Your previous life.

Jazintha Piper · **Joined:** Jun 12, 2007 **Posts:** 564

Buddhists believe that it takes 49 days for your spirit to be reincarnated after death.

Noting this, enter your birthday here, subtract 49 days, then google "died on *resulting date*".

This is who you were in your previous life.

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I was either:
A Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, the son of a philosopher and mathematician, a Democratic US Congressman, or an Anglican Archbishop.

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:51 pm **Post subject:**

What about all the nameless paupers/homeless, people that have no certain date of death by us, tribesmen, &c.?

Jojobobo · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:06 pm **Post subject:**

I was a dragon. If reincarnation is real who can deny that I might have been a dragon? A big one at that, roar!

Smuel · **Joined:** Feb 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1047

Jazintha Piper wrote:

I was either:

Isn't karma supposed to govern who or what you become, based on how nice you were during your life? If so, those people must have been utter bastards.

magikot · **Joined:** Aug 29, 2003 **Posts:** 1670

I was Jon-Erik Hexum.

I should probably stop pursuing a military career if my last incarnation died from a firearm accident...

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:16 pm **Post subject:**

This guy looks pretty cool. Of course I'm either him, Robert E. Howard (wrote Conan the Destroyer) or Agent Richard T. Cleary, who died of a heart attack while on duty.

Muro · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:43 pm **Post subject:**

I was someone. And before that, someone. And someone before that. But before that - Washington, Washington.

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:58 pm **Post subject:**

I'm unsure if there's a pure recycle when it comes to souls. It's quite likely that in the many years of humans being a species, at least 100 billion people have already died. There aren't that many humans alive right now, and considering the specifics of reincarnation, can I actually be sure I was a human in my last life?

Arthgon · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:36 pm **Post subject:**

Wow. Three days later, I would have been Franco. (Who died on 20 November 1975)

Dark Elf · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:06 pm **Post subject:**

Why the fuck was I this dude?

Sponge wrote:

Robert E. Howard

You were born in 1936?

Jojobobo · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:19 pm **Post subject:**

*records dates of birth for fraudulent purposes*

Smuel · **Joined:** Feb 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1047

A much more fun game would be for us to try to guess other people's ages. Of course, that only works for those that haven't given away blatant clues such as "I'm at university", or "I was born exactly 49 days after this famous person died."

Constipation · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:34 pm **Post subject:**

I'll start with Arthgon. Five.

wayne-scales · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:34 pm **Post subject:**

Being at university isn't an indication of any specific age over about 18 or 19.

Smuel · **Joined:** Feb 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1047

Technically no, but in practice it's a fairly specific range.

Grakelin · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:33 pm **Post subject:**

Wouldn't we technically need to find the date of our conception? Or do Buddhists ascribe that our spirit flies into our open, wailing mouths as we are born?

werozzi · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:59 pm **Post subject:**

In my last life i think i was Smuel's mother

Grossenschwamm · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:59 am **Post subject:**

Dark Elf wrote:

Why the fuck was I this dude?

Sponge wrote:

Robert E. Howard

You were born in 1936?

I just checked that out, that's a huge discrepancy in the online source I used to find Agent Cleary. I also found the same discrepancy here.

Because if a guy commits suicide at 30, he totally lived for another 50 years.

Dark Elf · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:36 am **Post subject:**

Well, he WAS on good terms with H.P. Lovecraft...

Arthgon · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:43 pm **Post subject:**

Well. I did enter my birthday date and subtracted 49 days afterwards.

Gross: Robert E. Howard? Awesome writer.

magikot · **Joined:** Aug 29, 2003 **Posts:** 1670

If we go with date of conception, I was either him, him, or since I was born a day late, I could have been the founder of mcdonald's.

Smuel · **Joined:** Feb 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1047

Yes, let's go with the date of conception.

Jojobobo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:57 pm **Post subject:**

Do many people actually know there date of conception? I could approximate mine but it wouldn't be a sure thing.

Smuel · **Joined:** Feb 22, 2011 **Posts:** 1047

No, I can't remember the date of your conception. I was pretty drunk that night.

Dark Elf · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:20 pm **Post subject:**

I remember my conception. The evening started with me going to the Ball of the Balls trying to hook up with a passably looking X-spermatozoon. Eventually, I managed to get one hot piece of centriole sufficiently drunk on alcohol and rape drugs to take with me home. That's when all hell began, for we'd just made it to the parking lot when we were forcibly squeezed through some fucking tube and stranded in some foreign environment, along with untold millions.

Now, I instinctively knew that hope lay further down the chasm, and made a run for it. No way I was going to be anywhere but in the lead.

I swam like the Devil, and just when I thought I was going to win, my lady of the night zoomed past me. Who would have thought that someone high as a house on roofies could swim that fast?

Saw no other recourse but to shiv the bitch's flagellum. Women will never learn.

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