Given my birthday is June 4, 1999 - exactly ten years to the day of the Tiananmen massacre - I believe I was very likely at Tiananmen in a past life.

When I visited India, I met many Tibetan Buddhist friends who suggested this idea to me and I have come to agree with them. The coincidence is too big to ignore.

I also believe I may have been African American in a past life because all my favourite artists from the time I was three years old have been African American and I always identified with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr from the time I was a child. Just a thought

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    Given my birthday is September 11, 2011 - exactly ten years to the day of the 9/11 attack - I believe I was very likely at the WTC in a past life.

    When I visited America, I met many Ski-Doo dealer friends who suggested this idea to me and I have come to agree with them. The coincidence is too big to ignore.

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      I have always preferred wholegrain flour, even since I was a baby. All of the adults in my life remarked on how I would refuse to eat white bread.

      In Hindi, the word for wholegrain flour is “Atta” and in my travels through India I had many Indians insist upon my affinity with the word Atta.

      I have come to the understanding that, given these facts and the date of my birth, I am most likely the reincarnation of Mohammed Atta. The coincidence is too big to ignore.

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    I’m annoyed by the dumb suggestion that “ten years” and reincarnation are connected… If he had at least been born 49 days after.

    And 100,000+ people are born any given day.

    I’m normally good at not being baited when someone says a stupid thing on the internet.

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    In Tibetan Buddhism, a human rebirth takes 49 days between your death and the path through the Bardo. Of course this is nonsense and that number is disputed in Tibetan theology but there’s no particular reason why being born 10 years after an event in history is significant.

    If we go by Tibetan Buddhist writings, it’s far more likely that he didn’t have two consecutive human incarnations.

    According to the Buddha himself, human reincarnations are more rare than the chances of a blind, crippled turtle that lives at the bottom of the ocean rising only once every century to take a breath finding itself sticking its head through a yoke that happens to be floating on the ocean’s surface. To have two consecutive human incarnations would require that you are basically one notch below a lama who is so accomplished as to be able to choose their reincarnation, which is extremely unlikely.

    I get that this is on the same tier as debating about the number of angels that could dance on the head of a pin but it’s worth noting that him invoking Tibetan Buddhism and telling himself that he was a valiant resistor against the tyranny of the CCP is just baseless self-flattery of the highest order.

    No Tibetan Buddhist who is familiar with that particular brand of theology is suggesting this idea to you, mate.