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No. 1034847

A thread for general discussion of reincarnation.

>Do you believe in reincarnation or the soul?

>Do you have memories or impressions of a past life?
>What would you want to be if you were reincarnated?

Share stories of reincarnation. Interesting information about the topic and cool websites. Discuss the differences and similarities of concepts and beliefs between other cultures. And please have fun!

No. 1034850

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Shanti Devi
When Stanti was only four years old in 1930, she began recounting her past life to her parents in amazing detail. She could remember the town she lived in, just 75 miles away, all members of her family, and details about her life such as where she had hid her savings and the painful birth of her child which lead to her death. When she reveiled the name of her past life's husband to her parents when she was 9, a friend of the family sent a letter to the man, he wrote back confirming he was real and that the details Shanti described had been accurate.

The man, named Nath, agreed to send a relative to the Devi home to meet Shanti.
>In an effort to test her knowledge, the relative was brought before Devi first and introduced as her husband. Devi was not fooled and said that no, this was her husband's cousin.

After meeting her husband and now ten year old son, she reportedly burst into tears. They spent several days together at the Devi home, Nath claim every answer she gave to his questions were entirely accurate. Shanti begged her parents to take her to visit her former town, promising she could lead them directly to her home and to the money she had stashed inside the house.
In 1935 Mahatma Gandhi had taken interest in the story and set up a commission to investigate. A dozen researchers joined Shanti and her parents on their visit to her former home.
>“Once getting out of the railway station… the girl was put in the front seat and our carriage went ahead of all others. Necessary precautions were taken that no pedestrians should be allowed to lead the way. The driver was instructed to follow the route indicated only by the girl, without caring as to where he went.”
>Sure enough, Devi had no problem directing the group to what she claimed was her former home. Along the way, she noted various streets that hadn’t been paved earlier and buildings that weren’t there during her previous life. The driver confirmed these observations were correct.

When asked about the stashed money she had mentioned, Shanti headed for the corner of an upstairs room, where the money was hidden under the floor boards. There was only an empty box, and Nath admitted that he had taken the money from the box after his wife's death. Shanti was also able to recognize her past life's parents from a crowd of over 50 people.
The commission reported that they had no rational explaination of what they had witnessed.

Shanti described her experience with the afterlife
>She claimed that at the time of her death, she felt dizzy and enveloped in a “profound darkness” before a flash of light revealed four men in yellow underwear before her.
>“All the four seemed to be in their teens and their appearance and dress were very bright,” she once said while under hypnosis. “They put me in a cup and carried me.”
>Devi said she saw the Hindu god Krishna showing each person a record of their good and bad activities on earth and telling them what would happen to them next.
>Then, Devi said she was taken to a golden staircase from which she could see a river as “clean and pure as milk.” She said she saw souls there and they appeared like flames in lamps.

>Years later, a 1958 newspaper interview followed up with her. At the time, Shanti Devi was 32 years old and had never married. She was living a quiet, spiritual life in Delhi.

>She also said she’d planned to form an organization “devoted to the idea of living our lives according to the dictates of the inner voice.”

Shanti passed away in 1987 at the age of 61.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/shanti-devi

No. 1034865

>>1034860
That was beautifully said anon

No. 1034868

>>1034865
Thank you! repost because the gore made me wanna delete.
i believe reincarnation is a law on earth because of how often our lives are revolved around repetition until we accomplish something. also evolution is kind of the same idea. we practice things until we are proficient in them and i think this extends out into the universe. we are born again on earth until we can heal the scars on our soul enough to leave earth.

No. 1034874

>>1034868
How do I find out what my scars are and how to heal them

No. 1034923

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I’m really curious what anons think of the idea of the reincarnation death trap! I’m going to link a Reddit post (please forgive me) just because it’s the most comprehensive and well-written piece I’ve found on the subject matter.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapingPrisonPlanet/comments/pyijav/ive_researched_the_afterlife_for_nearly_10_years/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

My personal beliefs are a blend of this idea and what anon >>1034868 was getting at.
I currently believe that a lot of Buddhists were correct in that life on earth is inherent suffering and enlightenment of some sort is what it takes to break out of this prison planet. I think this enlightenment comes in the form of knowing that breaking the cycle of reincarnation here is a choice.
I feel like I’m an old soul and absolutely ready to cease reincarnating after this lifetime is up. I either want to go back to source or come back to earth as a guardian angel who can help others towards enlightenment.

