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 🫠)

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    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]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism