Thai Group Says Steve Jobs Reincarnated...


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KHLONG LUANG, Thailand ? When Apple Inc AAPL +0.21%. founder Steve Jobs died after a long fight with cancer last year, software engineer Tony Tseung sent an email to a Buddhist group in Thailand to find out what happened to his old boss now that he?s no longer of this world.

This month, Mr. Tseung received his answer. Mr. Jobs has been reincarnated as a celestial warrior-philosopher, the Dhammakaya group said in a special television broadcast, and he?s living in a mystical glass palace hovering above his old office at Apple?s Cupertino, California headquarters.

Mr. Jobs?s death unleashed a wave of grief across the world when he died last October. From Shanghai to Sydney to New York, admirers of his iconic devices laid flowers and lit candles to mourn his passing. Some commentators described the outpouring as an homage to a kind of secular prophet whose innovations changed the ways millions of people live their lives, strengthening the appeal of a brand which already was approaching cult-like status.

Some of Mr. Jobs?s admirers in Malaysia later gathered on a tropical island and in a religious ceremony each took a bite from an apple before flinging the fruit into the sea in a bid to speed up his reincarnation.

Now, Phra Chaibul Dhammajayo, abbot at the Dhammakaya Temple here just north of Bangkok, claims Mr. Jobs has already been reborn.

?After Steve Jobs passed away, he was reincarnated as a divine being with a special knowledge and appreciation for science and the arts,? the Dhammakaya leader said in the first of a series of sermons beamed to hundreds of thousands of the group?s followers around the world.

Phra Chaibul?s claims are impossible to corroborate, and his sermons have unleashed significant criticism, including from some skeptics who suspect he is just trying to get attention to help with fundraising. Among other things, he has said the reincarnated Mr. Jobs spends much of his time lounging in a glass palace resembling an Apple store. Phra Chaibul also has said the being formerly known as Steve Jobs is attended by 20 servants, who seem to resemble the Apple store ?Geniuses? who help customers set up their iPhones and other devices here on earth.

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"took a bite from an apple before flinging the fruit into the sea in a bid to speed up his reincarnation" - So they want to reincarnate a former fruit :p ? Makes so much sense!

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Gee - didn't think it'd be a Conspiracy since people think that Apple is a cult. :) lol j/k

I would bet that people would have fun trying to talk to him now that they know that he is "there" now. (Hovering above his old office) I don't believe it myself, but whatever makes the world go around for people I guess. :)

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Seems legit.

Also, thread moved to It's a Conspiracy!

Dunno why this is a conspiracy, just sounds like a religious viewpoint. If it was a group that had said he was in heaven and at the right hand of god would it have ended up in this section? :\

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Dunno why this is a conspiracy, just sounds like a religious viewpoint. If it was a group that had said he was in heaven and at the right hand of god would it have ended up in this section? :\

Reincarnation is considered 'paranormal' by Western standards --- even tho it is true. ;)

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Guys, I don't think it was the Cult of Apple that said all this, I think it was Buddhists. Remember, Steve himself was a Buddhist so it would be only natural for the leaders of his religion to tell the world such an important member of their religion has been reincarnated...

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Reincarnation is considered 'paranormal' by Western standards --- even tho it is true. ;)

But of course it is. :rolleyes:

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