I know that what I’m saying sounds absolutely schizo, but I at least hope it’s interesting and provokes some thought.

No. 1034931

>>1034923
I'm sorry anon this is genuinely insane.

No. 1034933

>>1034923
I honestly want to reincarnate so bad just for another shot at this, i’m willing to follow the light even if i fully know its a trap kek i want to do things correctly next time

No. 1034939

>>1034931
So do the major 3 religions in the world but theyre so normalized no one cares how schizos jews christians and muslims sound

No. 1034940

I really, desperately want to be reincarnated as a cat. Hopefully a cat in a loving home. I just want to rest, and play. I want to be the most loveable kitty that ever existed. I want to lie in the sun for hours and get so excited for every meal I'm practically screaming kek. Being a cat seems like paradise to me.

No. 1034941

>>1034939
Yuuup, such a good point

No. 1034945

>>1034868
I also believe this. I'm trying to fix my problems asap because I really don't want to be reincarnated into something worse. I'm tired of this shit.

No. 1034961

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Picrel is the book that got me thinking about reincarnation, it's basically full of stories from young children like >>1034850 this one. You can also look up Dr. Tucker on the University of Virgia's website.

Anyway I don't actually know why we're here. I do subscribe to the belief that we're here to learn and grow, though for what purpose or why we keep coming back, I just can't say. If you believe in things like spirits, there is also a lot of anecdotal evidence of people not being reincarnated immediately after death, like they linger around. That also confuses me.

No. 1034969

>>1034961
>If you believe in things like spirits, there is also a lot of anecdotal evidence of people not being reincarnated immediately after death, like they linger around. That also confuses me.

Me too. There’s also the common case of people interacting with dead loved ones in their dreams (sometimes with the added benefit of getting relevant foresight and warnings about events in their waking lives.)

I have no caps of this (it’s in a different language anyway,) but I read a post on the Korean side of the internet of a woman whose deceased husband visited her in her dreams fairly regularly for 2~ years. In one dream, he brought her fried chicken (her favorite food) and a pretty ring and told her he couldn’t keep visiting her after that and that he “had to go soon.” He told her how much he loved her, and after she woke up from that dream, she stopped dreaming of him from then on.

No. 1034994

>>1034961
I’m a very skeptical atheist by nature, but if I could choose a belief, it Would be the one in this video. Only replying to you because I think you would find it interesting, and perhaps give you an idea of the answer to your questions.

No. 1035146

Cute threadpic!
I unfortunately don't believe in reincarnation anymore. The soul is in the brain. We're our brains. When the brain dies so do we. It feels sad but I rather die forever than spend another day in this gay earth.

What is your personal reincarnation theory though?

No. 1035436

>>1035146
I would actually find it really comforting to know there was just nothing after death. I believe in reincarnation but lowkey hope that’s the truth.

No. 1035442

>>1034969
This happened to a Heaven's Gate defector who lost his girlfriend (which he considered a soulmate) in the group suicide. He kept dreaming about her until she came to say farewell. It's detailed in the HBO documentary, if anyone wants the details.
I guess it could also be explained by our subconscious letting go of the grief.

No. 1035451

>>1035146
Nope, you're microbial symbiosis. Try again nonna

No. 1035477

what does OP thread pic have to do with reincarnation? you all want to be bugs in the next life?

No. 1035702

>>1035477
what, you don't??

No. 1035764

>>1035702
kek I’m good nona

No. 1036036

>>1034994
Oh thank you anon! I've actually seen this theory and this video before. But I'm also a skeptic like you. There really is a lot out there on reincarnation where people claim so much like this, that there is a higher being that is doing this all for a reason, that we come back for this or that purpose, or claim to see a detailed place people go that houses the spirit, and so on. I honestly think that's all things people make up. Maybe intentionally, maybe unintentionally. The human brain is very skilled at filling in the gaps of reality.

I don't doubt that people see different things when they die or are dying, and that they are all true in a way. But I don't think that these kinds of theories are the real truth, either. I think we can get a glimpse of truth by looking at the patterns between what religions, cultures, and people experience surrounding death, memory, and life. I think stories with very young children are a good way to study this (since they have the least memory and experience theoretically). I would be skeptical of adults claiming certain theories on why we are here (how can they know why we are here?), or what supernatural things appear as (how would they know this?). People are eager to make up things from their subjective human experience, which is the basis of all religion. Thanks for the video though anon, I've thought about it for a long time before as well.

