Explain this to me
There are more people alive today than have ever previously existed. How come every Tom Dick and Harry says that they were either a Roman Centurion or Marie Antoinette in a previous life?

The Math just simply doesn't work out.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 22:40, 10 replies)

Well, there were many people called 'Marie Antoinette' throughout history
A surprising number of which were also Roman Centurions...
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 23:55, closed)

Explain this to me:
How come those previous lives have taken this long to regenerate?!

In other news I was a cat.
(TheHBoxster is probably playing Beatles Rock Band on, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 0:00, closed)

Well,
to start with, the experts (Scientific American anyway) dont seem to think there are more people alive today than have ever previously existed.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-living-outnumber-dead&ref=rss
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 8:43, closed)

more concerning is where the s from the end of Maths has gone!
!!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 9:17, closed)

@vipros
The s is somewhere in the atlantic ocean.
(Miggyman, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 9:49, closed)

The importance of the person you were in a previous life is inversely proportional to your importance and interest in this one.
All my past lives were slaves and peasants.
(davywavy, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 10:07, closed)

@Vipros
The missing S is with a hypnotherapist at the moment, explaining how it was a Roman Centurion in a previous life
(mon bison powered by magnets, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 10:55, closed)

.
I'm so sorry to be english
but it's "maths"
(Freddles, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 11:19, closed)

I dunno
He may be mentioning a forum member called the math who has had one too many pies and pretends to go to the gym
(mon bison powered by magnets, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 11:55, closed)

It's because
everyone is too ashamed to say in their former life they were a multiple rapist or a Nazi concentration camp guard.

Exception being Max Mosely of course.
(zebby wasting irony here on, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 12:53, closed)