• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
    8·
    9 months ago

    People say you come back. Reincarnation. Do you think so? Well, it doesn’t seem mathematically possible to me, man. Uh, 'course at one time what we had on the earth was six people, you know. I avoid “two” because it’s controversial but six… most people agree, “fuck, yeah, we had six at one time.” Six people, six souls… cool. They died, souls went back to the place; six new people souls- still six souls. Now we have four billion people… claiming to have souls. Someone is printing up souls… and it lowers their value, you know.

    – George Carlin

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      There’s no particular reason to think souls and reincarnation would follow the normal flow of time. If you can be reincarnated in a different place from where you lived, why not a different time? Maybe you could be reincarnated as anyone who had ever lived, or anyone ever will live. Taken to the extreme, there could be just one soul and we’re all reincarnations of each other. It’s all woo, so why not?

      • TeddE@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        Nah. The 24 hour window is so all the rich, connected people can apply for some grandfathered exemption clause that’s not available to the rest of us.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    Way easier to lie about it. Just pick babies out to be indentured servants for life to repay some imagined debts. Maybe make them feel it was their fault for not paying off the debt previously. We could even target kids from poor families for this, so they have less hope of fighting back.

    We did this already, a bunch of times.

      • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        And by “track” you mean they’d kill you over and over till you roll human.

        • tourist@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          Dont even remember past lives

          Spent 178 years as various insects and sea creatures

          Still owe $244’000 on a used honda civic rusting in a scrapyard in a completely different country

  • PatFusty@lemm.ee
    0·
    9 months ago

    .>Be me.

    .>Reincarnate into a cow.

    .>Moo. Moo moo moo.

    .>Moo moo moo moo moo.

    .>Moo

    .>🐮