“Hey, if you die in this life, you can come back as a bug that gets eaten by another bug shortly after hatching. And then you can do this for the next 10,000 years until you get lucky enough to come back as something remotely sentient.”
Sounds like that shit sucks, man. You have a real pivotal moment in this life to embrace dharma and appeal to heaven for a higher place in the great pattern. I’ll admit, I’m not much of a mystic, but I don’t think eating a bullet after a night spent guzzling whiskey is what gets you up the ladder.
Okay, but then you’re not talking about reincarnation in the Hindu/Buddhist sense. You’re talking about the kind of Past Lives shit that western spiritualists are into.
Still kinda means you can reset your current crap life and hope for a better future one, even if you don’t get to remember everything about the previous one(s). I mean, I’d personally argue it’s functionally different lives at that point, but there’s still a primitive part of me that feels like it counts as a continuation of me even though everything that makes me will be lost.
Reincarnation into what?
“Hey, if you die in this life, you can come back as a bug that gets eaten by another bug shortly after hatching. And then you can do this for the next 10,000 years until you get lucky enough to come back as something remotely sentient.”
Sounds like that shit sucks, man. You have a real pivotal moment in this life to embrace dharma and appeal to heaven for a higher place in the great pattern. I’ll admit, I’m not much of a mystic, but I don’t think eating a bullet after a night spent guzzling whiskey is what gets you up the ladder.
Not if you declare that animals do not have souls, and only people can feel things.
Okay, but then you’re not talking about reincarnation in the Hindu/Buddhist sense. You’re talking about the kind of Past Lives shit that western spiritualists are into.
I mean, ok? I’ll live as a billion bugs until I come back as a human or something… but I will come back.
But what if all that “bug life” drives people insane and is actually why human beings dont remember past lives.
Still kinda means you can reset your current crap life and hope for a better future one, even if you don’t get to remember everything about the previous one(s). I mean, I’d personally argue it’s functionally different lives at that point, but there’s still a primitive part of me that feels like it counts as a continuation of me even though everything that makes me will be lost.
I ain’t appealing for shit. Bugs are awesome. If I get eaten, I’m just coming back again, witches. I can do this all day.
Yeah, but I have to go to work, you know?
So time to spin the wheel!