No. 1036242

>>1035477
The art is from a pair of illustrations called Life of Reincarnation by Kazuki Okuda. Also there are ravens in the pic, not just bugs.

No. 1036311

>>1034847
I believe in reincarnation, and I don’t have much proof for it. The truth is, I’ve felt so… old… since being a kid. The kind of age with no memory. But a resounding feeling. I have a feeling I’ve existed before, in some way or another.
Reincarnation also allows be to have hope in the next life.
(Confession; I’ve always wanted to come back as a hype man for a hip-hop artist. I just know it’s my destiny. Lmao)

No. 1036350

I think that our body already somewhat reincarnates and becomes part of "everything/earth/circle of life" again (our remains nurtures and becomes part of living organisms, who contribute to the survival and life of other animals and plants whose death then contributes to the life of other organisms etc etc, so in the end our remains become part of different forms of life). Personally, I think this is really soothing.
If there's something like a soul, energy or conciousness beyond our body, it would make sense for it to be recycled in a similar way too. I for one would love to stay on earth until the end of it and experience life over and over again.

No. 1036362

>>1036350
This is a lovely take, anon. Unfortunately, the majority of people in the West end up opting for the dump and pump of corpse preservation cocktails or end up in multiple plastic baggies in fancy jars that don't end up nourishing anything. We would be nourishing all the little microorganisms that hang out in our bodies and help with the decomposition process, but we sort of nuke them with preservation.
I often wonder what causes people to behave very status quo, unable to think for themselves or critically think for the most part. Maybe that has something to do with these bodies being left in a stage of stagnancy and we need all parts of us to feed back into the system to come back as complete.

No. 1036403

>>1036362
They pump corpses full of preservatives so people can plan wakes and funerals with a bit more time. But I hate how the blood is drained, the whole process disgusts me

No. 1036425

I'm on the fence about reincarnation. I want to believe! I really wanna do some regression session or whatever, but I don't even know how I'd go about that.
I tried doing stuff like this video, but I either can't relax enough due to restless leg syndrome or I just sleep, no in between lol

No. 1036438

>>1036403
It's really nasty. I know there's a purpose behind it, but wish we had a better acceptance of death and how the body is just there to be temporary and not a pretty mirror of our once living selves

No. 1036532

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Serious question.

What do you think happens to those who commit suicide?

I have many thoughts about kms so I can start over or be at peace, but what if I get reincarnated to a new life form that is worse than my current life?

No. 1036535

>>1036532
My optimistic and possibly not very educated take is that I hope everyone can choose to do what they desire. If it means to stop the cycle of existence, by all means. Farewell. If it means to go through another in hopes of a better life, by all means. My wishes go with you, whatever you choose.

No. 1036551

The only two main questions I have about reincarnation is why we can't remember our past lives waaaaay back like to cavemen times and what would happen when the Earth is finally destroyed (would we go to some other planet to reincarnate even if it means starting over again as single-celled organisms like bacteria?)

No. 1036573

>>1036532
I would think it depends on why you an heroed. Like maybe if you went through something truly horrible you could have a more peaceful transition, but if you kys after committing a horrible crime or sth then it's not so peaceful.

No. 1036822

I can recall a few of my past lives if anybody wants to discuss how that can happen (its spontaneous recall when you are older, unlike as a child). Uninterested in debate/proving it to anons but I would love to share & reveal how one can obtain this as well as explaining how it works

No. 1036851

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No. 1036871

>>1036822
How many lives have you lived?

No. 1036873

I remember following bright light after I've fallen into lake and then waking up on a pool float after being (as i assumed) fished out by my sister. Some time ago Ive tried discussing this event with her when we were talking heart-to-heart but she had no recollection of it. The idea that quantum suicide theory might be real and ive died as a kid only to reincarnate/get another chance in a new universe really scares me.

