I am an atheist (not the annoying kind) and I feel that this short story has an interesting philosophical perspective if you can get past the literal interpreta

I am an atheist (not the annoying kind) and I feel that this short story has an interesting philosophical perspective if you can get past the literal interpretation of "god" and "reincarnation". As to what is On topic. From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." 56 (as of now) people thinks this gratifies intellectual curiosity.