Every believed in past life? Sylvester Stallone remembers losing his head at French Revolution

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4iMbWUJ8eg

 

12: 04 Stallone recounts past life in an interview with people's magazine. 

[Misty Shadow 7,869]

Kind of. It makes me feel I'm crazy sometimes, but I occasionally get this weird feeling when I'm bed at night trying to sleep that I lived a past life as a serial killer. No, I'm not playing anyone for shock value, it is a genuine, disturbing thought that I have a tough time shaking sometimes.

[TBD 17,254]

Not really, can't say.  While  it's interesting to listen to these stories, I just think its a bit vague and over our head. I do think kids are more capable of being exposed to  supernatural than an adult would. But when it comes to hypnotizing  to help you to remember your "past life"  I won't buy it. It's a bit sketchy, because you're paying to get your mind screwed.

[SharpWit 2,648]

Guess I'll break down this video

Spoiler

 

First story, Incense maker. A girl from Shri Lanka apparently knows how to make incense without ever having been taught. I myself have never been taught, but I'm going to take a guess that they mix a form of pitch with crushed up flowers, herbs, and spices, and maybe also a slow burning base to hold it together. A quick google search tells me that this is relatively close. They extract tree resins and fragrant oils and have that mixed in with a sawdust paste. How was I able to figure this out? Simply by reverse engineering and using basic knowledge. It's basically asking yourself, what burns, has strong smells, and can be formed on a small stick. The claim that she was a man who made incense and was killed by a bus in a past life is easy to dismiss. India has one of largest populations in the world. Somewhere, someone is going to fit your story. All it takes is a vague description. We should also remember that accounts from children are often not completely accurate. Their brains aren't fully developed, they have vivid imaginations, and lapses in memory that they fill in the gaps with.

Second story, Nazi Airman. An English boy believed he was previously a German pilot during WW2 and died after being shot down. As an adult he was murdered by a coworker, and near the site of his death, a German plane was found. They were able to track down who the pilot had been and they say that the pilot and this man look surprisingly similar. The only similarity I see is they have long noses and are white. They clearly have very different features. There's no such thing as an end to WW2 media. I think nearly every young boy from a country directly involved in the fighting has played while pretending to be a soldier in that war, or at the very least exposed to visuals from it. If you live in an area where the fighting took place, something from the conflict is bound to be found nearby. I disregarded the mentioning of birthmarks in the first story where they say the person has one in the same area that the deceased suffered an injury. The pilot had a severed leg and the guy happened to have a birth mark on the same leg where it was severed. Birthmarks are caused by improper forming of blood vessels and the overgrowth of cells creating pigment. They're not an unexplained phenomenon.

Third story, little boy recalls being the writer for the film, "Gone with the Wind". Parents ask him for some details and when they looked up the writer for that movie, the details line up. It's not very many details however, and it's mostly vague. Yes details narrow down a search but look at it like this. You begin with a really long list of people. If you picture those people as lottery tickets, as the winning numbers are announced you narrow down the winner, and there will always be a winner. With people you might even find a handful that match your description.

Fourth story, another little boy, this time in turkey, says he was a man who was shot in the head by his neighbor. The kid visited the widow of the man and her now grown up children, told them they were his family and that the reason he was killed because of a dispute over a donkey eating from the other's field. The neighbor still claims that the death was an accident. This is the first story where someone involved disagrees with the account. Oh but get this. The boys mom who loved in the next town over says she had a dream where the man appeared with a bloody face while she was pregnant, and as soon as he could talk he claimed to be that man. Local deaths often have an impact on the community. This is something that everyone knew about and they milked a story of their own out of it.

Fifth story, set of girl twins are the reincarnations of their dead elder sisters. The elder sisters were killed after being hit by a car and the parents soon after had the twins who eerily looked similar. Of course they would look like your deceased daughters, it's the same genetics! The girls go on to "recognize" land marks, their school and stuffed animals, names and all from their sisters. The girls even went so far as to say they had nightmares of being hit by a car. All I see here is parents failing to cope with a tragedy. There's a trend here I've not mentioned. You can clearly see one between parents and their children, but also when they get older, they seem to no longer recall their past lives or they stop addressing them.

Now we're onto the celebrities and historical figures section.

