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If reincarnation is real, I guess the afterlife faces a crisis due to the impending demographic crash here. The lines of souls awaiting reincarnation are about

by Qem 4y ago

If reincarnation is real, I guess the afterlife faces a crisis due to the impending demographic crash here. The lines of souls awaiting reincarnation are about to get real long, as lots of people die of old age without people having children to ensure a fast return.

ndsipa_pomu 4y ago
I reckon they'll just go stuffing multiple souls into each baby. Has anyone tried counting the number of souls per body?
- jalk 4y ago
  If you watch certain tiktok channels too much, you open up space for more souls to enter. Seems to works best for younger girls though.
  - ndsipa_pomu 4y ago
    Cool. I'm gonna seek out some extra souls and then do a roaring trade with some demons. "Why yes, I do currently own this soul, so it's MY soul, but not necessarily the one I was born with"
- asjfka 4y ago
  That's how John Malkovich famously became a puppeteer
xvilka 4y ago
Then it will cause a crisis described in Nights' Dawn[1] trilogy by Peter Hamilton. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/43318-night-s-dawn https://www.goodreads.com/series/43318-night-s-dawn
notnaut 4y ago
We’re in a period of karmic-inflation, where any given soul will get you about 1/5th what it’d get you in the good old days. Nowadays you’d be lucky to die into a fish or bird - most of us are destined bugs, or industrial farm animals.
- misja111 4y ago
  But the insect population is rapidly decreasing, so are many fish and birds. No if you ask me, most of us will reincarnate into bacteria.
  - Qem 4y ago
    Best bet are species that thrive despite or even thanks to humans. Like pets, pigeons or cockroaches.
    - aitchnyu 4y ago
      As a dwarf shrimp breeder, we must be doing the bulk of the work. We buy vividly colored dwarf shrimp, go crazy when they carry 40 eggs and gift them when when there are more than way more than the recommended 10 per liter. We also strive to maintain a ton of other tiny crustaceans, snails and worms.
bulkprotocol 4y ago
I don't believe in reincarnation but had a phase of religious study. It's generally not a 1-to-1 mapping of you die and come back as a human. Depending on the religious school of thought "you" can spend some finite time in some afterlife (good or bad) then come back as some organism, not necessarily human. Also accounting for continued biological evolution may not be homo sapien if your "soul" comes back 1000 years later. Can't say I believe in reincarnation at all.
- byyyy 4y ago
  There is actually a hierarchy of reincarnation with enlightenment being at the top. You can think of it like a mouse is lower form of life and if he works on his karma he can reincarnate as a racoon and then then if the racoon works on himself he can reincarnate as a monkey all the way up until enlightenment. The animal right before reincarnation as an enlightened being is of course man. But do you know what being is right before man? Woman. True story. Not even joking here. If a woman works on her karma, she supposedly can reincarnate as a man.
spyder 4y ago
Or Earth is not the only place to be reincarnated. *cue The X-Files music*
jjk166 4y ago
Who says you have to get reincarnated in the future? Maybe next up you'll be a 17th century peasant. Hell everyone that has ever and will ever live could all just be the same person. [0] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
- streakfix 4y ago
  Give me the number of your dealer
- streakfix 4y ago
  > Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you. funkytown playing in the background
- ransackdev 4y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
bentcorner 4y ago
I don't believe in reincarnation but sometimes I like to think that my "outie" is playing a video game (https://youtu.be/szzVlQ653as?t=25 https://youtu.be/szzVlQ653as?t=25)
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jollyllama 4y ago
You're assuming all the ones on the way out have souls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylics

by Qem 4y ago

ndsipa_pomu 4y ago

I reckon they'll just go stuffing multiple souls into each baby. Has anyone tried counting the number of souls per body?

jalk 4y ago
If you watch certain tiktok channels too much, you open up space for more souls to enter. Seems to works best for younger girls though.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y ago
  Cool. I'm gonna seek out some extra souls and then do a roaring trade with some demons. "Why yes, I do currently own this soul, so it's MY soul, but not necessarily the one I was born with"
asjfka 4y ago
That's how John Malkovich famously became a puppeteer

xvilka 4y ago

Then it will cause a crisis described in Nights' Dawn[1] trilogy by Peter Hamilton. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/43318-night-s-dawn https://www.goodreads.com/series/43318-night-s-dawn

notnaut 4y ago

We’re in a period of karmic-inflation, where any given soul will get you about 1/5th what it’d get you in the good old days. Nowadays you’d be lucky to die into a fish or bird - most of us are destined bugs, or industrial farm animals.

misja111 4y ago
But the insect population is rapidly decreasing, so are many fish and birds. No if you ask me, most of us will reincarnate into bacteria.
- Qem 4y ago
  Best bet are species that thrive despite or even thanks to humans. Like pets, pigeons or cockroaches.
  - aitchnyu 4y ago
    As a dwarf shrimp breeder, we must be doing the bulk of the work. We buy vividly colored dwarf shrimp, go crazy when they carry 40 eggs and gift them when when there are more than way more than the recommended 10 per liter. We also strive to maintain a ton of other tiny crustaceans, snails and worms.

bulkprotocol 4y ago

I don't believe in reincarnation but had a phase of religious study. It's generally not a 1-to-1 mapping of you die and come back as a human. Depending on the religious school of thought "you" can spend some finite time in some afterlife (good or bad) then come back as some organism, not necessarily human. Also accounting for continued biological evolution may not be homo sapien if your "soul" comes back 1000 years later. Can't say I believe in reincarnation at all.

byyyy 4y ago
There is actually a hierarchy of reincarnation with enlightenment being at the top. You can think of it like a mouse is lower form of life and if he works on his karma he can reincarnate as a racoon and then then if the racoon works on himself he can reincarnate as a monkey all the way up until enlightenment. The animal right before reincarnation as an enlightened being is of course man. But do you know what being is right before man? Woman. True story. Not even joking here. If a woman works on her karma, she supposedly can reincarnate as a man.

spyder 4y ago

Or Earth is not the only place to be reincarnated. *cue The X-Files music*

jjk166 4y ago

Who says you have to get reincarnated in the future? Maybe next up you'll be a 17th century peasant. Hell everyone that has ever and will ever live could all just be the same person. [0] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

streakfix 4y ago
Give me the number of your dealer
streakfix 4y ago
> Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you. funkytown playing in the background
ransackdev 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI

bentcorner 4y ago

I don't believe in reincarnation but sometimes I like to think that my "outie" is playing a video game (https://youtu.be/szzVlQ653as?t=25 https://youtu.be/szzVlQ653as?t=25)

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jollyllama 4y ago

You're assuming all the ones on the way out have souls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylics