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Top intellect, creativity, productivity, wealth, family, friends, deeply satisfying happiness? In my opinion those would be the ingredients of a perfect incarnation.
Reminds me, I know a man who is living this life right now and I've told him a few times, he is living the best life known to human potential.
And he's humble too so he hasn't fully embraced my lofty assessment of him π
Think of how many people are alive today, and how many people you know that are living the best possible life. Considering the exponential increase in population we've seen, and the rarity of living the best possible life, the only conclusion I can come to is that, if reincarnation exists, you are far more likely to live in abject poverty than live a life of mediocrity, let alone the best possible life.
Make the best of what you have today, for tomorrow isn't guaranteed.
Even if that were the case, one perfect lifetime amongst an infinite amount of lives that, statistically, were primarily spent in abject ~~poverty~~ misery, is still an infinite amount of suffering.
Imagine living in severe pain for your whole life with the belief that all that suffering would be worth it for one second of absolute bliss. That's insane.
You must be a joy to be around IRL.
Oh, you're the psycho with the van that pees in a bottle, from the post you deleted earlier. Fuck, you were right. You are toxic as hell.
My goofy theory is that we are in a simulation, and we go through every life once. Round robin style. That way, when they end the simulation, no one can complain that they had a worse time than someone else. Everyone gets one go around as each person. One time you are the poor guy skinned alive by barbarians, and one time you are some rich billionaire with more money than brains. Then, when the simulation is over, who knows.
Ironically, people whoβve achieved the first four often struggle with the last 3. Being at the top is often lonely because itβs hard to find people to relate to.
If you achieve all 7, that does indeed sound perfect.