If you could be reincarnated as anything... - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

YzermanS19 · 04-23-2003, 10:07 AM

...what would you be?

I've been learning about the Tibetan Buddhism, and I think its very interesting.

This question assumes that you have enough Karma to actually make it to that form.

Personally, I'd like to try life out as a woman. Either a woman, or a dolphin.

What would you be if you could be reincarnated as anything you like?

Liquor Dealer · 04-23-2003, 10:11 AM

Not meaning to appear irreverant but I've always had thoughts about a Thighmaster -

double · 04-23-2003, 10:12 AM

A large bird.

BBtB · 04-23-2003, 10:13 AM

HeyAgain · 04-23-2003, 10:13 AM

I think I would want to be reincarnated as a turtle since I will live a very simple existent and be protected by my hard shell.

The only thing I would be afraid of as a turtle is being killed to become some human's soup.

snowy · 04-23-2003, 10:16 AM

A cat. I already sleep a lot anyways...what's a few more hours?

louiedog · 04-23-2003, 10:20 AM

a gay bee (points to whoever gets the reference)

Grondar · 04-23-2003, 10:21 AM

A bird or a domesticated cat with great owners.

It also would be interesting to exprience life as the opposite sex (female), but I would rather be a bird or cat than a human again.

scarebearjinx · 04-23-2003, 10:34 AM

i'd have to say either a fox, a tree kangaroo, or a perigin falcon

sixate · 04-23-2003, 10:51 AM

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Originally posted by BastardStepChild
Not meaning to appear irreverant but I've always had thoughts about a Thighmaster -

Good one. I think I'd like that too.

bubbaspike · 04-23-2003, 11:08 AM

I'd like to be me again.
If I only knew then what I know now I'd do a few things differently

World's King · 04-23-2003, 11:46 AM

I wanna come back as myself again but with everything I learned from the previous life.

ARTelevision · 04-23-2003, 12:24 PM

i would not be reincarnated because it is an illusion as you know from reading Tibetan Buddhism

The point of all this is to end the cycle of rebirth, which is illusion, isn't it?

Rinndalir · 04-23-2003, 12:58 PM

A housecat...does it get any better? No worries except whether to chase the string or sleep some more, chicks go ga-ga over you, and an empty box is all you need to entertained for hours on end. Sure there's the whole licking yourself thing but no deal is perfect right?

louiedog · 04-23-2003, 01:41 PM

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Originally posted by Rinndalir
A housecat...does it get any better? No worries except whether to chase the string or sleep some more, chicks go ga-ga over you, and an empty box is all you need to entertained for hours on end. Sure there's the whole licking yourself thing but no deal is perfect right?

Too bad the dog always makes fun of you for being such a pussy.

(sorry, i couldn't help it with the pun)

sapiens · 04-23-2003, 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by World's King
I wanna come back as myself again but with everything I learned from the previous life.

Exactly what I was going to say.

SecretMethod70 · 04-23-2003, 02:30 PM

A female would be my first choice. Why only have one physiological perspective on humanity when you can have both? If not that, a tiger.

zf0enix · 04-23-2003, 02:33 PM

A Red tail hawk or an eagle. Man, I love those birds!

Why a Thighmaster? To be stuffed between some obese housewife's sweaty legs, then abandoned to the garage or a yard sale? Ewww.

YzermanS19 · 04-23-2003, 02:37 PM

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Originally posted by ARTelevision
i would not be reincarnated because it is an illusion as you know from reading Tibetan Buddhism

The point of all this is to end the cycle of rebirth, which is illusion, isn't it?

Ah yes, ART. However, we assume for this study that you can comeback with whatever you want, and it's not an illusion...

Karby · 04-23-2003, 02:40 PM

a panther...or a dolphin.

Frosstbyte · 04-23-2003, 02:47 PM

Siberian tiger. Damn I love those things.

XtremeSlacker · 04-23-2003, 03:03 PM

a porn star

Tophat665 · 04-23-2003, 03:12 PM

Hmm, I'm not ready to escape the wheel yet; I like it here, and that limits my karmic range considerably, probably putting all of the following out of reach:
- Myself with full memories (there would be some changes, oh yes.)
- Ron Jeremy at the beginning of his career
- Danni Ashe at the beginning of hers.
- Minor member of the house of Saud circa 1960 wouldn't be all that bad either.

