Past Lives

[baleanoptera]

Stumbled across this while reading about World War II:

The Seven Past Lives of General George S. Patton

1.) A prehistoric mammoth hunter
2.) A Greek hoplite who fought the Persians
3.) A soldier of Alexander the Great at the siege of Tyre
4.) Hannibal
5.) A Roman legionary under Julius Caesar
6.) An English knight during the Hundred Years' War
7.) A Napoleonic marshal

I think #4 is my favourite, and that it is possibly an elephant joke waiting to happen. Sadly I'm to tired or just to lacking imagination to come up with one. ;)

Comments

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Who decided these were his past lives? I'm so confused. *g*

[baleanoptera.livejournal.com]

I think he did actually. ;D Apparently he was a great believer in reincarnation, and saw himself as a "constant soldier always in war".

It always strikes me as odd that so few were farmers or beggars in the past lives. ;)

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, thanks for clarifying. And I, too, always get a chuckle over the fact that no one was ever the maid. I was probably a stablehand, or maybe a taxi driver. *g*

[baleanoptera.livejournal.com]

See, when I read the entry today I saw that it suffered a little form lack of context - but oh well.


And I, too, always get a chuckle over the fact that no one was ever the maid. I was probably a stablehand, or maybe a taxi driver. *g*

Yup, if I had to guess I was probably a farmer or a cleaning lady.

I've always wondered though what would happen if two people who both claimed they had been,say, Marie Antoinette met. Would they argue? Would they agree her soul had possibly been split? Would they fight it out and eat cake brioche?