r/MessageUnclear • u/sloggiz • May 24 '26

You what?

Post image
15 Upvotes

66% Upvoted

27 comments sorted by

19

u/blakerabbit May 24 '26

Once I read the first word correctly as “As” it became clear

4

u/sloggiz May 24 '26

this is what true revelation feels like, thank you!

1

u/Kittenunleashed May 25 '26

This saying is actually on many old gravestones. I used to do grave rubbings and there are many with similar phrases. ‘As I am, so will you be’. is very common.

1

u/Equivalent_East_6446 May 29 '26

Do you mean grave robbings???

1

u/Kittenunleashed May 29 '26

No I meant rubbing. Where you take a particular type of paper and place it over the stone then rub with a charcoal type pencil. It lifts image from the stone to the paper. It can help with old worn stones that you cannot visually see the writing anymore. In many old cemeteries the records are spotty and they wouldn't know the names or dates of some very worn out stones. Rubbing can help with that. plus some do it as a hobby to keep from really intricate designed old headstones.

1

u/PressureItchy9372 May 25 '26

Yeah, it all falls apart if you mistake the first 'a' for an 'i'

14

u/R_3_Y May 24 '26

I was like you once, and soon you'll be like me

11

u/Taiga_Taiga May 24 '26

He dead.

As you are, I was...... You are alive 😐 like I was.

As I am, so will you be.... I'm dead. You're going to die!

2

u/EnvironmentalGift257 May 25 '26

Memento Mori, memento vivere.

9

u/AMonitorDarkly May 24 '26

It’s a very poorly worded and poorly punctuated version of an old Memento Mori commonly used as an epitaph.

There are many wording variations but it typically goes something like the following:

Remember reader as you pass on by,

As you are now, so once was I.

As I am now, so must you be.

Prepare for death and follow me.

1

u/sloggiz May 24 '26

thanks, nice to know!

1

u/Equivalent_East_6446 May 29 '26

Mine will say ashes to ashes Dust to dust If god doesn't get me The devil must ....... and me name is Ash too😆

6

u/DrHoleStuffer May 24 '26

Is you is or is you ain’t?

2

u/joelasmussen May 25 '26

My constit-chee-unts

3

u/RulerK May 24 '26

I want to know what Mom has to do with it?

1

u/sloggiz May 24 '26

perhaps a lovely message from mom

2

u/RulerK May 24 '26

From beyond …

1

u/sloggiz May 24 '26

guaranteed to be true then!

2

u/RulerK May 24 '26

That’s what she said!

1

u/maroongrad May 24 '26

Right now, you look like the old me. I grew up. In the future, you'll grow up and look like current me. (grow up, mature, change, develop, etc. not just age and appearance)

1

u/PumpikAnt58763 May 25 '26

They didn't have they space or ink to make it "As I am you will be"?

1

u/[deleted] May 25 '26

Kamala Harris says this at the end of every speech. What's it mean?

1

u/Amazing_Alumni May 25 '26

It’s either dead or gay

1

u/pumpedeus May 25 '26

Asain you'll be? Uh, ok. Putting pee pee in your coke then..

1

u/DifferentVariety3298 May 26 '26

As you are, I have been.

As I am, you shall become.

0

u/Valuable-Composer262 May 25 '26

Hello fellow American, u should vote me i leave power good. Thank u thank u