Or, you’ve got a never-ending war between the Ennis and the Nol-Ennis.
But at least you have Kai Opaka to help sort it all out.
Me im first please
No way, I’m going first
They made that movie already
bleh, romantic scifi? Bram Stoker’s Dracula was better
If I had to go through my childhood and resulting alienated adulthood again, I’d try to delay death as long as possible to NOT go through it.
I guess it depends. If you’re eager to get the fuck outta this mortal coil, would having to go through childhood again really be something you’d be eager to do?
It depends.
If governments don’t restrict this information and you get born in a bad family, then you use knowledge of reincarnation and can just kys and keep doing it till you get a good family and childhood…
Then kys by 18 if you dont got rich parents so you can skip the “wage slavery” phase…
Oh I bet governments will start restricting this information…
Like how they bury history books…
Childhood kinda feels nostalgic ngl…
I mean it felt very fun and intense from memory…
I just didn’y know how to appreciate it back then…
I mean me right now could consciousness transfer to 8 year old me and redo all that and I could make it perfect…
If birth rates decline, you’re gonna be stuck in purgatory for a long time
I mean 1000 years would just be a blink of eye since you wouldn’t be conscious to be aware of it…
Alternatively, maybe I get born into an advanced post-scarcity alien civilization?
See that’s exactly where my mind went. Who says you would come back human… or even on Earth with a vast universe with infinite planets?
Who cares, you won’t remember anything.
But that’s already the case if you die. What would reincarnation change for the better?
I highly doubt it. Believers say that when a person dies, their memories are pretty much obliterated. So even if someone is going to be reborn, who they were no longer exists.
In some of the beliefs, your soul maintains the memory, but it’s blocked off by your body. Essentially, when you die, you’ll get your memory back, but you’ll forget it again when you’re doing another cycle.
So the main goal is to get enlightened so that you escape this cycle and graduate to a higher level of existence.
Werent there some book or story where everything on earth is just single being reincarnating endesly in to different points in time.
The Kurtzgesagt team made a video based on this. I think it’s called the egg?
Thank you. It was The Egg by Andy Weir
There would be reincarnation preachers, coaches, and scammers, promising you an ideal reincarnated life.
Well those already exist.
Ya but this time the koolaid would be on the poster
I legitimately don’t follow the analogy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Basically any reference to drinking koolaid is referencing a suicide cult.
Because reincarnation was proven they would advertize the suicide part instead of brainwashing them
Gotcha. I guess I agree those already exist (see your link). But I agree that’d be way more popular maybe. Except doesn’t suicide guarantee a shittier re-roll?
The whole thing is a hypothetical so who knows?
And it would work.
there’s a sucker born every dayYou mean there’s a sucker reborn every day!
Birth me once, shame on you; birth me twice, shame on me
They’d also probably make it so that debt carries over into your next life.
Yeah and get reincarnated as a stink bug, roll shit all day. And since you don’t have sentience you won’t be able to kill yourself again.
The short story collection/sorta novel Haunted by Pahlanuik ends with the discovery that the planet Venus (I think? Might have been Jupiter) is essentially an eternal awesome orgy heaven, which everyone will eventually end up reincarnating on when they die. So everyone on earth essentially decides to kill themselves. Stores have to start locking up suicide kits because people will just take them in the store and die before paying.
That entire thing is fucked up. I read it somewhere around sophomore year of high school and existentially traumatized me. There are stories in there that somehow 4chan shock image level in just written words.
Pahlanuik has a certain way of planting images in your brain that stay there for decades. Such a weird, brilliant, fascinating and slightly off-putting author. He really captures the ennui, alienation, despair, and absurdity of late-stage capitalism.
stay there for decades
Yeah. I read that book 20 years ago, and I can still vividly remember someone microwaving some meat and discovering that it was their own ass cheek, or a cis woman being accused of being trans and being sexually assaulted, someone falling into a spring at Yosemite, and of course, “Guts.”
He has a schtick with memorable twists, similar to Fight Club. I think Choke was the only novel of his I remember not really having a giant record scratch moment - Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, etc have huge twists. Like discovering the orgy heaven at the end of Haunted which really just serves to punch you in the gut - absolutely all of the fucked up things that the characters were doing to try to be famous was absolutely pointless, because everyone on Earth is killing themselves anyways.
The only fiction authors I can think of that have given me the same level of intense shock and revulsion would be Ágota Kristóf with the Notebook trilogy (which is spectacular and everyone should read) and Samuel Delany’s Hogg (which no one should read under any circumstances.)
Maybe animals know that, and that’s why livestock are so docile about their situation.
There is a movie about a scientist that proves the afterlife exists. A bunch of people kill themselves. And then it’s discovered that the afterlife they thought they found was not infact an afterlife but more like some time spatial recording of an alternative reality or something.
Honestly it’s still a little vague at the end how the so called evidence is really supportive of life after death.
If I could be a bumblebee for 12 seconds I’d do it
You can still wiggle your butt and dance, sister!
Oh wait. That’s honey bees. Do bumblebees do anything fun?
They bumble! Bumbling seems fun.
Nah, I tried it and never got any matches
If it were proven, and you could identify your previous identity, would you be able to claim your wealth and possessions from previous life?
that would go for debts too, or alleged debts.
Past life crimes bureau.
Sounds like the premise for a cool novel
Cory Doctorow has a story set in a society where cloning complete with mind restoration exists and is pretty quick and cheap. People make regular backups of themselves and then engage in dangerous activities like mountain skiing and whatnot. I forget which story it is: might be ‘Rapture of the Nerds’.
did they cure pain???
Don’t remember that, alas: Doctorow’s shorter stories and even some novels are pretty weird, and I was often too baffled by some aspects and details to remember the particulars. Need to give them a reread one of these days, and in text rather than in audio.
Wasn’t that Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom?
Can confirm, it is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Don’t forget deadheading! - everybody being able to basically switch off their brains to a kind of suspend state every time they get bored.
Yeah, could be that, judging by the summary on Wikipedia. I was so weirded out by the Disney World aspect of it, that I frankly forgot to follow the plot.
That’s just to lure us into the old “Be careful what you wish for” trap.
You think you have it bad, and you pop up in a hut in India five times in a row
