It seems like in today’s world, more so in the last sixty years, we find people who think that they are someone else. People feel that they were born in the wrong body. Maybe this comes from the idea of reincarnation which began in India in the first millennium BCE. Even Plato wrote about it. According to Wikipedia “The word reincarnation derives from a Latin term that literally means ‘entering the flesh again’. Reincarnation refers to the belief that an aspect of every human being (or all living beings in some cultures) continues to exist after death. This aspect may be the soul, mind, consciousness, or something transcendent which is reborn in an interconnected cycle of existence; the transmigration belief varies by culture, and is envisioned to be in the form of a newly born human being, animal, plant, spirit, or as a being in some other non-human realm of existence.” So could this cycle of dying and being reborn into many different forms be true? Can we go from a dog to a person to a plant and then back to a bear and then to a lion? What would be the purpose of life? Some people think that you go from being one person to another person and so on till you have perfected life. I’m not sure that I have found anyone who has perfected life. The Bible tells us this, “Everyone must die once. Then they are judged.” We all are born, and we all struggle to be a reasonably good person, let alone perfect. So the question is why do some people feel that they were born in the wrong body? Has someone told them this or could it be that some people have a stronger gene in one area versus another? We especially want to look at Furries. Why do some people think that they are a dog or a cat or some other kind of animal? Certainly when they were born they did not act like this, so why in later life do they feel this way? Could it have all come about from watching cartoons or reading the comics or dressing up for Halloween? Maybe it is all for fun or for social acceptance. Maybe so, but when schools have to have cat boxes for them to go to the bathroom, I think that it is a real thing in their minds. Maybe you know someone like this, even though you may not agree with them or maybe you think that they are strange, I hope that you do not bully them. You don’t have to believe what they believe, but at least we can be friendly. There is another group called the Mermaids or MerPeople. They too, like so many of the Furries, feel that they have been reincarnated. They believe that they are real mermaids, in fact, they identify as mermaids. They would rather spend life in the water than to live life with people. Like the Furries, many find it as an escape providing a refuge from life. Why people are like this, no one can really know, but we can treat them as human beings and even help them along the way, and maybe they will find themselves wanting to be real people, instead of a mermaid or an animal.
