I remember the first time when I was a kid and went to a dentist. I got my baby teeth pulled without anesthesia. It hurts, ALOT. At the time I remembered thinking: But if I die, I have to do that again? Noooooo

Same thing with all the bullying in school, all the embarassing things that happen, all the homework/classwork, all the tests, everything.

IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN!

Think you got your worldview and political ideology correct? Well, you could become a bad person the next life.

(but hey, this is just a theory, a game theory an existential crisis theory)

(Sorry if this sounds so bizzare, I’m not high or anything, I just have anxiety and I have to get weird thoughts out of my head by posting it 🫠)

  • artifex@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Isn’t that more like if you’re stuck in a time loop?

    My understanding is that if you’re reincarnated you’re still in the current timeline (ie time has continued to pass), you’re just now in a different body.

    And if it’s not a dharmic path-style of reincarnation and you’re just reincarnated into whatever living creature needs a soul, you’d probably come back as some kind of bacterium for the next 200 trillion times before – if you’re reeeeallly lucky – then reincarnating as a tardigrade.