Starting off with Phil Collins! Looks like we'll be feeling something in the air tonight, and it's memories of being present at the Alamo. He has a large collection of artifacts from the battle that he's purchased over time and distinctly remembers feeling the urge to burn his toy soldiers as a child. Why is that last fact significant? Well the Mexican general ordered that the bodies of the defenders be cremated, and this is why he thinks he had that urge. But the host explain how they themselves would take magnifying glasses to their toy soldiers or strap firecrackers to them which kids do all of the time. In addition, you're supposed to dispose of bodies after a battle and mass cremation is an efficient way of doing so. If you don't you run the risk of getting sick and attracting vermin.

 

Stallone says in the article that he believes he was a wolf, that he lost his head in the French revolution, and that he might have been a monkey from Guatemala. It's not the focus of the article and the only part really explored is that he was reading up on an aspect of the revolution and it came up during a discussion at a party. Someone says it would be awful to be guillotined which he disagrees with, for the reasoning that he thinks he knows what it would feel like. There's really not anything to go off of here.

https://people.com/archive/cover-story-box-office-champ-vol-17-no-24/

Spoiler

Next up we have Napoleon thinking he was Charlemagne and Patton thinking he was a whole slew of warriors from the past. Military leaders with great success often draw parallels between them and former conquerors. Patton was probably reading up on various historical figures and saw a bit of himself in them or aspired to be them so he just outright adopted their identities as his of the past.

Reincarnation does not exist. What children say cannot be completely trusted as I have said and shall repeat, because their brains aren't fully developed, their memories are subject to lapse and their vivid imaginations will fill the gaps. They play pretend all the time just as many of us are here with our Pony OCs. The difference is that we know the difference between what's real and what isn't, and hopefully we don't have parents feeding us ideas they shouldn't. The tales we're provided are often too vague, not credible, and often forgotten over time. There's no evidence to suggest any truth to them.

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5 minutes ago, SharpWit said:

Guess I'll break down this video

  Reveal hidden contents

 

First story, Incense maker. A girl from Shri Lanka apparently knows how to make incense without ever having been taught. I myself have never been taught, but I'm going to take a guess that they mix a form of pitch with crushed up flowers, herbs, and spices, and maybe also a slow burning base to hold it together. A quick google search tells me that this is relatively close. They extract tree resins and fragrant oils and have that mixed in with a sawdust paste. How was I able to figure this out? Simply by reverse engineering and using basic knowledge. It's basically asking yourself, what burns, has strong smells, and can be formed on a small stick. The claim that she was a man who made incense and was killed by a bus in a past life is easy to dismiss. India has one of largest populations in the world. Somewhere, someone is going to fit your story. All it takes is a vague description. We should also remember that accounts from children are often not completely accurate. Their brains aren't fully developed, they have vivid imaginations, and lapses in memory that they fill in the gaps with.

Second story, Nazi Airman. An English boy believed he was previously a German pilot during WW2 and died after being shot down. As an adult he was murdered by a coworker, and near the site of his death, a German plane was found. They were able to track down who the pilot had been and they say that the pilot and this man look surprisingly similar. The only similarity I see is they have long noses and are white. They clearly have very different features. There's no such thing as an end to WW2 media. I think nearly every young boy from a country directly involved in the fighting has played while pretending to be a soldier in that war, or at the very least exposed to visuals from it. If you live in an area where the fighting took place, something from the conflict is bound to be found nearby. I disregarded the mentioning of birthmarks in the first story where they say the person has one in the same area that the deceased suffered an injury. The pilot had a severed leg and the guy happened to have a birth mark on the same leg where it was severed. Birthmarks are caused by improper forming of blood vessels and the overgrowth of cells creating pigment. They're not an unexplained phenomenon.

Third story, little boy recalls being the writer for the film, "Gone with the Wind". Parents ask him for some details and when they looked up the writer for that movie, the details line up. It's not very many details however, and it's mostly vague. Yes details narrow down a search but look at it like this. You begin with a really long list of people. If you picture those people as lottery tickets, as the winning numbers are announced you narrow down the winner, and there will always be a winner. With people you might even find a handful that match your description.

Fourth story, another little boy, this time in turkey, says he was a man who was shot in the head by his neighbor. The kid visited the widow of the man and her now grown up children, told them they were his family and that the reason he was killed because of a dispute over a donkey eating from the other's field. The neighbor still claims that the death was an accident. This is the first story where someone involved disagrees with the account. Oh but get this. The boys mom who loved in the next town over says she had a dream where the man appeared with a bloody face while she was pregnant, and as soon as he could talk he claimed to be that man. Local deaths often have an impact on the community. This is something that everyone knew about and they milked a story of their own out of it.

