/dev/null Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 i'd want to come back as Kate Upton's bicycle seat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
....lybob Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 If you come back with no memories exactly what is living on - I suppose if in between lives you'd retain the experiences and got to compare experiences with other souls that would be cool, if living in the material world was sort of a high level RPG that would be some what interesting but what differentiates souls from one another? would different souls have different lives given the exact same DNA and exact same environment? and of course what is death? if everyone returned 3 days later I think more people would jump on grenades- I don't really understand how people hold these two beliefs simultaneously, death is the end and death is just a transformation but some how most people do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Skynet would become frustrated at its inability to stamp out the human race, go insane when it couldn't figure out which new body John Connor was in, and the machines would eventually turn on each other. Arnold Schwarzenegger would be out of work, the industrial revolution would reverse, and humans would revert to an agrarian society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Skynet would become frustrated at its inability to stamp out the human race, go insane when it couldn't figure out which new body John Connor was in, and the machines would eventually turn on each other. Arnold Schwarzenegger would be out of work, the industrial revolution would reverse, and humans would revert to an agrarian society. You'd never get to sleep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Personally, I wouldn't really care. Outside of the entertainment value of watching Pat Robertson deny it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireChan Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 (edited) I'd immediately begin advocating for the death of: addicts, criminals, the handicapped (mentally or physically), any adults not self sufficient, any one living in poor farming conditions or famine, etc. The people still die. Wiping the hard drive clean is the same as killing who they are. Theoretically. Would you care if you came back to Earth if you weren't you? Edited July 16, 2015 by FireChan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 i'd want to come back as Kate Upton's bicycle seat Kate Upton? You can do better than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 The people still die. Wiping the hard drive clean is the same as killing who they are. Theoretically. Would you care if you came back to Earth if you weren't you? I'm trying not to view it through the moral prism of this reality. I'm reasoning that such a society's morality would be exceptionally utilitarian in it's views towards death under those circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireChan Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I'm trying not to view it through the moral prism of this reality. I'm reasoning that such a society's morality would be exceptionally utilitarian in it's views towards death under those circumstances. But what I'm arguing is that the circumstances change nothing. Either way, what makes me who I am is gone. Death with reincarnation, making a different person, with a different upbringing etc. is not me living on. It's another person. Another life. Nothing different than me dying in the real world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 But what I'm arguing is that the circumstances change nothing. Either way, what makes me who I am is gone. Death with reincarnation, making a different person, with a different upbringing etc. is not me living on. It's another person. Another life. Nothing different than me dying in the real world.I'm not sure that they don't. I'll have to think on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 But what I'm arguing is that the circumstances change nothing. Either way, what makes me who I am is gone. Death with reincarnation, making a different person, with a different upbringing etc. is not me living on. It's another person. Another life. Nothing different than me dying in the real world. But there would still be social change because of it. Attitudes about death would be different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I do know this. We'd spend shitloads less money on end of life care. Just let them go. Assisted suicide should be made legal for those terminally I'll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Ok, and who did you use to be, in another life? Any guesses? But, isn't there a numbers problem with that? The increasing population means there are humans being created than existed in the past While you are transitioning from this life (humble as it is for a schit stain) to the next, do you think you can request and receive some kind of ability to actually put a real sentence together? Seriously, that might get you to the top of the cow flop heap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Miner Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 The global birth to death ratio is about 2:1. So half of the births would just be the previous dead being reincarnated. Would wars equal a rise in unwanted pregnancies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Would I rez with all my loot or would I need to farm more mats every time I died? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Maybe some would realize they're coming back and want it better the next time? I'd immediately begin advocating for the death of: addicts, criminals, the handicapped (mentally or physically), any adults not self sufficient, any one living in poor farming conditions or famine, etc.Dafuq? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Would I rez with all my loot or would I need to farm more mats every time I died? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Let's say when everyone wakes up tomorrow, there's an announcement which scientifically proves reincarnation is real, that we don't ever truly "die" but instead are recycled back into new bodies after each life. How, if at all, would you expect this knowledge to change people's lives? How, if at all, would you expect our social institutions and governments to change? Thoughts? Doofus Sam Harris would have to come up with a new schtick or he would never get laid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeviF Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Doofus Sam Harris would have to come up with a new schtick or he would never get laid. Pretty sure he doesn't get laid regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Pretty sure he doesn't get laid regardless. You underestimate the dumbness of broads everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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