BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as

Subject: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:56 PM

Was going to save this topic for the weekend for a bit of fun, but I can't wait. Going to Oggie Land soon, but this may make waking up tomorrow a bit more fun. Impetus to rise again, you know ?

Reincarnation... but as what ?

Well, I can think of a lot of things I'd like to come back as in the next life, but I fear that I, with the luck I have had lately, am doomed to come back as an alcoholic woodpecker. Now, there's a tomorrow mourning !

Sooooo, what do you 'Cats want... or fear... to come back as in the next life. Or what past life wrought this one ?

gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: AggieBethie
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 08:57 PM

I want to come back as a cat:-) I have a feeling that if I'm bad in this life, I'll come back as a man. lol

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:05 PM

Nothing. This is my first and only run.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:06 PM

I believe people come back as people. If I had to be something other, then I would weant to come back as an eagle. Kindest reguards, Neil

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Amos
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:11 PM

Someone I know once had a long and interesting conversation with a whale who was taking a lifetime off after having ben a successful but hard-drinking artist. Whales have a sort of interesting life, not too much stress, plenty of space to roam in, adequate food, and not much to worry about except noise pollution. On the other hand being a hawk has always appealed. But in general I think people come around again as people as long as they're still able to, and not too able to.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:19 PM

Come back! ... DO I have to?
I'd come back as a Raven.
LL

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:22 PM

Have to think about this......cat is attractive, but not a feral one. Whale is attractive, but not a hunted one in a polluted ocean. Eagle is attractive but not with DDT thinning my eggshells. Human is attractive, but not when they kill babies over religion. Tree would do, but not in a threatened rain forest, or an Elm with Dutch Elm Disease.

Aha! A weed maybe? A plant that is not desired where it is at, but is too tough to succumb to humanity's depradations........got it....a DANDELION!!

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:25 PM

Watch out for my lawnmower. It's self propelled...heheheh

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:30 PM

LL... a raven ! So you could do all the cool things ravens do and still talk !? Nifty. But how would you post to the 'Cat ? Or is that a missing EAP tale ? Perhaps a thread on LL's raven adventures in the Poe style and tradidtion ?

hmmmmgnu

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:35 PM

Sorcha....but dandelions don't last. Well, they do pretty good on my chemicaless lawn. Wait, I understand. You will be picked and made into dandelion wine and be drunk in the "Rites of Spring" thread, thence living forever. Excellent choice.

gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:38 PM

Don't come back as a starling, unless you want to end up dead under my sis's bed.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:42 PM

Matt R....as if by the devine, you chose to come back as Stephen King with a dandelion horror story, repleat with a sci-fi motorized kilkling machine controlled by artificial intelligence and the demented laughter of Poe.

It's all coming together now.

entusedgnu

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: CarolC
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:44 PM

Maybe an ice skating accordion player. Or and accordion playing ice skater. And a writer. An accordion playing, ice skating, writer. Maybe. Or maybe a beachcomber.

Maybe I'll go someplace else next time...

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:46 PM

Matt R said ....unless you want to end up dead under my sis's bed.

Whoa... if this crosses into reality based Poe shit, it's no fun anymore. Please tell me she was a budding biologist who was engeaged in research. Please ?

trepedatiousgnu

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:52 PM

CarolC.... if you can do all that stuff, you could go anywhere ! and name your salary ! A Jack of All Trades... welcome anywhere at twice the price. Another excellent choice.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:53 PM

but, gnu, they do! (oops, didn't' mean to rhyme there) Dandelions come back from poisoned roots, dug up/cut off roots, wind blown seeds......I have never been able to get rid of them, no matter what I do. But Raven or the Little Brother Crow seems like a good second choice. I have "talked" to/with them for years......they are good friends. They do get shot at, tho......

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Giac
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 09:55 PM

My late mother said she was going to come back as a tumblebug (dung beetle), because she'd had so much experience. I do try to not step on one ... just in case.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 10:00 PM

Oh Dear, Giac, you are so right!! We don't have tunblebug/scarabs (dung beetles) here, so I forgot about them!!Oh dear, what a comedown from either Lang du Chat or Corvidae!! dung beetles.......that will just be my luck!!

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,thebar
Date: 27 Mar 01 - 10:08 PM

I want to come back as the bar in the peeler joint.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:30 AM

It is not up to me to decide, who I return as....

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Wavestar
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:45 AM

Dolphin, definitely. Dolphins spend their entire lives eating, sleeping, playing, and having sex. How great is that? The tuna thing would suck, but at least we're cutting down. I think it's worth the risk.

Otherwise, a cat or a flying thing. I've got an affinity for crows, but seagulls are better flyers.

-J

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Chip2447
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 01:49 AM

I think a big ole fat and sassy tom cat with a good home...lying in the sun, having the run of the farm, a woman to cuddle you when she was feeling blue.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: mousethief
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:20 AM

Well, I don't really believe in reincarnation, but can I still play? If I did believe in it, and could choose what to come back as, I'd be a sequoia. Hopefully somewhere in a national park where logging isn't allowed. Tall and quiet and old. Peace from my roots to my topmost branches.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:21 AM

"Or what past life wrought this one?" Whoa, gnu. Great question- and one I don't think I'm ready to face. What are your thoughts on it for yourself?

I agree with Lyrical Lady- if I come back as an animal (Sorry, Amergin- I believe we do choose, or rather, that the answer is obvious to us at that time) I would choose to be a raven. I like eagles but they are far too arrogant and royal to suit me. Ravens, on the other hand, say, Isn't this fun??!! Or at least, interesting, and that may be enough. (There is a curse that goes something like: May you always live in interesting times.) So maybe it isn't enough- but I'll try it. After all, we're talking 30 years, tops. *G*

Eb

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: bill\sables
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 02:48 AM

About two years ago my mother in law watched a tv programme regarding reincarnation and made the statement that she'd like to come back as a cow. I told her she couldn't, she had to be something different.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:26 AM

As my gorgeous intelligent self but with musical talent next time!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Benjamin
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:35 AM

A dolphin? I'm not much of a hippy, but I like your reasoning on this one. Though I can't swim, so I'd hope that wouldn't be something that would carry over.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Gervase
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 03:46 AM

Cats seem the best bet - but I wonder what the poor sod ever did who has come back as Ann Widdecombe's cat .
(Not for the politically squeamish)

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 05:12 AM

Not that I think I'll come back, but I'd like to come back as me. I like being me, and I'd like to not have it end in the first place, but I suppose I can't find immortality that easily. Yeah, I'd like to come back as me. Or to swap places with my Other Half so he gets to be me and I get to be him. That would be weird, but very interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Firecat
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 05:50 AM

I want to come back as a butterfly! If not that, a dolphin! (Preferably a butterfly though!)

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Patrish
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 06:07 AM

let me be
reincarnated a tree
I will stand strong
And if someone should
carve an initial or two
I will bear the scar
as a gift of love
As the wind
blows through me
I will rustle
your name
And my falling leaves
will gently
will caress your head

Patrish x

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Jenny the T
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 07:23 AM

I'd like to come back as Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh. Then I'd finally be able to make the fiddle sound the way I want.

But then, that might mean Mairead herself would have to come back as me. Poor thing. Guess I'll back away from my wish--I wouldn't want to inflict _that_ on anyone, would I?

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Grab
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 07:47 AM

Trouble with being a tomcat, Chip, is that someone will cut yer nuts off!

Grab.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:11 AM

Oh my goodness, you folks sure are giving me some much needed laughs this morning!! Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh...that would be cool!!

Fib, I'll just say this:

I am me
As you are he
And you are me
And we are all together...