No. 1036894

>>1036822
I'm interested in finding out the technicalities as well as your lives and experiences

No. 1036897

>>1036873
thanks for sharing, nonnie. I had a similar experience. I shit bricks when I watched this video because it was like I knew what was going to happen from the start, because it's all stuff I've experienced too. good luck nonnie

No. 1036903

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The problem with reincarnation in most religions is that it always has some fucked up belief about how certain people deserve their fates cause they were bad people in the previous lives
Hinduism with its caste system is probably the worst example, as it lead to systemic abuse of the Dalit people for centuries

I think Sikhism had probably the best interpretation, in that all life will have suffering and you are going to be endlessly reincarnated at random until you achieve enlightenment and your soul joins God

No. 1037342

>>1036871
everything has always existed & comes from the same soul source. at the top, we are all eachother & everything. an unfathomable unmeasurable number that continues on. the universe is sentient & to narrow it humans are an extension of the intelligence of earth

many religions have tried to calculate these numbers, the Jains have such a system.

essentially one incarnates with a specific life theme at the higher levels of energetic evolution.

no other person can ever truly validate the others life theme totally because it is something the individual must explore themselves & discover. many yogis state this.

to recall all experiences of life is too overwhelming for the human mind. too distracting. if we are lucky we are born remembering aspects of our recent life.

but humanity is a traumatic experience so is death. even if you meditate deeply and uncover these associated existences - all lifetimes happen simultaneously & are equal in the perception we only understand this dimension in a linear time construct.

you really can only end up with fragmentation of memories. or feelings or better yet -> you will know your past lives easiest by identifying your biggest fears, the circumstances of the first 8 years if this life, the karma of yourparents , your romantic relationships, and your career desires.

there is also the universal masculine, feminine polarity trauma we inherit by biology

as well as the past life karma of the entire human & earth ecosystem collective ( fear of annihilation)

No. 1037346

>>1036873
it is indeed real. one dies in multiple realities in multiple timelines.

read a few thousand near death experiences and they describe the wheel of soul-time popping up and spurting them out in a reality nearly identical…nearly. but they retain the vivid death experience

No. 1037349

>>1036903

its hard to believe some people choose to incarnate in bad situations but they do for experience as life is eternal.

also some have not evolved to understand they have the choice to rise out of karma after death so they reincarnate by default & experience alternate versions of the same prior life

also everyone has freedom of choice. they can create new karma in their new life or free themselves of it

and whos to say the one who murdered the girl, that she did not strangle him as her son in a previous life

who knows, life is wild

No. 1037429

>>1036535
I like you, nonnie. You have good vibes.

No. 1038348

>>1036851
You are so annoying

No. 1039162

Plato is a stupid gay

>Plato in Timaeus claims that men who were cowards and were lazy throughout their life shall be reborn as women


>Plato discusses this matter with more detail in Timaeus, where he states that men have a superior soul than women (42a): "Humans have a twofold nature, the superior kind should be such as would from then on be called "man". He added, once again, that men who led bad lives shall be reborn as women (42b): "And if a person lived a good life throughout the due course of his time, he would at the end return to his dwelling place in his companion star, to live a life of happiness that agreed with his character. But if he failed in this, he would be born a second time, now as a woman."


Its pretty amazing that they never caught on that the split in population of the sexes is nearly 50/50. by their own standards, exactly half of men born before them in their own exalted society were lazy cowards. And if good bois got to become stars and shitty men became women, then their own ideal citizenry would eventually become a pure sausagefest.

Reminder to not take any words seriously from male philosophers dead or alive especially pertaining to reincarnation; they are only able to navel-gaze and process existence from their own little cage, absolutely entranced by their eternal dominance hierarchy, they do not understand creation, nature, life and death; only destruction and futile attempts at domination within the material-world

No. 1039199

>>1034847
>Do you believe in reincarnation or the soul?
I don't know. Part of me wishes reincarnation were real, it would be nice to have a second chance at life before going to the afterlife. And part of me wishes reincarnation were not real, I wouldn't want to be reborn in a slum in Nigeria.
>Do you have memories or impressions of a past life?
Nope
>What would you want to be if you were reincarnated?
I'd want to be from a first world country like Japan or Germany.

No. 1047717

>>1034994
Bump for anon

No. 1047729

>>1047717
I love you so much, thank you!

No. 1202375

Reincarnation after suicide is really tricky. Some people say you have to go through fish mammal ape man cycle again to get to being human again as punishment. While others say you can rest and choose to go back and have a better life. Wish there was a definitive answer

No. 1202608

>>1039162
Spot on, anon.

God fucking damn it, men are so fucking vile and full of themselves. I genuinely don't get how fucking stupid you have to be to spit shit like this and have so little empathy and self-awareness while being aware you are going to reincarnate. It's counter-productive but they are narrow minded, loud, and full of themselves; men are not very logical creatures, no matter how much they like to lie to themselves.