ARTelevision · 04-23-2003, 03:43 PM

OK then, I would come back as a one-celled thing with minimal consciousness and then no more coming back, how's that?

phoenix1002 · 04-23-2003, 04:06 PM

Three guys are biking on a windy mountain road. They come around a corner, and WHAM! they are hit by a semi and all killed immediately. They're chillin' up in heaven, and God comes to them and says, "Hey guys, you know, I know I kinda screwed you on the whole life thing, so I'll make you a deal. I'll reincarnate you for another lifetime as whatever you want." The first guy says, "Gee, I've always wanted to know what it would be like to fly." So God turns him into a falcon, and he flies off. The second guy says, "You know, I've always wanted to run really fast." So God turns him into a cheetah, and he runs out of there. So the third guy says, "You know, I was always kinda a loser when I was alive, you know, bad with the ladies. I guess I'd really like to be a stud." So God grants him his desire, as well.
A few weeks later, God wants to know how the three guys are doing, so sends St. Peter out to check up on them. St. Peter comes back, and God asks him how the guys are doing. St. Peter replies, "Well, I finally found the first guy soaring around the Adirondacks. The second guy is running all over the place in the plains of Africa. The third guy? oh yeah, I think they just put him into that new development going up in south Jersey."

sorry, first thing that came to mind. I think I'd like to be either a Perigrine falcon, or a dolphin.

BubblegumTeflon · 04-23-2003, 04:17 PM

Dolphins have recreational sex, that's always fun. Then there's the crane, they are so long and pretty. I like the turtle selection HeyAgain, though I would stay away from China since they love your soup.

GuttersnipeXL · 04-23-2003, 04:20 PM

I'd like to be some kind of oceanic abyssal dwelling creature,[can I have a human brain?]...I'd like to see what goes on down there, and check out underwater land masses, because I'm a geology geek like that.

yournamehere · 04-23-2003, 04:27 PM

My personal beliefs on reincarnation espouse the fact that life is a ladder, with humans occupying the top rung, closest to enlightenment. Therefore, once we have reached human consciousness, we cannot move back down the ladder (well - I suppose some major fuckups could)

So my hope is that I return as a human, and learn more than I have on this trip.

pazza · 04-23-2003, 05:30 PM

i would come back as an eagle so i could fly around all day eating mice

Daval · 04-23-2003, 06:01 PM

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Originally posted by World's King
I wanna come back as myself again but with everything I learned from the previous life.

I too agree. This is what I would do as well...

CrazyDiamond · 04-23-2003, 06:05 PM

A mermaid... if there were mermen around that is

YzermanS19 · 04-23-2003, 06:17 PM

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Originally posted by ARTelevision
OK then, I would come back as a one-celled thing with minimal consciousness and then no more coming back, how's that?

Reach for that Astral level, ART

krwlz · 04-23-2003, 06:56 PM

gotta say a dog, you have absolutly no worries, i mean yea, dog food tastes like crap(i know) but hell, you get table scraps right? warm all winter, people paying attention to you....and also think about this, you can always smell your way to some willing, wanting bitches...

ranton · 04-23-2003, 07:23 PM

I would want to be Mother Nature, to have memories of all the wonders from the eons of time, to ponder and plan and nurture and destroy. To harness the forces and unleash the fury.

Gortexfogg · 04-23-2003, 07:23 PM

I'd come back as a fly. I'd live like a week and experience being squished ,which must be pretty interesting and painful.

YzermanS19 · 04-23-2003, 07:28 PM

I think a bird or bat might be cool. The thrill of flight would be very interesting.

krwlz · 04-23-2003, 07:29 PM

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Originally posted by ranton
I would want to be Mother Nature, to have memories of all the wonders from the eons of time, to ponder and plan and nurture and destroy. To harness the forces and unleash the fury.

way to much depth to that thought...i like it though! you could also finaly for sure solve the evolution/creation debate!

Snoogans · 04-24-2003, 12:09 AM

Unicron, that would be cool

LordEden · 04-24-2003, 12:13 AM

A large hunting cat... or I like the idea of coming back as me with everything I learned... I would choose that over anything else.

guthmund · 04-24-2003, 01:00 AM

I'd like to think that I've learned enough to be able to not be reincarnated.

But I'm pretty sure I won't have that problem, so I guess I'd come back as some sort of predatory bird.....preferably one protected by the government.....