Fifth story, set of girl twins are the reincarnations of their dead elder sisters. The elder sisters were killed after being hit by a car and the parents soon after had the twins who eerily looked similar. Of course they would look like your deceased daughters, it's the same genetics! The girls go on to "recognize" land marks, their school and stuffed animals, names and all from their sisters. The girls even went so far as to say they had nightmares of being hit by a car. All I see here is parents failing to cope with a tragedy. There's a trend here I've not mentioned. You can clearly see one between parents and their children, but also when they get older, they seem to no longer recall their past lives or they stop addressing them.

Now we're onto the celebrities and historical figures section.

Starting off with Phil Collins! Looks like we'll be feeling something in the air tonight, and it's memories of being present at the Alamo. He has a large collection of artifacts from the battle that he's purchased over time and distinctly remembers feeling the urge to burn his toy soldiers as a child. Why is that last fact significant? Well the Mexican general ordered that the bodies of the defenders be cremated, and this is why he thinks he had that urge. But the host explain how they themselves would take magnifying glasses to their toy soldiers or strap firecrackers to them which kids do all of the time. In addition, you're supposed to dispose of bodies after a battle and mass cremation is an efficient way of doing so. If you don't you run the risk of getting sick and attracting vermin.

 

Stallone says in the article that he believes he was a wolf, that he lost his head in the French revolution, and that he might have been a monkey from Guatemala. It's not the focus of the article and the only part really explored is that he was reading up on an aspect of the revolution and it came up during a discussion at a party. Someone says it would be awful to be guillotined which he disagrees with, for the reasoning that he thinks he knows what it would feel like. There's really not anything to go off of here.

https://people.com/archive/cover-story-box-office-champ-vol-17-no-24/

  Reveal hidden contents

Next up we have Napoleon thinking he was Charlemagne and Patton thinking he was a whole slew of warriors from the past. Military leaders with great success often draw parallels between them and former conquerors. Patton was probably reading up on various historical figures and saw a bit of himself in them or aspired to be them so he just outright adopted their identities as his of the past.

Reincarnation does not exist. What children say cannot be completely trusted as I have said and shall repeat, because their brains aren't fully developed, their memories are subject to lapse and their vivid imaginations will fill the gaps. They play pretend all the time just as many of us are here with our Pony OCs. The difference is that we know the difference between what's real and what isn't, and hopefully we don't have parents feeding us ideas they shouldn't. The tales we're provided are often too vague, not credible, and often forgotten over time. There's no evidence to suggest any truth to them.

You pretty much sum it up for me, moreover, I always thought patton was a bit full of himself. 

[Appley Hooves 136]

Soooo he lost his head in the Revolution but got lots of it in this life...

Hoookay then 

*flees teh banhammer* 

[Rainbow Dash 1,472]

Highly doubtful that anyone can have a past life. In fact most of those quizzes are based of of wide generalizations. Furthermore, they give you answers they think the actual person would answer.

Its like..."Oh, you like cherry trees? YOURE GEORGE WASHINGTON!"
 

If we did have past lifes we wouldnt forget about it ALL. Thered be some traces.

[Dreambiscuit 9,691]

It's interesting to think about, but I tend to think that some memories can be passed down genetically from one's ancestors. And people who believe they're remembering past lives are possibly just seeing someone else's memories. It seems far-fetched in many ways, but residual memories are a possible theory worth considering. It would account for people who can speak foreign languages and perform specialized tasks they've never learned in their own lifetime. 

Others, like Patton for example, are probably mixing up their own experiences and perceptions with historical figures they've read about, identify with, and spent a lot of time thinking about or emulating. The human brain is a strange thing; reality, fantasy and just false memories can be tricky to decipher and differentiate. 

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16 hours ago, CloudMistDragon said:

Kind of. It makes me feel I'm crazy sometimes, but I occasionally get this weird feeling when I'm bed at night trying to sleep that I lived a past life as a serial killer. No, I'm not playing anyone for shock value, it is a genuine, disturbing thought that I have a tough time shaking sometimes.

oh wow, hopefully you can get rid of it soon.

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

I sometimes dream of my past life as a pony, as Midnight Solace. Still can't tell if it's true or not. Reality is very distorted for me.