… but not in a religious context, Sooraj´s thread inspired me asking.
If you were reborn, where and in what era and as which creature would you like to be reborn? Or maybe if you´re already reborn, as what have you already lived?
My wife says she lived as a cat in Italy and obviously had a bad experience with fire! If I was reborn, I´d like to live in Memphis in the late 1930s, just to be teenager during the development of Rock´n´Roll…
I’ve heard of cat ladies, but not in that sense.
I’d probably like to be born in the 50’s so I could have seen bands like Sabbath, Zeppelin, Allman Bros, etc. at their peak for like 5 bucks.
I’ve always said that if I could be any creature, I’d want to be something underwater. 70% of the planet is underwater, and I’ve never seen it (except on those BBC shows that Oprah narrates).
It would be particularly cool if you had some kind of super-strong exoskeleton with a built-in flashlight, so that you could go down into the Mariana Trench and see what’s down there.
If anything can convince me of a greater purpose or design, it is the fact that I get to be a human, compared to all the millions of other possible organisms on the planet.
Of course, perhaps we just cannot conceptualize the existence of even higher life forms. An ant might not have a concept of humans, except as natural disasters.
Then again, humans are comprised of cells that still retain characteristics of the single cell organisms from which they evolved. So, what is an individual? What is conciousness?
Once, I was river rafting and I saw this duck just hanging out on a log. It seemed pretty relaxed. It might be nice to be that duck.
That would get old so fast… Oh look some more seaweed…
WHAT IS THAT… oh another shell.
Plus all you do is eat and swim around. Could be worse though. Can you imagine being a Galapagos tortoise?! They walk like a mile/yr and don’t do sh*t.