Past lives are weird...

[Aloysius]

Have you learned the importance of being earnest? lol

Before this, I had many heated discussions with my fiancee about my homosexuality which will remain physically-closeted indefinitely. She had fears that I would leave her for a man.

In fact, I found the man very homely yet he was admirable in his demeanor and choice of dress -- it was something I would like to wear given the money and confidence.

One thing I'd say you do have in common with Oscar Wilde is that I'm sure you're serious at times but I still find you hilarious lol.

As for the whole "reading their work and it's like reading my own mind" I had this with Carl Jung and for a time I thought maybe I was him in a past life, there was stuff I had written on my own and at times there was word for word congruency with his work...but then this happened with the Ra material, Marshall Mcluhan, Aleister Crowley and Percy Shelley lol.
It's not that hard to travel on a personal train of thought and arrive at the same station/conclusion as someone else, happens all the time even with people that are processing vastly different experiences, doesn't mean we were/are that person.

To me, I do not see why it is any more likely for someone to have a past life as an individual with no historical record than to have a past life as someone who was historically recorded.

To be honest a lot of the wishing that we were someone famous in a previous lifetime often stems from some insecurity and a desire to validate ourselves in the thought that we were at one time "important". This forms a bias of interpretation through which we "filter"/entertain possible previous lives. I'm not saying it's a useless thing to ponder, but c'mon.

Steppenwolf: My previous identity on this site was "Ludi" from Hesse's "Magister Ludi/ The Glass Bead Game", good to see another fan around.