This is a scenario I've read in a number of Reincarnation and NDE cases. Person dies, goes to some place full of light, it feels all warm and fuzzy, they have absolutely no intention of leaving, but are told they have to or are forced to by someone else. I don't know about anyone else on the forum, but doesn't that override all of the love and light stuff? Isn't trying to argue that it's a good thing just a form of Stockholm Syndrome and Learned Helplessness? I mean these are people who had no intention of going back, what possible right could any other entity have to just shove them back in their body? What possible obligation could the person have to reincarnate?
I'd argue they have none. Granted I argue rights don't exist at all, only power. Therefore all those feelings of overwhelming love and peace are the equivalent of the candy strangers use to lure kids into vans. I'm also coming at this from a lot of my own experience with the paranormal. Which, although being overall very mixed, has included a lot of physical injuries caused by self entitled people on other planes of existence. It's practically a tradition at this point that every time I leave my body something either tries to eat or kill me, shove me back in, or otherwise tells me I can't leave. Sometime I can't leave because I'm, presumably, not "allowed" to leave. During the times I've gotten the closest I still haven't managed it because I've never been able to cut the connection to my body for some reason. And I once tried to cut it with a sword, which paradoxically made me dissolve and return to my body even faster.
I've semi-successfully tried to leave and "go home" probably around 30 times at this point. I've tried everything short of actual suicide which I straight up will not do since it would defeat the entire point. Dreamsoap used to pull me out of my body and hand me off to our mutual friend who were never able to stabilise me. So i'd just slowly, painfully, melt away until I went unconscious and woke up back in my body. She did that close to a dozen times.
We've both taken a very, literally, combative stance against a lot of this stuff. Every time we see another story about someone who got shoved back in or told "it's not your time yet" or anything else without any justification that didn't amount to "Because I told you so" it annoys us and reminds us why we are so invested in magic. If there's people out there who are capable of picking and choosing merely because they'e more powerful then effective means of self defence need to be developed to mitigate that. It doesn't matter how important they think they are, or what lessons they think other people need to learn. Or how they think those people need to learn them, It's not their existence, and no amount of power will change that. If they believe so strongly that life needs to be lived a certain way then they can come down here themselves and live it and leave everyone else alone. Otherwise they can't be surprised when someone eventually does a number of unpleasant things to them against their will. After all they certainly didn't have a problem with it when they had the power, why would it be any different when the roles were reversed unless they're complete hypocrites?
Sorry for this being a bit ranty and rambly and yes I fully admit I can't back up any of the paranormal stuff with proper lab certified evidence. Nor do I expect anyone to believe it. But that's where I'm coming from on this regardless, and I'm curious what other peoples opinions on it are.
I'd argue they have none. Granted I argue rights don't exist at all, only power. Therefore all those feelings of overwhelming love and peace are the equivalent of the candy strangers use to lure kids into vans. I'm also coming at this from a lot of my own experience with the paranormal. Which, although being overall very mixed, has included a lot of physical injuries caused by self entitled people on other planes of existence. It's practically a tradition at this point that every time I leave my body something either tries to eat or kill me, shove me back in, or otherwise tells me I can't leave. Sometime I can't leave because I'm, presumably, not "allowed" to leave. During the times I've gotten the closest I still haven't managed it because I've never been able to cut the connection to my body for some reason. And I once tried to cut it with a sword, which paradoxically made me dissolve and return to my body even faster.
I've semi-successfully tried to leave and "go home" probably around 30 times at this point. I've tried everything short of actual suicide which I straight up will not do since it would defeat the entire point. Dreamsoap used to pull me out of my body and hand me off to our mutual friend who were never able to stabilise me. So i'd just slowly, painfully, melt away until I went unconscious and woke up back in my body. She did that close to a dozen times.
We've both taken a very, literally, combative stance against a lot of this stuff. Every time we see another story about someone who got shoved back in or told "it's not your time yet" or anything else without any justification that didn't amount to "Because I told you so" it annoys us and reminds us why we are so invested in magic. If there's people out there who are capable of picking and choosing merely because they'e more powerful then effective means of self defence need to be developed to mitigate that. It doesn't matter how important they think they are, or what lessons they think other people need to learn. Or how they think those people need to learn them, It's not their existence, and no amount of power will change that. If they believe so strongly that life needs to be lived a certain way then they can come down here themselves and live it and leave everyone else alone. Otherwise they can't be surprised when someone eventually does a number of unpleasant things to them against their will. After all they certainly didn't have a problem with it when they had the power, why would it be any different when the roles were reversed unless they're complete hypocrites?
Sorry for this being a bit ranty and rambly and yes I fully admit I can't back up any of the paranormal stuff with proper lab certified evidence. Nor do I expect anyone to believe it. But that's where I'm coming from on this regardless, and I'm curious what other peoples opinions on it are.
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