Should I tag it, Hilarious in Hindsight?

Lol, this aged so well.

I’m aware, this was made before that episode aired.

It also bears pointing out that the Pillars are still alive in Twilight’s time since that was literally the Season 7 finale.

Hi uh from the future here…so uh…hehe about this… it’s complicated.

@Professor Genki  
I am aware, this is was made sometime before it was revealed that the Pillarsof Equestria were simply stuck in limbo.

The belief of reincarnation, to put it simply, one must die first to be born anew, with that simple aspect, this is false.
 
This is more of a spiritual connection if anything.

@genervt  
That they were still alive wasn’t known at the time this was made.

@Background Pony #D89F  

 
This. If they were reincarnations the Pillars would be dead.

@darknessRising24  
please contact me when you remember where

@mana the immortal  
Well, if you didn’t know every person in the world was also yourself having lived in this time more than once, you could still end up fighting yourself…

@Phantom Rider  
So every war is just them getting bored in several thousand lives at once?

@Phantom Rider  
I read a story like that once, but I can’t remember where.

@headlessrainbow  
In that case, what if, in the entire world, there has only ever been one person, living in every place and time?

@hollowblade  
I had a friend that believed that reincarnations didn’t happen in temporal order, so it was possible for your next reincarnation to exist before you or simultaneously to you.  
I’m not saying it makes sense, but it is a possible thing to believe, apparently.

@hollowblade  
You’re late to the party dude, already went through it.

The Pillars never died, making that literally impossible. Headcannon denied.

@darknessRising24  
sooooo very clue yet soooooo far away! good try tho!

@northern haste  
They aren’t, my headcanon turned out to be close but still wrong.

@Background Pony #785D  
@Background Pony #39D3  
How in the hell can they be reincarnation see if the Legends are not dead

you were right

@Background Pony #785D  
No it isn’t, you dipstick.

IT’S CANON!!!!!!!!!!!

@Background Pony #09DE  
Given what they said in the comics, I theorize that Star Swirl was studying the Elements of Harmony, though he calls them by different names; hope, beauty, bravery, strength, healing, and sorcery. Given Celestia said he never learned the true value of friendship, I suspect he was trying to learn how to use the Elements, but never quite sorted it out, and that he was reasoning that they embodied power, rather than more subtle traits. Just my theory though.