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>>25143351Really? I find it too straightforward to be interesting. Voyeurism is more fascinating to me, for example.
>>25143390I will be taking a week-long vacation from this 4chan because this place is not good for my mental health. Who knows, maybe this thread will still be up when I return next Monday.
what's my bodycount? how about, what's your bookcount?
I'm not sure if belief in metempsychosis should make me more or less afraid of death. Like, yes, life continues when you die, great, but you have the chance to be reborn as an African child soldier or a Thai sweatshop worker slaving away sixteen hour days or as a Brazilian favela drug mule or as someone who commits a horrific crime at the age of 18 and spends the rest of his life in a maximum security prison where you die at the ripe old age of 88, this frightens the hell out of me. Of course, since you won't have memories of your previous life, you won't have anything to compare it to, but you get my point.
I have mind dysmorphia.
It's been too long since my last mental break. I miss it.
do intellectual people have less friends and are more solitary or it is a stereotype?
>>25143483I'm sure it's slightly more common but it's not a hard rule or anything. I'm positive the top professors and academics at the most elite universities have a robust social circle. Some writers were at parties in NYC constantly, some weren't.
you're all so frickin old and boring that i actually picked up a book
>>25143492good for you
>>25143432Taxa do not cross categories. A fish never becomes a horse. A white man never becomes a sub Saharan archaic hominid, or denisovan.You might be reborn under victorian Industrial smog filled london skies as a poor chimney child worker with stunted growth and tuberculosis
>>25143483Who are our peers?If love is to be "on the same wavelength", a weird, and borderline mad, genius would only find friends for the masks he wears
>>25143498I guess the real cheat code is I hope in every life I realize the truth about reincarnation/metempsychosis early, so if I roll a bad life, I can suicide early.
fuck I'm feeling manic again and want to pull an all nighter but I know I shouldn't
>>25143432To be frank I don't see how that is supposed to affect or worry you. If the soul sheds away all the qualities that recognizeably make you who you are then it's functionally no longer 'you'. If you aren't worried about the atoms making up your body being reconfigured to make up unpleasant things you shouldn't be worried about your soul doing the same thing.>>25143498Not how Metempsychosis works in any tradition.
>>25143518'cuz it'll be the same consciousness.
>>25143520Will this consciousness retain anything from 'you'?
>>25143527Only the fact that I'll be the one 'experiencing' the sensations, memories, and thoughts.
>>25143518>Not how Metempsychosis works in any tradition.Exactly how metempsychosis works in Platonism.Soul transcends time, there's no reason why you'd be reborn in the future when you can't remember past lives anyway, you could be reborn in antiquity or prehistory. Soul is nonlinear.And Essences do not change. You will always be human because your body is an ikon of your soul, it is thus impossible for you to be anything other than the type of thing that you already are.Sure, you might dream a day as a bird once you've a god. Or be cursed into a donkey trapped behind its irrational eyes, but this isn't really metempsychosis but play or soul-prison (you won't have free will as a donkey, but will be forcefully carried along unable to intervene in whatever it happens to do.)
>>25143536>Soul transcends time, there's no reason why you'd be reborn in the future when you can't remember past lives anyway, you could be reborn in antiquity or prehistory. Soul is nonlinear.So there's a life 'ahead' of me where my first memory is gonna be getting pierced by a spear from a Neanderthal, then burned alive? Great.
Bats are cute
>>25143541die, rodent, die!