I don't think we as women as for long as we are alive can understand how fucking stupid the male train of thought is, and I mean it wholeheartedly as an esotericfag and historyfag that has been reading the spiteful shit they blast in their post-nut moments and left for posterity across the centuries. We are simply the smarter sex, even the dumb ones among us… For us it's like trying to understand how a dog thinks and views the world from his little dog mind.

I agree on one thing though, being reincarnated as a woman is pure pain and sometimes feels like some sort of trial where you are in the verge of losing your mind, we are trapped in the plane where a bunch of violent glorified apes rule just because they are favored by matter (which in prison planet is simply an evil fucking trap). If your only advantage over women is being physically strong, in the physical plane where flesh is only temporary and meant to make you suffer, (and in top of that you happen to be ruled your whole life by the few inches of flesh between your legs) you know you simply happen not to be in the right side of things. I do think men deep down know that and all these cunts who try so hard to be philosophers and get in touch with the intangible and the spiritual only to fall short and fail fucking miserably, and they take it out on women as a whole. Sad little creatures.

No. 1202623

>>1202608
>have so little empathy
There was literally a male here in another thread who posted a animal torture live feeding video (and if you look at the comments of those videos its mostly men enjoying watching animals be tortured including a middle aged man in the comments who says that watching those videos gives him joy after work…wtf)

Even men know that they are psychopaths, its only women who keep on defending and protecting men and going ''not all men'' like their life depends on it.

No. 1202634

>>1036551
>what would happen when the Earth is finally destroyed (would we go to some other planet to reincarnate even if it means starting over again as single-celled organisms like bacteria?)

I wonder this too. like, if the earth become completely uninhabitable, where nothing could live, where would we reincarnate? I think other planets. There is a famous reincarnation story about a young boy who claims he is from another galaxy, a russian boy, but I don't remember his name.

No. 1202635

>>1202608
>If your only advantage over women is being physically strong, in the physical plane where flesh is only temporary and meant to make you suffer, (and in top of that you happen to be ruled your whole life by the few inches of flesh between your legs) you know you simply happen not to be in the right side of things.

and they spend their entire lives punishing women for thisfact.

No. 1202637

>>1202634
We probably already have past lives in different planets, i would think. So reincarnating in a different place shouldnt be a problem

No. 1202705

Reincarnation being real is literally my worst nightmare.
The chance you get reincarnated as a child of a fucking pedo or in extreme poverty, in a idk concentration camp or whatever, there is nothing more terrifying.
I've been dealing with suicidal thoughts since childhood and I cannot imagine that even that would not be a way out.

No. 1202715

>>1034940
I think about this all the time

No. 1202733

>>1202608
Notice how most male philosophers usually come to the conclusion that life is meaningless/empty/suffering? The un self aware ones try to project this view on women too. The self aware ones just fall short of saying "men aren't meant to be alive, and are only able to function on an animal level, only caring about things like reproduction, control, and labor."
They don't have a connection to the universe/source/god/etc and want to deny it even exists to save face.

No. 1202735

>>1202634
Wouldn't we reincarnate as the animals left behind until we eventually evolve into intelligent life?

No. 1202750

The concept of reincarnation is comforting to me. In a way it's like living forever without knowing it. It's nice to think that those who die get another chance and they're just somewhere else. Maybe a dear person or being who died is still there, still living in the same world as you, maybe just a few years younger and somewhere a little farther away.
It's also comforting because you would be getting a second chance. Imagine all the people who are sick, who died in horrible ways, who are forced to live a shitty life in an abusive situation, they'd all be getting another chance where they will be happy.

>>1202634
Maybe some of us are already from other planets like that boy claims. When I was younger I used to think that pictures of Jupiter felt like home, but that was just me being autistic kek. It would be cool though.

No. 1202770

I don't want to bait or anything but wouldn't reincarnation give some credibility to transgenderism. Or do you guys think women will always be reincarnated female and same for men? If so, what is the purpose between the split of male and female. If not, is nurture stronger than nature?

No. 1202817

>>1202770
samefag. I view being female as a sort of graduation. When your soul matures enough from the male stage you graduate to female. It's harder but it's the next stage before you ascend again.

