Old souls

[Ninurta]

So if reincarnation is a thing, where did all those extra souls suddenly come from?

I think it's possible they volunteered to come here from other planets. (Howard Menger)

I can't place much stock in Mr. Menger. When he made the claim that his aliens came from Venus, he kind of crapped the nest for me.

Be that as it may, the world population boom IS a sight to behold. When I was born, I think there were about 3  billion people on it, and just in my lifetime, so far, that has damn near tripled. Some good, some not good at all. I sometimes wonder if some of those extra souls aren't really just evil spirits animating human bodies.

I've known about there not being enough time for humanity to develop for a long time. the vast majority of mutations are detrimental to life, and are not passed on because the organism dies from it before it procreates. On average, it takes about 20,000 years for a beneficial mutation to occur, so from a purely natural selection standpoint, the age of the Earth at 4 1/2 billion years is not enough time for a human to have developed from a chimpanzee or whatever, so that pretty much closes the books, for me, on the notion of evolution as an answer for how humans developed on Earth. There pretty much had to be a creative of guiding hand for us to even exist at all at a level that would even wonder about it.

I don't know anything about "auras". I'm not even sure I have one - at least no one has ever told me they could see it. I never paid much attention to it. It sounds pretty New Age-ey to me.

I've never found my "place in life" or "calling" or whatever you want to call it. Most of the time, I've just done whatever there was to be done. A large part of my life has involved carrying a gun for a living, but there have also been stints as a radio DJ, a warehouseman, a landscaper, a manager, a "team leader" and so on. The best way to put it I reckon is to say that I don't know what I want to do when I grow up... and I'm getting a bit too long in the tooth to make that sort of a decision now, so I just roll with whatever comes along. I'm not rich, never have been, and have never wanted to be - money is just something else to worry over, and life is too short for that kind of foolishness. So I think it is fair to say I'm not "special", except maybe in the short-bus sense of the term.

I don't know what an "indigo child" is, either. That's right up there with auras for me, just some more New-Agey stuff that I'd never be able to comprehend.

On that note, an ex-military friend once told me, "I think that one of the most dangerous and destructive thoughts in our times is that any one person is “special” in any way. That thought is used to justify everything from grotesque greed to heinous acts of mass violence." 

He's absolutely right. There are just too many of us for any one to be "special". Now some folks are rich, and some folks are powerful, but that doesn't make them "special" except in their own eyes. Quite a lot of those "special" folks (rich and/or powerful) have created all manner of misery among human-kind in their quest to gather even MORE riches or power, which they normally have to take from someone or someones else to get. Personally, I think those questing for glory, riches, or power are really doing it out in fear and insecurity. Only fear or insecurity cause one to have a "need" to control everything around them - they're just small children trying to create their own safe space in an unsafe world by trying to make all the other humans do their bidding.

My second wife once told me that all women want is security, and that money equals security, and that was why women sought out rich men or men they though were capable of getting rich. As it turned out, she eventually divorced me because I had no desire at all to be rich or powerful. I have a hard enough time controlling myself - why the hell would I want to control  and micromanage everyone else around me too? Who needs those kinds of headaches?

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