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If you believe in reincarnation, do you suppose at some point everyone gets to experience the very best life imaginable? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: Goddamnit will one of you please comprehend my question and give a relevant response.

I didn't ask whether or not you think souls are real or what you think about Buddha

This is not a creative writing prompt nor a place for you to pontificate your religious ponderings! 🙄

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[–] mdhughes@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Well, I don't believe in reincarnation, so NO.

But suppose that I did. What does that mean? Do you retain your memories and respawn like a videogame character? Get to be a baby who knows everything as an adult? That's a weird life, and probably not "best".

If you don't retain your memories, then what is "you"? Some kind of … virus? Whatever, hopping between bodies, unable to do anything to affect their outcome. So now it's down to random chance.

What's the "very best life imaginable"? Imaginable, not real? The real life you spawn into isn't going to meet that standard, so never.

Like most religious ideas, it doesn't define any of its terms, and they don't make sense when you do.