Gyrfalcon: Gordon Bennett: When I was very young, I wanted to be a cat.


I don't think that is going to happen.

I still want to be a cat, specifically MY cat.

/spoiled biatch kitty

Good news: there are several theories of re-incarnation in which you can be your own cat. According to one of them, there is only one soul in the Universe which keeps itself amused by being everybody in succession. This I call the SolepcismTheory, from the idea that there is a sole mind (or sole soul) in the real world.

According to another theory, when and where you are reincarnated is entirely independent of your "past" life. You can be reincarnated before your present life as well as after, so your next life might overlap with your present life--you could be two or more people at the same time, even. This may explain some great love affairs. I call this the Narcissist Theory.

Also, if the multi-verse theory of many worlds is correct, there is a near-infinity of Other Earths. You could be reincarnated in the world over and over again until you get it right. This is one of my favourite theories of how the Universe could be perfected without Intelligent intervention--trail and error may be slow, but it gets the job done. I call that the Infinite Monkeys theory.

Another multi-verse theory is that you can be reincarnated in different universe. This is very much the same as the other theories in that you can be more than one person or the same person more than once even. This explains déja-vu, so I call it the déja-vu theory. In this case, you can be your own cat, living exactly the same life or a different life with some slight or great differences. The smallest difference possible--the change of a single moment or sub-atomic particle, means that many of these lives would be indistinguishable except to the eye of God, so you can not only be your own cat, you can be an infinite regression of cats and selves, all different in some minute and undefinable way.

The moral of all this metaphysical speculation is clear: Never give up the dream.

You don't have to be God to get what you want, but it helps.

Space, time and reincarnation produce some pretty strange theories, but they do tend to collapse into pretty much the same thing, not unlike Quantum Mechanical wave functions. Perhaps they are all true, in which case string theory is probably all true as well, which is just as well because scientists are having a hard time to decide between the 36 different varieties. A lot of these theories can only be tested at the moment with thought experiments and math, and that's just too slow for lovers, dreamers and me.

plc5_250: No, I really can't anymore.

My childhood dream was to mix sound live for Queen.

Ever since 24-November 1991, that has been impossible. Oh well...

Don't be so picky. There are plenty of Queen Tribute bands out there. Go mix sound for them. You may need a good hiding place for the sound-mixer, but he'll probably be easy to knock out. Just offer him a beer that's been injected with knock out drops. Put him in an over-sized burlap bag back-stage or somewhere.

It's not rocket science. I worked it out in seconds, as well as a plan to turn a Swiss mountain stronghold into an aircraft base for Harrier jump jets. (F-35s might attract a bit of attention from Congress.)

Smeggy Smurf: All I wanted to be was happy and touch boobs.

Sorry, kid. You can't go home again. Unless time starts running backwards or you're Benjamin Button.

brantgoose: Smeggy Smurf: All I wanted to be was happy and touch boobs.

Sorry, kid. You can't go home again. Unless time starts running backwards or you're Benjamin Button.

Home hasn't been my hometown since '94. Home is here. Here is where my wife is. I touch her boobs. I'm happy. I win.