No. 1202884

>>1202705
I think this too. The staggering majority of sentient lifeforms on earth are animals and a lot of them farm animals, many of those in intensive factory farms. something like 70b animals are slaughtered each year for food. not to get on a vegan soapbox (not even vegan), but imagine coming back as a battery hen living life in a cage as big as an a4 sheet of paper in a windowless building. nightmarish.

No. 1202896

>>1202770
Tbh I never thought about it. To me, a soul is genderless, it doesn't have a mind, it's an entity. The vessel is the thing that has the gender and the soul has nothing to do with "gender identity" or any of that shit. If your body is male or female, that's the sex and gender that you are.

No. 1202949

I don't have any religious basis for my beliefs, but I believe every soul is recycled into new energy when it is gone. I don't want to believe in living in perpetual heaven or hell. When we die our energy is transfered into something else, weather it's another life, or joins a mass jumble of other energies. I also think about how life could have happened a lot, since I don't believe it was created by a divine creator, it just happened to form one day by chemicals reacting in a certain way together? Surely that means everything has the potential to create life again?

No. 1202989

>>1202770
No, because if you are born in a woman's body you are a woman and if you're born in a man's body you are a man. Like the other anon said, your "soul" is mostly genderless. What you like, your aspirations, your thoughts and your personality may be influenced by socialization and bodily processes, but to it's core our soul is sexless. "Man" and "woman" are just words to define what you physically are and your genes - things that you cannot truly change in a lifetime.

No. 1202991

>>1202896
ayrt. I think that makes way more sense than what I suggested. What do you think dictates what life you are reincarnated into then?

No. 1203365

>>1202750
Same. I like the idea of reincarnation because it comforts me knowing i might be born and have a happier life. I love life, i love the concept of friends, hobbies, growing old and reminiscing, going to school and college. It’s just that my life as it is was really unfortunate. Sure i might reincarnate in a worse situation but there will always be a next time. Thats comforting.

No. 1203398

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>>1202991
I think it's random. Maybe your death happens at the exact same time a new life is incepted and then bam you're a puppy dog.

No. 1215965

>>1202375
I think about suicide victims a lot…I think to myself, are they at peace or are they facing the consequences of ending their life short?

>>1202705
The thought of this puts me on a verge of a breakdown.

No. 1215998

>>1034940
>>1202715
Same nonas. When I was little I even used to have dreams that I was a cat! It was probably just wishful thinking, and this sounds so stupid writing it out, but sometimes I still secretly daydream and think “Ohh, what if I actually WAS a cat at some point? Can I become one again after being a human?” There were times in my life when I haven’t been a great friend or girlfriend, what if it’s decided that I wasn’t a good enough human? Could I get turned into a lesser animal and I can become a cat?? Lol

No. 1216091

>>1202705

I think it's because we're depressed and non mentally ill people usually need some kind of belief, even the ones that claim to be atheists/skeptical. I've overcome my suicidal tendencies but even then, something makes it impossible to keep any sort of faith, even a pick and choose type one, even when you come to love your life there is no coming back once you've stared so deep into the void. I don't/can't understand the desire to live another life or really go anywhere after death, seems like such a hassle and really just this one is good enough. Anything more than a reasonable fear of death which is required in order to be functional seems superfluous. If reincarnation or the afterlife turns out to be real I'll just cope I guess but I'd still be a little pissed off, hopefully I will be turned into a cool bug kek



I think people are bodies first. Our current thinking exists for the wellness of this body, and when you die, physical matter is all that is left, and is disassembled and reassimilated elsewhere. Mind needs matter to exist, it's a product of physical circumstances. Death is the undoing of the circumstances that your mind existed in and for, and therefore it ceases to exist when no longer required or able to. It's not good or bad, merely an occurence of nature.

Besides the belief in flesh as the inferior substance, as a prison or as an outer layer is constantly used against us as a tool of manipulation and in this context, believing in anything above or beyond our current existence leaves you wide open for predation and isn't worth it if you don't have a crippling need that only faith can fulfill that would be a more dangerous weak point if left unattended. For example there are a lot of atheists who are in it for the edge but can't actually handle it, who would objectively benefit from being spiritual or even religious but instead they insist and become annoying nihilists that cope by being as much of a nuisance as they can be and terminal consumerism.

Also I think it would be really funny if it turned out that we actually dream of all of our past lives as a fetus and are influenced by this dream our entire lives once born.



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