I remember the first time when I was a kid and went to a dentist. I got my baby teeth pulled without anesthesia. It hurts, ALOT. At the time I remembered thinking: But if I die, I have to do that again? Noooooo
Same thing with all the bullying in school, all the embarassing things that happen, all the homework/classwork, all the tests, everything.
IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN!
Think you got your worldview and political ideology correct? Well, you could become a bad person the next life.
(but hey, this is just a theory, a game theory an existential crisis theory)
(Sorry if this sounds so bizzare, I’m not high or anything, I just have anxiety and I have to get weird thoughts out of my head by posting it 🫠)
You are your memories and your choices.
… What would it matter if you do not remember being the previous you?
For all intents and purposes… those are two different people.
Just as you at 10 is a somewhat to significantly different person than you at 30, 50, 80, etc.
Don’t you get reborn in a different time period and body? Or is that The Egg ?
I love that one … you get reborn endlessly until you eventually live every single life in the universe.
You are essentially the only life in the universe. You are everything and everyone that ever lived.
What a profound awakening it would be if we/us/you suddenly realized this.
So… are you me in the future or in the past? Like… did I already lived that life or is that a life I have yet to live?
It’s a short story by Andy Weir.
Kurzgesagt animated it - https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI
Yeah, maybe. But I’d also get to watch Firefly again for the first time.
lol try my trick and just age 5 to 10 years such that you genuinely forget a good deal of it hahaha
Please no thank you just the one time is enough
The Four Noble Truths, or the truths of the Noble Ones,[66] express the basic orientation of Buddhism: everything is impermanent, yet we crave and cling to impermanent states and things, which is dukkha, “incapable of satisfying” and painful.[67][68] This keeps us caught in saṃsāra, metaphysicallty interpreted as the endless cycle of repeated rebirth, dukkha and dying again;[note 5] also interpreted as a psychological cycle of repetitious rebirth of the ego.
But there is a way to liberation from this endless cycle[74] to the state of nirvana, namely following the Noble Eightfold Path.[note 6]
Isn’t that more like if you’re stuck in a time loop?
My understanding is that if you’re reincarnated you’re still in the current timeline (ie time has continued to pass), you’re just now in a different body.
And if it’s not a dharmic path-style of reincarnation and you’re just reincarnated into whatever living creature needs a soul, you’d probably come back as some kind of bacterium for the next 200 trillion times before – if you’re reeeeallly lucky – then reincarnating as a tardigrade.
If it is, then it already is, so your experience wouldn’t change from how it already is, which you’ve already been through… So the concept that it’s worse (or any different) to go through again ends up being moot.
