Dorian Requiem
What Spiral said.
After that, any explaination I've come across doesn't strike me as anything special, usually due to a lack of explaination about the uniqueness of the occurence.
"It's being something else in a humans body." That would require that there is something to souls as there is to species, which most people seem to go for the amorphous blob type souls. Assuming there is something like species for souls, there would have to be a garden variety that makes up the majority of people here now for anyone to be special. Also, this would have implications about being incarnate not being about experiencing, since being in the wrong type of body implies that different souls are ment for certain incarnate forms.
"It's what you were in your last life." The majority of people who are alive would have to be on their first life for this to make people 'special'. And it seems if that's the case, anything beyond simply having a past life is extra detail on being special.
"It's what you were in a previous life." Same as above, but it seems more likely to be less special for people who've had alot of lives, which could potentially be alot of people.
"It's what your true form is." This is about the same as the last life one, except to be special, it'd mean alot of people either don't have souls, or have souls that are of a garden variety in 'form'.
It gets easier to argue with more detail about a person beliefs, or perfered ideas, or to atleast set up hypothetical possibilities.
I don't really find the idea implausible, but it seems to beg someone to play devils advocate (to me).
After that, any explaination I've come across doesn't strike me as anything special, usually due to a lack of explaination about the uniqueness of the occurence.
"It's being something else in a humans body." That would require that there is something to souls as there is to species, which most people seem to go for the amorphous blob type souls. Assuming there is something like species for souls, there would have to be a garden variety that makes up the majority of people here now for anyone to be special. Also, this would have implications about being incarnate not being about experiencing, since being in the wrong type of body implies that different souls are ment for certain incarnate forms.
"It's what you were in your last life." The majority of people who are alive would have to be on their first life for this to make people 'special'. And it seems if that's the case, anything beyond simply having a past life is extra detail on being special.
"It's what you were in a previous life." Same as above, but it seems more likely to be less special for people who've had alot of lives, which could potentially be alot of people.
"It's what your true form is." This is about the same as the last life one, except to be special, it'd mean alot of people either don't have souls, or have souls that are of a garden variety in 'form'.
It gets easier to argue with more detail about a person beliefs, or perfered ideas, or to atleast set up hypothetical possibilities.
I don't really find the idea implausible, but it seems to beg someone to play devils advocate (to me).
sounds about right.
