There are a lot of bad countries to be born into, I mean just look up the countries with the top number of births.
Also, reincarnation might not be limited to humans… lots of factory farm animals out there for you to be reincarnated as… 👀
Honestly its one of the reasons I wanna live this life as long as I can, I wanna delay being in Afganistan, or North Korea, or a mouse that gets killed by the housecat, or being a damn cockroach.
unironically, the only reason i havent killed myself by now is the fact that all afterlife nonsense is clearly copium-bullshit. this is the only life we get so shit has to get really bad before existence is worse than non-existence
Some teachings say that being born as a human is as random as a blind sea turtle swimming from the ocean bottom to the top and hitting his head against a floating cork.
Why the fuck is my life so weird.
Like what are the odds I’m a second child born during One Child Policy… and managed to survive till birth? (cuz forced abortions were a thing)
So bizzare… so unreal…
What are the chance to having been emigrated?
60 Million Chinese moved overseas out of 1.4 Billion… 4.28% chance?
Having legal status is another subsection of that population, a lot of people allegedly migrate without official permission and is undocumented, I know a lot of classmates that supposedly have parents that migrated without permission.
Okay maybe it’s not that rare, the “good” parts is isbalanced out by the fact that I’m a pleb… with shitty parents… yay god trolled me. Can’t have too many good thing in life. Think you’re safe?
bad thing happens
Citizenship Status? Think you have freedom now?
Heheheh 2024 US election happens
what the fuck
this universe is just trolling me
haha heres a good thing…
SIKE
mom: “Hey I love you very much do you know that?”
5 minutes later
mother: “YOU LITTLE SHIT”
… 🙃 what the fuck…
I wonder where my sould would be if CCP just aborted me…
fuck this shit… GIMME NORWAY PLS
Since no one can remember their past lives, I would say that it wouldn’t much matter what we are next, or what we were before. All those things, what if you were those before? You could have been someone horrifically tortured to death in the Middle Ages/Dark Ages, but you wouldn’t remember it now. So, it wouldn’t much matter what you are in the next life.
Since there’s no tracking from life to life, there’s no purpose to it. Nothing is gained. Like if you were mean to a specific kind of person in one life, and you became one of those people (say, a Muslim, or an overweight person) in your next life. I mean so what? It’s not like you learn your lesson, having gone from a bigot of privilege to the victim of said biogtry. Everyone has it rough somewhere. And no one gets out alive.
I used to know a guy in middle school who at one point, believed that there was a kind of active memory reincarnation. You don’t remember while alive, but between lives you remember it all, so you choose or you are assigned a future life depending on what you need to learn to reach enlightenment. In that future life, your memory is wiped, but when you’re done living that life, you have all the previous life memories and you keep doing that until you figure out what you need to in order to reach enlightenment. I don’t think it was Buddhism or Taoism or any of those Eastern religions. It sounded made up. I don’t recall the name. And he never really got involved with it, he was just telling me about it and I never quite forgot.
Somebody else already posted Andy Weir’s “The Egg” in this comment section so I’ll just pull this excerpt from it instead of linking the whole thing again.
“Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had.
“You’ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”
The Egg by Andy Weir
A short horror story:
You die.
You meet “god”.
God says: “Next life, you’re born as one of the victims of Epstein Island”
💀
So in other words, you’re a pretty girl with a rough home life so you end up getting trafficked.
Not to sound like a dick, but most endings to that story wind up far, far worse than winding up on a Caribbean (or wherever TF it is) island with a bunch of rich dudes. I think most wind up strung out, OD’d, battered, on their own with a couple kids and no real means to support themselves and no skills to speak of, aside from turning tricks nobody wants because they’re so messed up. Except for more messed up dudes.
Not to minimise anyone’s suffering, but I’d say the far more likely outcome of winding up in a crack house is far worse. Most of those women and girls would probably kill to wind up on a billionaire’s island. A slave in luxury lives a bit better than a slave in poverty.
Make it the Middle East and it gets far worse. Some time in second or third grade, a bunch of older women grab you, drag you into an abandoned building, strip you, and maim you so you can’t ever really experience pleasure, because pleasure is reserved for males. You get an infection and die without ever having really lived, or you don’t and you’re a sex slave but you don’t get anything out of it. Or you get something out of it but it’s so hard to reach climax that you do more and more depraved stuff (and with more partners) to get there and some of these people like it rough, so you go through hell chasing that dragon. And most of these guys know it so they’re actively working to keep you from getting there.
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Generally speaking, if you’re reading this, if you’re online, with an electronic device from this decade, and you own it, you’re in the 1%, at least worldwide. You’re one of the lucky ones. Whatever human you get reincarnated as is likely to be much worse regardless of whether you’re a girl, or a Muslim, or in the Middle East, or trafficked by billionaires. You could be starving and malnourished — in Africa, or in Detroit.
Buddhism states that you’re reborn based on what you helped create in your last life. So if you were an asshole and caused a lot of suffering, then you’re going to experience that suffering as the other side.
I must’ve accidentally kicked a puppy or something… what did I do my past life do deserve this suffering?
What do you mean? I could just kill myself until I’m born into a rich family, that would be awesome!
Monkey’s paw - you are now Elon’s umpteenth child who’s only purpose is to serve as a bullet shield.
Problem is you’d forget your plan the next life
Universe is trolling us
Oh, I watched a Korean dorama about that, the name is Death’s Game (2023). Wasn’t very good to my taste, but the idea is quite interesting.
What if reincarnation was just a religious misinterpretation of the concept that all your matter will be recycled infinitely into the environment as compost, then grass, trees, salmon, bears, beetles, mushrooms and bacteria etc, all at the same time.
Under the principle that you are the universe experiencing itself subjectively, recycling yourself now or later makes little difference on your endless journey other than being a wasted opportunity for experienceing it all. A human has an amazing opportunity to experience thought, music, wine, chocolate, love and all the other things in the way a mushroom likely doesn’t.
Even if reincarnation is real, it really wouldn’t be you living as a cockcroach.
Oh?
Please tell us what it IS then, since maybe you’ve gone to the other side and made it back in any significant way like exactly no one in this world has.
Let’s assume it’s real. Do you identify yourself with any of your past lives?
How should I know that I had any, and how can you tell? It’s not like there are symptoms; or even a thermometer to gauge if one has had one. Some must be doing it for the first time.
Seems like you just proved my point.
I don’t know how I did, but not everyone here is playing with a full deck of cards. So, Cheers.
You could have just asked and then you wouldn’t have to go hide behind a transparent facade.
Why should I ask anything if there is nothing I want to know? I think you’re projecting.
