poe's such a cool guy lol
Also, there is a fair bit of controversy regarding whether Shakespeare actually wrote the works that are attributed to him, so you may have been him, but also a shameless thief
One more thing, in cultures where reincarnation is believed but the cult of celebrity is not established people are much more inclined to think they are the reincarnate of an ancestor than anything else.
In nations where such importance and value is placed on the famous, publicly visible and wealthy many people feel as if they don't hold these things they are lacking worth. This insecurity unfortunately can bleedthrough with desire in regards to searching for past lives in some effort to validate who they are now.
Goddammit people, you're all valuable lol
Edit: clarity
And honestly this sounds like notions plucked from a stream of free association with the idea of past lives, which isn't bad and you can learn about yourself through it (regardless of it is actually true) but it is still unrefined (personal) information, no two ways about it.
And presenting unrefined ideas to the public as something of a fact (just in the way it's presented, I know it's often just a personal musing) is what gets up a lot of our noses here lol but anywho
But seriously, the Poe thing (it should be noted you spelt his name wrong) is there any special connection there? Poe's such a cool guy lol
Also, there is a fair bit of controversy regarding whether Shakespeare actually wrote the works that are attributed to him, so you may have been him, but also a shameless thief
One more thing, in cultures where reincarnation is believed but the cult of celebrity is not established people are much more inclined to think they are the reincarnate of an ancestor than anything else.
In nations where such importance and value is placed on the famous, publicly visible and wealthy many people feel as if they don't hold these things they are lacking worth. This insecurity unfortunately can bleedthrough with desire in regards to searching for past lives in some effort to validate who they are now.
Goddammit people, you're all valuable lol
Edit: clarity
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