What's the point of reincarnation? If I was a chinese fisherman in my previous life then that person is dead because I can't remember anything about his life
>>25086715isn't any point, if it's thought through. it's just as senseless as spending eternity at the foot of the Throne, singing "holy, holy, holy".
>>25086715>What's the point of reincarnation?It's just a way for Indians to feel better about their fear of death, don't worry about it
>>25086718>spending eternity at the foot of the Thronehow is everbody going to fit?
>>25086715reincarnation is a way to take the concept of a soul and feed it back into the material world so that you never get out of the material world except through nirvana
>>25086715>What's the point of reincarnation?Clinging to ignorance.
>>25086715What if you loose your memory in this very life? Do you stop being you?
>>25086715The Dalai Lama compares it to weather. Today's weather is influenced by yesterday's weather though they're entirely different.
>>25086715It's a cope, humans are desperate to believe some part of them survives after death
>>25086738>>25086938>copeThis is the materialist atheist's favorite meaningless buzzword to throw around.
>>25086949okay
>>25086715it's funny how reincarnation is associated with buddhism when the buddha's enlightenment was his realization that it was bullshit
>>25086952I don't understand why you're like this.
>>25086953Buddha literally talked about past lives multiple times.
>>25086738>>25086938Reincarnation in eastern philosophy is viewed as a curse not a consolation.
>>25086718so what fag, do you hate existence or something? cringe
>>25086958he also buddha disproved any kind of afterlife many times
>>25086936This. If you believe that your consciousness (and associated mental phenomena) can be reincarnated after your death via a futuristic computer through data collected during your lifetime, then you must also believe that an entirely physical (read, biological) process could create a biological organism capable of recreating that same consciousness and associated mental phenomena. In other words, reincarnation (or rebirth strictly speaking in the Buddhist sense, reincarnation is used here simply because ppl are more familiar with the term) can be made completely physicalist if you believe in the "consciousness reincarnation through computer" hypothesis.Whether you believe in such a hypothesis is for you to decide. But if you do so, you must accept the conclusion of natural, physical reincarnation as well. With this also comes the inevitable fact that at least some of the properties of your mental phenomena exist in the reincarnated consciousness, which is essentially a physicalist form of karma. Thus, karma and reincarnation are plausible hypotheses even if you take a physicalist viewpoint.
>>25086973>disprovedNo he didn't, and again why are you dismissing his vivid recollections of his previous lives?https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/TruthOfRebirth/Section0004.html
>>25086756heaven is bigger than minecraft
>>25086969I can tell you're a teenager who doesn't live in any kind of danger or pain or even inconvenience. cringe.
>>25087023>And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.-Genesis 1:31keep being a reprobate.
>>25086715the point is, if reincarnation is true, pedophilia, incest, and bestiality don't exist.
>>25086979NTA, but Nirvana is basically just oblivion. The mind stops thinking and the soul stops reincarnating.
>>25086949I'm a believer of God>>25086968Obese people view food as a curse too.
>>25086718>at the foot of the ThroneRead the bible retard
>>25086936Dalai lama also likes to stick his tongue into little boys mouth (and probably other boy places too)
>>25086715>/lit/ - pointless quibbling about religionFuck's your problem?
>>25086715>What's the point of reincarnation?Existence as a revolving door providing multiple opportunities for enlightenment or salvation or whatever you want to call it. That's the positive upside of but ultimately it is seen as a negative, particularly in Gnosticism where it perpetuates the spiritual prison that is the material realm
>>25086715The “point” is infinite suffering. Which is why the goal is to escape samsara.
>>25086715generally it is assumed our souls are a separate entity, put into our bodies to experience something - are you an angry person? experiencing constant overwhelming sadness? were you abused? are you an abuser? our experiences on earth are meant for something larger in the place where our souls are from and to share when they return
>>25088278/lit/ seems to be about 90% shitposts right now. Much more than when I was last here. Worse, none of them are funny anymore.
Honestly shocked how few people in this thread understand Buddhism. >>25087098>>25086759There isn't a soul in Buddhism. That's like it's whole thing. Anatman, negating hinduisms atman.>>25086973No, there are hell realms in buddhism>>25086953No, his realization was the four noble truths. What suffering is, sufferings cause, what the end of suffering looks like, and how to obtain it (noble eightfold path)
>>25086715What's the point of life? There isn't one, and there isn't one for reincarnation. Reincarnation is just an inevitability. You cannot escape samsara. Enjoy the rest of your eternity
>>25089440Why end suffering?
Can't you fuckers go bother /his with your faggotry?Here, a book suggestion: The years of rice and salt by Kim Stanley. It'll even answer a chunk of your questions.
>>25089618Nta. First, the actual word in the Buddhas language is dukkha. It encompasses nearly all forms of "suffering" like grief, but also just not feeling fulfilled. Or a paper cut. To answer you: suffering in and of itself has no value, i think most can agree on this. We endure it for our wants and it will nearly always be required here in samsara(cycle of birth and death), baring extraordinary circumstances. You will have lives where things are amazing and loving and you get your dick sucked by a harem of 22 blonde virgins, and you will have lives where your a Vietnamese rice farmer with no legs. It goes on and on and on and on until you decide that it is not worth it anymore. But when you get out of the cycle you still exist as an individual(contested by some buddhists) and you will feel a type of spiritual contentment/bliss that I'm frankly not qualified to describe. Basically, if you still want ephemeral worldly pleasure then suffering comes in a combo pack. If your starting to tire of the flashing lights and baubles of the material world. You seek a way out of samsara, for something ultimately greater in the beyond. Most folks focus on maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. Which is fine for them and no one should make them try to seek enlightenment or anything. Whether in this life or in the millionth, they'll get tired of the never ending wheel. That means seeking the end of dukkha.
>>25089618Buddhists believe whatever peace and happiness comes with nirvana is a greater happiness than whatever joy could be found in the worldly life. So even if you enjoy life with all it's ups and downs, they would argue you're living in delusion and missing out on a greater bliss.
>>25086715Rebirth is a necessity for kamma to work.
>>25086715A stepping stone to break away from.
>>25086715>that person is dead because I can't remember anything about his life>like you're not constantly ship of thesusing your own cells out of existence and you never exchanged electrons or DNA with anyone or anything>like conservation of energy isn't a fundamental feature of the universeWhat you need to ask is what's the point of time or matter?
>bro what's the point of reading a book if you're not gonna remember reading it 10 years from now anyway!Experiences shape your consciousness whether you vividly remember them or not.
