# Do you believe in past lives?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-believe-in-past-lives/648137 "2013-01-23T19:02:18Z")\
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Dang, I found that [older post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14864968&postcount=124) (March 2012). The last post from the thread, [“Nobody really knows what happens after death.” Is that just pc BS?"](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=644665&highlight=existence)

> [@"Nobody really knows what happens after death." Is that just pc BS?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-really-knows-what-happens-after-death-is-that-just-pc-bs/615278/124):
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> I think we can universally say, “Great, I’ll have to sit through The Phantom Menace again.”
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> **Or, it could be there’s only one absolute consciousness, which is embodied by every living, sentient thing, with no memories of other lives. You’re you _now_, but were and will be a neanderthal ages ago, a slug, Your mom, Ghandi, Adolf Hitler, Jolene Blalock, Lindsey Lohan, some person eviscerated in medival times, Glenn Beck, Abraham Lincoln, me, Ann Coulter, her poor cat, and so on, ad infinitum.**
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> The. Horror.

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