04-23-2003, 10:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
YzermanS19 not your typical god-fearing junkie Location: State of Confusion	If you could be reincarnated as anything... ...what would you be? I've been learning about the Tibetan Buddhism, and I think its very interesting. This question assumes that you have enough Karma to actually make it to that form. Personally, I'd like to try life out as a woman. Either a woman, or a dolphin. What would you be if you could be reincarnated as anything you like? __________________ the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long and you have burned so very, very brightly

04-23-2003, 10:12 AM	#3 (permalink)
double Crazy Location: Helsinki	A large bird. __________________ Reach out and touch faith

04-23-2003, 10:13 AM	#4 (permalink)
BBtB ClerkMan! Location: Tulsa, Ok.	God __________________ Meridae'n once played "death" at a game of chess that lasted for over two years. He finally beat death in a best 34 out of 67 match. At that time he could ask for any one thing and he could wish for the hope of all mankind... he looked death right in the eye and said ... "I would like about three fiddy"

04-23-2003, 10:16 AM	#6 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	A cat. I already sleep a lot anyways...what's a few more hours? __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

04-23-2003, 10:21 AM	#8 (permalink)
Grondar Junkie Location: Pa, USA	A bird or a domesticated cat with great owners. It also would be interesting to exprience life as the opposite sex (female), but I would rather be a bird or cat than a human again. __________________ "Yes, I rather like this God fellow. He's very theatrical, you know, a pestilence here, a plague there. Omnipotence. Gotta get me some of that." -Stewie

04-23-2003, 10:11 AM	#2 (permalink)
Liquor Dealer Super Agitator Location: Just SW of Nowhere!!! In the good old US of A	Not meaning to appear irreverant but I've always had thoughts about a Thighmaster -

04-23-2003, 10:13 AM	#5 (permalink)
HeyAgain Psycho	I think I would want to be reincarnated as a turtle since I will live a very simple existent and be protected by my hard shell. The only thing I would be afraid of as a turtle is being killed to become some human's soup.

04-23-2003, 10:20 AM	#7 (permalink)
louiedog Crazy	a gay bee (points to whoever gets the reference)

04-23-2003, 10:34 AM	#9 (permalink)
scarebearjinx Psycho Location: in a deep, dark hole where rainbow creatures attack me to eat my fingernails.	i'd have to say either a fox, a tree kangaroo, or a perigin falcon

04-23-2003, 11:08 AM	#11 (permalink)
bubbaspike Psycho Location: neither here, nor there	I'd like to be me again. If I only knew then what I know now I'd do a few things differently __________________ Y'all watch this.......

04-23-2003, 11:46 AM	#12 (permalink)
World's King Here Location: Denver City Denver	I wanna come back as myself again but with everything I learned from the previous life. __________________ heavy is the head that wears the crown

04-23-2003, 12:24 PM	#13 (permalink)
ARTelevision I change Location: USA	i would not be reincarnated because it is an illusion as you know from reading Tibetan Buddhism The point of all this is to end the cycle of rebirth, which is illusion, isn't it? __________________ create evolution

04-23-2003, 12:58 PM	#14 (permalink)
Rinndalir Insane	A housecat...does it get any better? No worries except whether to chase the string or sleep some more, chicks go ga-ga over you, and an empty box is all you need to entertained for hours on end. Sure there's the whole licking yourself thing but no deal is perfect right?

04-23-2003, 02:30 PM	#17 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	A female would be my first choice. Why only have one physiological perspective on humanity when you can have both? If not that, a tiger. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

04-23-2003, 02:33 PM	#18 (permalink)
zf0enix Psycho Location: PacNW	A Red tail hawk or an eagle. Man, I love those birds! Why a Thighmaster? To be stuffed between some obese housewife's sweaty legs, then abandoned to the garage or a yard sale? Ewww. __________________ One step closer to the edge...

04-23-2003, 02:40 PM	#20 (permalink)
Karby Psycho Location: somewhere	a panther...or a dolphin. __________________ ~my karma ran over my dogma.~

04-23-2003, 03:03 PM	#22 (permalink)
XtremeSlacker Banned Location: The Moebius Continuum	a porn star

04-23-2003, 02:47 PM	#21 (permalink)
Frosstbyte Winter is Coming Location: The North	Siberian tiger. Damn I love those things.

