Comment on If there was an afterlife, how would it work?
Psiczar@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Reincarnation. Unless we’re all in the matrix that’s the only thing I can imagine being remotely plausible.
Waking up in some paradise with all of our loved ones who died before us there is just absurd and I’m amazed so many people blindly accept it.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 months ago
Even that has a big issue.
By some estimates there are more humans alive now than have ever died in the past...
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Nobody said anything about being reincarnated as a human 😜
dope@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There might even be multiple worlds.
And maybe a “soul” can be divided.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Most religions that believe in reincarnation believe people can be reincarnated as animals, which would also mean animals can be reincarnated into humans. There are a lot more humans now, but also a lot less bisons and dodos.
It’s very small thinking that earth is the only planet with life, what’s to say that souls don’t reincarnate from one planet to another?
Most religions that talk about reincarnation mention a dimension above time when you’re not incarnated, as such it might be possible for a soul to reincarnate at the same time it’s already incarnated. In fact certain religions take this to an extreme of saying we’re all the same.
There are plenty of rational answers to that problem.
LostXOR@kbin.social 7 months ago
IIRC the amount of humans who have ever lived is estimated at around 100 billion, much more than the current population of 8 billion.