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! 🙄

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    11 months ago

    Okay, but OP’s prompt specifically addressed people who believe in reincarnation.

    That’s like responding to “People who like potatoes, what’s your favorite way to cook them?” with “None, I don’t like potatoes.” Isn’t really relevant to the topic.

    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      I don’t believe in reincarnation but I don’t dismiss it either. There’s simply no proof. Though, with how much stuff we record and keep track of now, seems like if someone’s past life occurs in this time period it’d be possible to fact check.

      I didn’t think there were really any different types either; at least from what I gather from your comment. For me, it only means past lives residing in your body. Nothing from the future. That’s the only way it’s ever been presented to me.

      You suggested everyone experiences all of their lives at once. I only said I don’t see how that can be true if I don’t currently experience that. I am included in everyone.

      And I’m not going to toss out apparent truths to try to fit beliefs in. That’s why I also stated I have no reason to believe time is anything but linear since that is how it appears to be now. We don’t have a full grasp on time but future events having physical affects on the present, or past, seems pretty problematic.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        11 months ago

        For me, it only means past lives residing in your body. Nothing from the future. That’s the only way it’s ever been presented to me.

        Well then, here’s the different presentation I was referring to.

        I wasn’t talking about everyone experiencing all their lives at once, I was talking about all lives being experiences of the same soul, fractured across time and space, each experiencing only the most immediate. Linear time is quite possibly just an illusion of human perception, the filtering of some higher dimensional entity through our limited form. Kinda like when you view a CT scan as a sequence of 2-dimensional images.