LmBSuicide rates would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven.
Maybe it does and the queue is so long we just forget about our old life by the time our number comes up
The existence of a queue sparks the follow-up question: What happens if something is born while the queue is empty?
Donald J. Trump.
Mushrooms.
They came before the queue got started and will be here long after it finishes.
They came before the queue got started and will be here long after it finishes.
Pillars of Eternity happens.
I read a short story once that there’s only one person constantly reincarnated simultaneously, and everyone you (I) meet is actually me (you) and only realizes it after death before being born into the next person’s body,
That’s interesting. I’ve had that same thought before, it might be cool to see someone else’s take on it. Do you remember the name of the story or author?
The Egg, by Andy Weir.
It’s also on YouTube in various forms. Kurzgesagt, for example, has a version in their animation style.
Oh my god. That was Andy Weir?!
TaiI don’t actually believe this, but it’s the perspective I try to have in life. Always treat others how you want to be treated because maybe one day it will be you.
TonavaI’ve found myself having to use something like “try to treat people how they want to be treated” as a perspective. Being autistic I’ve learned the hard way what I want is usually very different from what most people around me want, which means I can’t really rely on myself on these matters. It’s easy to think through ourselves, but considering others through ourselves doesn’t always end up being the best course of action. Though I guess just being compassionate gets you pretty far either way
RiskableIn my story, Maizy’s Tails, I made it so that souls had to be aged for 1000 years before they could be reincarnated. Otherwise the lingering attachment (which makes souls weightless) won’t allow them to enter into a new body.
The 1000 years is just a nice, round figure the gods use as a safe baseline. Some souls might only need 200 years while others might need 950 or so. Best to just place them all into balloons and let them age in batches 👍
Would it count as suicide anymore?
Rerolling. As a Civilization player, I get it. I’d be aiming for that legendary start too.
BurgerBaronI mean I don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)In that case, people with retrograde amnesia are already dead and we should just consider them a new legal person…
If you lose all your memories due to amnesia, you will still be you, experiencing reality as you, just with your “hard drive” being wiped.
I still don’t see any difference between death and reincarnating without past memories.
Well some people who believe in reincarnation seem to also think that at least some memories do get preserved, perhaps subconsciously.
Then there is the whole dualist aspect: if reincarnation is real, something must carry over past death. Call it a soul, or an essence or personality or whatever. While I find dualism highly dubious, I can see its appeal.
That said, one could imagine, at least in principle, that through “some mechanism” your reincarnated body develops the same brain structure that you had when you died, perhaps with some differences needed to account for the different memories. If one entertains this fiction, I would argue there is significant similarity between the person who died and the person who they reincarnated as.
cylons can resurrect/reincarnate everytime they die.
What in the seven hells of asmodeus are you smoking over there to get those stats?
funkajunk 🇨🇦Brb respawning
Boomer Humor DoomergodI would only do it if I didn’t come back as a human.
“Beetle again?? Pass.”
Even if there’s no karma involved, and which species you get is completely random, chances are you will end up rolling beetle.
Do beetles wear pants and go to work and pay taxes and wage war?
Being a beetle sounds awesome.
Just for that, I’m going to buy a terrarium, sew a beetle a 3 piece suit and hitch a string to its back and into a gearbox. So long as the beetle is moving, its food mechanism will turn once per 1/10th mile, dispensing 20 pellets. 1/20 pellets will be thrown directly into an incinerator, 1/20 will go to another random beetle outside, 3 pellets will go to the terrarium, and 3/4 will go to the weevils in my cocaine dish. I will force them to suffer as I do.
I wonder what life as a river otter would be like. Also to add to your work/taxes.
Or a moth. Or a fish. Or an elephant.
No pants. No imaginary lines in the dirt. No government or politics or money or religion or culture wars or hours or minutes.
Just vibes.
They would increase if any afterlife was proven. Even terrible ones ppl will convince themselves are actually good.
FlaxProbably caused at least in part by the constant shitty behavior of people who are loudly convinced that they are going to heaven, who then turn around and tell everyone else that they are going to hell.
Choose Heaven for the climate, but choose Hell for the company.
Yeah, a lot of satanic folk, or just those that like the aesthetic, dont actually believe in a hell or satan. Its often a middle finger to the religious that want to control their lives.
My wife grew up in a Jewish household that celebrates Christmas. They never took any religion seriously. She giggles when she has to go to a catholic mass for a wedding or something. She didn’t grow up with it and its as silly to her as Satan worship or witchcraft is to other people.
What you consider normal is mostly a function of exposure.
“Whoa, they have grilling???”
“Yes, they grill your soul over a pit of pulsing, miasmic ichor. It slowly strips you of even the concept of sanity through sheer agony.”
“I can only imagine the BTUs in grilling heaven, wow!”
Queue companies finding a way to track your respawn and apply debt from your last life.
There’s a Jason Segel movie about this called The Discovery. It’s a decent watch.
ScubusDepends… If you come from a religious background and believe in an afterlife its mostly a sin to do suicide and can get you in trouble in the afterlife in most religions
thisbenzingringI like the idea of Death in the Discworld. You get what you believe in. That’s why some isolated tribes kill evangelist on site , hell only exists if you believe in it.
The monk that believes in reincarnation is always so excited to start again but wishes he would remember more, only remembering his other lives in the time he is dead.
The long desert that Brotha believes in is special when he decides to save Vorbis, and walks it together, even though he is like a messiah and Vorbis should be condemned to suffer his loneliness forever.
I fucking love The Small Gods book so much
What happens if someone believes that death is only temporary, and every time they die, they’ll come back to life in an even more powerful form 1 day later?
Congratulations, you found Son Goku!
Death is a specific entity so he has to make it happen and there’s lots of things that he nopes lol Like people that become ghosts, he is always like yeah it’s weird that nobody tells you what happens next bye! and the ghost has to figure it out for themselves
potoooooooo ✅️I’ve seen them blamed for literal hurricanes.
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