On 5 August 2014 08:48, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/4/2014 12:48 PM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: > >> Daughter: Daddy, daddy! Why wasn't I born beautiful and lucky like Kim >> Kardashian? >> >> Father: What? Surely no daughter of mine would take Kim Kardashian as a >> role model! >> >> Mother: But darling - she does! All outcomes happen. Somewhere. >> >> Daughter: Does that mean I'm a Kardashian somewhere? >> >> Mother: Yes, sweetie, somewhere you make the most amazing Kardashian. >> >> Daughter: Yay! >> >> Father: <sob> >> >> Mother: In fact, I bet there's somewhere far, far away where you are a >> mermaid, too. And somewhere else, you're an intrepid >> scientist-athlete-princess-explorer adventuring among the outer planets! >> > > Isn't it interesting that in these stories, like past-life regressions, > it's always better in some other life? >
Not just in "these stories". Until we reached the point that technology looked like it was actually improving life (when SF was invented, not coincidentally) people ALWAYS harked back to a "Golden Age". If past life regressions refer to a life earlier in the history of the human race (when one was (interestingly?) always Cleopatra or Helen of Troy rather than the 3rd slave on the left) then the truth would be that it was very ungolden, not even tin-plated, what with the lack of medicine, dentistry, decent toilets, much of a lifespan, and so on. I constantly thank God, or rather Newton et al, that I live in a period of technological advancement that hasn't (yet) managed to destroy the world. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