04-23-2003, 03:12 PM	#23 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	Hmm, I'm not ready to escape the wheel yet; I like it here, and that limits my karmic range considerably, probably putting all of the following out of reach: - Myself with full memories (there would be some changes, oh yes.) - Ron Jeremy at the beginning of his career - Danni Ashe at the beginning of hers. - Minor member of the house of Saud circa 1960 wouldn't be all that bad either. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

04-23-2003, 03:43 PM	#24 (permalink)
ARTelevision I change Location: USA	OK then, I would come back as a one-celled thing with minimal consciousness and then no more coming back, how's that? __________________ create evolution

04-23-2003, 04:06 PM	#25 (permalink)
phoenix1002 Psycho Location: lost	Three guys are biking on a windy mountain road. They come around a corner, and WHAM! they are hit by a semi and all killed immediately. They're chillin' up in heaven, and God comes to them and says, "Hey guys, you know, I know I kinda screwed you on the whole life thing, so I'll make you a deal. I'll reincarnate you for another lifetime as whatever you want." The first guy says, "Gee, I've always wanted to know what it would be like to fly." So God turns him into a falcon, and he flies off. The second guy says, "You know, I've always wanted to run really fast." So God turns him into a cheetah, and he runs out of there. So the third guy says, "You know, I was always kinda a loser when I was alive, you know, bad with the ladies. I guess I'd really like to be a stud." So God grants him his desire, as well. A few weeks later, God wants to know how the three guys are doing, so sends St. Peter out to check up on them. St. Peter comes back, and God asks him how the guys are doing. St. Peter replies, "Well, I finally found the first guy soaring around the Adirondacks. The second guy is running all over the place in the plains of Africa. The third guy? oh yeah, I think they just put him into that new development going up in south Jersey." sorry, first thing that came to mind. I think I'd like to be either a Perigrine falcon, or a dolphin. __________________ I'd rather be climbing... I approach college much like a recovering alcoholic--one day at a time...

04-23-2003, 04:17 PM	#26 (permalink)
BubblegumTeflon Insane	Dolphins have recreational sex, that's always fun. Then there's the crane, they are so long and pretty. I like the turtle selection HeyAgain, though I would stay away from China since they love your soup.

04-23-2003, 04:20 PM	#27 (permalink)
GuttersnipeXL Giggity Giggity!! Location: N'York	I'd like to be some kind of oceanic abyssal dwelling creature,[can I have a human brain?]...I'd like to see what goes on down there, and check out underwater land masses, because I'm a geology geek like that. __________________ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. HST

04-23-2003, 04:27 PM	#28 (permalink)
yournamehere Invisible Location: tentative, at best	My personal beliefs on reincarnation espouse the fact that life is a ladder, with humans occupying the top rung, closest to enlightenment. Therefore, once we have reached human consciousness, we cannot move back down the ladder (well - I suppose some major fuckups could) So my hope is that I return as a human, and learn more than I have on this trip. __________________ If you want to avoid 95% of internet spelling errors: "If your ridiculous pants are too loose, you're definitely going to lose them. Tell your two loser friends over there that they're going to lose theirs, too." It won't hurt your fashion sense, either.

04-23-2003, 05:30 PM	#29 (permalink)
pazza Insane Location: Australia	i would come back as an eagle so i could fly around all day eating mice __________________ The above thoughts are not necessarily the thoughts of this user.

04-23-2003, 06:05 PM	#31 (permalink)
CrazyDiamond Upright	A mermaid... if there were mermen around that is __________________ I know milk does the body good, but damn! how much did you drink???

04-23-2003, 06:56 PM	#33 (permalink)
krwlz Fledgling Dead Head Location: Clarkson U.	gotta say a dog, you have absolutly no worries, i mean yea, dog food tastes like crap(i know) but hell, you get table scraps right? warm all winter, people paying attention to you....and also think about this, you can always smell your way to some willing, wanting bitches...

04-23-2003, 07:23 PM	#34 (permalink)
ranton Upright Location: Trigger, Pistol Grip, USA	I would want to be Mother Nature, to have memories of all the wonders from the eons of time, to ponder and plan and nurture and destroy. To harness the forces and unleash the fury.

04-23-2003, 07:23 PM	#35 (permalink)
Gortexfogg I and I Location: Stillwater, OK	I'd come back as a fly. I'd live like a week and experience being squished ,which must be pretty interesting and painful.

04-23-2003, 07:28 PM	#36 (permalink)
YzermanS19 not your typical god-fearing junkie Location: State of Confusion	I think a bird or bat might be cool. The thrill of flight would be very interesting. __________________ the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long and you have burned so very, very brightly

04-24-2003, 12:09 AM	#38 (permalink)
Snoogans Veteran Location: Uppsala, Sweden	Unicron, that would be cool __________________ Internet hint: If someone's asking if what they do is weird, it always is.

04-24-2003, 01:00 AM	#40 (permalink)
guthmund big damn hero	I'd like to think that I've learned enough to be able to not be reincarnated. But I'm pretty sure I won't have that problem, so I guess I'd come back as some sort of predatory bird.....preferably one protected by the government..... __________________ No signature. None. Seriously.