I have some very smart and logical friends. I was telling one such about my experience with the Icelandic gentleman who believes in the efficacy of chicken sacrifice. This friend explained to me that burning things is afterlife mail, so those who burn chickens in sacrifice are giving spirits spirit chickens. It is, however, a one way mail, meaning that if I start seeing random chickens either spirits can reverse entropy or I am dead.
I see random chickens all the time. I do not believe that spirits or anything else can reverse entropy.
I have watched a great deal of horror anime. I am well aware that it is possible for someone to be dead for many episodes (whole seasons, even!) without realizing that they are dead, during which time of revenancy they cause many inexplicable catastrophes to people and infrastructure. If indeed I am dead, then Tanzania may be my fault. I would hope that my friends would, you know, tell me if I was dead (and then salt and burn my bones) but I have this fear that they would just point and laugh at the stupid dead thing that thinks it's alive. A lot of people point and laugh at me in this country. I was assuming this was just because I am white, but I could be dead.
I asked another dear friend, with whom I have watched more anime than can be healthy, and she said since I haven't been moved to engage in haunting solo musical numbers recently I might actually be still alive, but just to check, she is going to start writing me notes and burning them. If afterlife mail works as well as advertised, if I don't start seeing notes addressed to me appearing, I am probably alive. Stay tuned.
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