This is the problem with folks who boast about their "past lives".
They always claim to be an unbroken string of notable, famous celebrities. EVERYBODY claims they were Julius Caesar and Cleopatra and John the Baptist*.
Never do you hear these arrogant twitwhistles claim "Oh, I was an illiterate peasant who died from the plague....then I was reincarnated and became a different illiterate peasant who died of the plague....and after that, yep, another illiterate peasant...I spent a hundred incarnations being an irrelevant forgotten cog in the wheels of fate."
But lets assume for a moment that he WAS Julius Caesar in a previous life.
Now consider how he is now an impotent fringe player with no glory, fame or power. Wouldn't that imply he was
demoted ?
Isn't that how it works? ie. If you fuck up....you come back as something further down the totem pole, and if you keep fucking up, you eventually fall further and further down the food chain.
The implied timeline of his incarnations -- ignoring his self-aggrandizing propaganda -- would be like this
- Brad entered existence as an ameoba
- he gets promoted to slug
- he gets promoted to mouse
- he gets promoted to dog
- he gets promoted to monkey
- he gets promoted to illiterate peasant human
- he gets promoted to merchant class human
- he gets promoted to equestrian class human
- he comes back as Julius Caesar....somehow fucks it up and get demoted.
- repeats steps 2-8 a few dozen times.
The problem here isn't just his lying assertion that he kept getting reincarnated as somebody awesome every single fucking lifetime; it that the awesome people he claimed to have been would all be foundationally and fundamentally at odds with each other philosophically.
In other words, though it might be plausible for him to be a brash and arrogant war hero for a oppressive regime in one lifetime and then be a pacifistic introvert opposed to that regime in the next. But it is
implausible that he
switches back and forth from lifetime to lifetime.
Thats not a character arc or the accretion of wisdom....that is signs of a psychopathic failure to learn anything. Which makes his claims of being reincarnated pointless. Why bother claiming to have lived many lives if you learned less than nothing from it**.
*overlooking that all three lived simultaneously.
**Hint: he refuses to learn anything from anyone else in this thread; why would he learn anything over an entire lifetime?
