Reincarnation believers need to detox

I'm not slamming people who were raised in a reincarnation believing faith through no fault of their own. I am slamming new age slobs who adopt a self congratulatory belief in reincarnation (which does not exist in any circumstance).

It's quite a shock to come off your high horse and realize that you are no one "special" except that specialness that comes from being a unique and loved child of God. Sometimes your "specialness" comes from believing you are a reincarnated ex-holy person, royalty, alien or whatever. Other times your "specialness" comes from thinking you were some poor oppressed slob in a previous life and that now you are entitled to harvesting whatever material goods you can wrest from the world. And yet other times you let yourself be manipulated into thinking that emotional or physical ills that you feel are due to something "bad" you did in your past. None of them are true. There is no reincarnation at all, never, ever and there are no "special circumstances."

You would think people would be happy to be corrected on this matter but they are not. They like to cling to the herasy so they can feel "special," since being special to God is not enough to them. That's violation of the First Commandment by the way.

I suggest you spend some time reading obituaries as a detox exercise. As you read the obituaries repeat to yourself (make it your mantra) "That was it. That was the entirety of that person's life and now they will be judged by God."

For normal people reading obituaries is also a worthy exercise. It's not depressing, in general, but a celebration of a unique life, often lived in very adverse circumstances.