I'd be tempted but what if I reincarnate into a Republican Congressman? Thats the end of the good karma train.
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Only if you got to carry over your past memories, which apparently we don't, assuming it exists. So, how would knowing that it exists change anything?
I don't see what carrying over memories has to do with it. The idea here is that if you're living a painful or unhappy life then you could just switch over to living a different life that's more pleasant.
The odds are against you. You're probably going to get a much worse life than this one, especially if you're right now able to muse about the concept on the internet.
Nah, you can just keep respawning as many times as you like until you wind up living a great one
Once you get old enough to understand, and trust, and have agency. Until then, good luck.
But if you dont have the memories and get born into North Korea... will you ever even find out about reincarnarion?
Maybe. If it's tied to a kharmic system and not sticking it out led to worse incarnations, that'd probably be a good countering force.
Never underestimate the pull of the devil you know.
I would only do it if I didn’t come back as a human.
Depends on which human. I would love to live a Dick Van Dyke life. He just turned 100 and said his secret to long life is that he's always happy.
Yeah but there will only ever be one Dick Van Dyke.
It was just an example showing it depends on which type of life you wind up in
I’d still rather be a beetle.
Even Dick had to wear pants.
“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.
Any thought out system with reincarnation would penalize you for suicide. I seem to remember that Buddhists believe your next life is determined by your performance in this one. You like climb a ladder of existence, and just being a human as opposed to an ant or something is a sign of long term success climbing that ladder. I dont recall what the top was, some spiritual being probably. Go forth and Google.
Ritual suicide is very much a thing in certain systems that believe in reincarnation. At some points it seen as a perfectly rational and pragmatic choice, but yes, you need to do it with specific practices and intentions. Not just "well, life sucks, I'll just reroll".
"fuck it, reroll"
Me im first please
No way, I'm going first
This would fuck up the coming timelines with ridiculous overpopulation.