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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-12-18 03:59 pm

[ SECRET POST #1811 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1811 ⌋


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[personal profile] meadowphoenix 2011-12-19 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
It's not that I doubt your religion/people. It's that I doubt you remember your past lives beyond impressions, unless you're claiming to be especially enlightened, which I also doubt.

Also, are you for real saying you were once an alien, since that's the only way I can read this secret with any logic? Because if you are Hindu, that's something I've never heard was a possibility in that religion.

(Anonymous) 2011-12-19 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that was one thing which threw me when reading this secret. I have a good Hindu friend (admittedly who is only part of one sect of Hinduism, so it's not like I have a wide pool of knowledge about the inner-workings of the diversity of the religion yet) who I discuss religion a lot with, but this sounded very different from how I hear her talk about reincarnation.

I mean, I suppose it is possible to be reincarnated from a alien, but our memories are supposed to be wiped by each soul-cycle, and in general I haven't heard much of other planet-to-planet reaincarnation. I suppose if the OP means she has impressions and strong feelings, then I could understand (I think the amount of carry-over varies from sect to sect?), but the way this secret was phrased confused the heck outta me.

It does sound beautiful, though. Just the part of me that loves to dissect and probe belief systems (including my own) started flailing and going 'wait, wut?!?!'
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[personal profile] meadowphoenix 2011-12-19 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
I seriously don't remember any aliens. Unless OP is saying they used to be a god, which would also fit but for some reason I find more doubtful than the aliens, tbh. This secret is messing with me, but I'm pretty sure the Hindu friends I have would also be wtf about it.

Maybe it's some other religion. I know there are other one which involve aliens which aren't Scientology.

[identity profile] dragonimp.livejournal.com 2011-12-19 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
I've met people who expressed that their souls were not human, so OP is not alone in that. For some it was a vague feeling, for others it was based on past life impressions/images/flashbacks. Nothing that required special enlightenment.
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[personal profile] meadowphoenix 2011-12-20 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
There's a difference in noting that you're non-human but still earthly, than noting that you're alien/god. We simply don't know enough about aliens/gods to have the references needed to point that out, while we do know enough about the other life-forms on this planet to be able to know. Differentiation between human and humanoid wouldn't be something normal past-life experiences would meet.

The OP was pretty specific about missing other humanoid non-humans. Missing home isn't that complex, but missing others of yourself requires a depth of knowledge about what you were, what was the culture, how distant you are from that would require more than a flashback.

[identity profile] dragonimp.livejournal.com 2011-12-20 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't get "humanoid" out of the secret; I took it to mean that they look human now (meaning were born human in this life) but believe they have a non-human soul. To be fair, they didn't say if that soul was earthly or non earthly or what, just that they missed their "own kind" (which does imply some sort of sapient being, but still they're not specific). I'm not going to guess whether they mean a vague sense of loss or a specific missing of people and culture or what sort of non-human being they're talking about, my point was that they're hardly alone in believing they have a non-human soul, and believing that doesn't require any sort of special enlightenment. Regressing to a past life memory of something that isn't human would be pretty noticeable.
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[personal profile] meadowphoenix 2011-12-20 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
I did get that though. They said they know what it's like to look human and miss their own kind, as if it were happening at the same time and looking human was as far as their humanity went. From that, there aren't any earthly non-human look-alikes that we know. You have to be able to extrapolate something from the secrets we get, and I wasn't making an unreasonable assumption based on their wording, especially since I specifically implied that it was how I read it.

Also, I never said that believing they were non-human was the issue, so I'm honestly not sure where you got that. I said that I doubt they were able to specifically miss their other non-humans from an impression and I've never heard of aliens as a possible reincarnation.