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If reincarnation is real, I guess the afterlife faces a crisis due to the impending demographic crash here. The lines of souls awaiting reincarnation are about to get real long, as lots of people die of old age without people having children to ensure a fast return.

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Who says you have to get reincarnated in the future? Maybe next up you'll be a 17th century peasant. Hell everyone that has ever and will ever live could all just be the same person.

[0] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

> Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.

funkytown playing in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI

Give me the number of your dealer

We’re in a period of karmic-inflation, where any given soul will get you about 1/5th what it’d get you in the good old days.

Nowadays you’d be lucky to die into a fish or bird - most of us are destined bugs, or industrial farm animals.

But the insect population is rapidly decreasing, so are many fish and birds. No if you ask me, most of us will reincarnate into bacteria.

Best bet are species that thrive despite or even thanks to humans. Like pets, pigeons or cockroaches.

As a dwarf shrimp breeder, we must be doing the bulk of the work. We buy vividly colored dwarf shrimp, go crazy when they carry 40 eggs and gift them when when there are more than way more than the recommended 10 per liter. We also strive to maintain a ton of other tiny crustaceans, snails and worms.

I don't believe in reincarnation but had a phase of religious study. It's generally not a 1-to-1 mapping of you die and come back as a human. Depending on the religious school of thought "you" can spend some finite time in some afterlife (good or bad) then come back as some organism, not necessarily human. Also accounting for continued biological evolution may not be homo sapien if your "soul" comes back 1000 years later. Can't say I believe in reincarnation at all.

There is actually a hierarchy of reincarnation with enlightenment being at the top.

You can think of it like a mouse is lower form of life and if he works on his karma he can reincarnate as a racoon and then then if the racoon works on himself he can reincarnate as a monkey all the way up until enlightenment.

The animal right before reincarnation as an enlightened being is of course man.

But do you know what being is right before man?

Woman.

True story. Not even joking here. If a woman works on her karma, she supposedly can reincarnate as a man.

Or Earth is not the only place to be reincarnated. *cue The X-Files music*

Then it will cause a crisis described in Nights' Dawn[1] trilogy by Peter Hamilton.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/43318-night-s-dawn

You're assuming all the ones on the way out have souls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylics

I reckon they'll just go stuffing multiple souls into each baby.

Has anyone tried counting the number of souls per body?

If you watch certain tiktok channels too much, you open up space for more souls to enter. Seems to works best for younger girls though.

Cool. I'm gonna seek out some extra souls and then do a roaring trade with some demons.

"Why yes, I do currently own this soul, so it's MY soul, but not necessarily the one I was born with"

That's how John Malkovich famously became a puppeteer

I don't believe in reincarnation but sometimes I like to think that my "outie" is playing a video game (https://youtu.be/szzVlQ653as?t=25)

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