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:30 AM

Very apt indeed, Matt, but (shock! horror!) I don't much like the Beatles and i really don't like that song..... I know, I know, I must be evil or warped or twisted or something! (er - it was the Beatles, wasn't it?)

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:32 AM

Ebbie... I can't remember what I had for breakfast half the time, so going back over 45 years is a bit of a strain. But this is a "wish" thread, soooo, I figure I was a beaver, the "First Engineer". It completes the cycle of damming up old woods roads as a beaver and now trying to get across or around the dam things as a human.

gnawinggnu

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:37 AM

WELL!! Here you are telling me I've lost musical credibility because I like Natalie Imbruglia and the Spice Girls, when you don't even like The Beatles! I see how it is NOW!

Yep, it's "I Am The Walrus", one of my most sung and most quoted songs...my family is always like "uh oh he's doing the walrus song AGAIN..."

Goo goo g'joob!

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:40 AM

okay.... sorry....*G* I have no musical credibility anyway. I'd like to be reincarnated with someone who has TASTE!

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:40 AM

er, not WITH someone, AS someone...

Subject: Lyr Add: THE HIGHWAYMAN (Jimmy Webb)
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:48 AM

Here's a great song about past lives...it came out when I was 6 years old...simply one of the greatest songs ever.

The Highwaymen

I was a highwayman
Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of '25
But I'm still alive...

I was a sailor
I was born upon the tide
With the sea I did abide
I sailed a schooner round the horn of Mexico
I went aloft and furled the main sail in a blow
And when the yard broke off they say that I got killed
But I'm living still...

I was a dam builder
Across a river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
At a place called Boulder, on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that grey tomb that knows no sound
But I'm still around...

I'll always be around, and around
And around, and around, and around

I fly a starship
Across the universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain...

And I'll be back again, and again
And again, and again, and again...

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 08:54 AM

A sloth, they know how to RELAX!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: LR Mole
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:07 AM

I think I will come back as the ocean. One of them, anyway. If not that, the sky.
LR Mole and his Electric Hubris

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:22 AM

I would come back as an ape, just being practical.The time when Humans will mess it all up and the apes will take over is fast approaching. Maybe Dr. Zeuss, Yeah I would come back as Dr. Zeuss.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:35 AM

1. as a more enlightened human. (more than I already am) 2. an elephant. My "power animal" big, social, gentle. Even the "King of beasts" moves over for them. 3. Bonnies banjo!

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From:
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 09:43 AM

A real Tigger.

Oh, but there's only one Tigger, and he already exists....

An armadillo, then...

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:37 AM

As a clairvoyant - because I didn't believe in re-incarnation the first time.

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:39 AM

Me.

But if time travel is allowed, can we make it about 220 years ago so I could go with Lewis and Clark up the Missouri and on over the Rockies to the Pacific?

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST,Les B
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:07 PM

Sorcha - when I was a kid there were Tumblebugs in southern Montana, and, I assume, they're a little further south in Wyoming.

As for me, I'd come back as a coyote - a wiley survivor, and able to lick my own balls !

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:31 PM

I suppose I will continue my evolution on learning to be a healer and I would like to use my words and musical ability even more so for such. If I had complete freedom to choose without thinking of the karmic ramifications or mis-direction it may cost, I would like to be a large wild cat with guarantees of living well and free.

As it is, there is always work to do and I suspect when it comes time to make the choice I will ask the gawd of my heart what is for my highest good and choose that, warts and all. I would hope this would include getting together with some *ships in the night* from this lifetime, people I'd really like to know better and/or be with more.

BUT, the idea of taking one lifetime span off to go swim as a dolphin, or fly like a red-tailed hawk, or run like a wolf has definite attractions!

katlaughing is fine for now, though

Subject: RE: BS: Reincarnation : I'd like to come back as
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 01 - 12:44 PM

To borrow a joke from Dharmabum another thread "Who are you, really" I am a freelance gynocologist. I would like to remain so only with more patients.