LmB@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoSuicide rates would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven.message-squaremessage-square292linkfedilinkarrow-up1526arrow-down118
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minus-squaredan1101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·1 month agoThere would be reincarnation preachers, coaches, and scammers, promising you an ideal reincarnated life.
minus-squareHertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoWell those already exist.
minus-squareCanaconda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoYa but this time the koolaid would be on the poster
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI legitimately don’t follow the analogy?
minus-squareCanaconda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown Basically any reference to drinking koolaid is referencing a suicide cult. Because reincarnation was proven they would advertize the suicide part instead of brainwashing them
minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoGotcha. I guess I agree those already exist (see your link). But I agree that’d be way more popular maybe. Except doesn’t suicide guarantee a shittier re-roll?
minus-squareCanaconda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoThe whole thing is a hypothetical so who knows?
minus-squareRandom Dent@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThey’d also probably make it so that debt carries over into your next life.
minus-squareBloomcole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoAnd it would work. there’s a sucker born every day
minus-squareIamtheMorgz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoYou mean there’s a sucker reborn every day!
minus-squareBloomcole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoBirth me once, shame on you; birth me twice, shame on me
There would be reincarnation preachers, coaches, and scammers, promising you an ideal reincarnated life.
Well those already exist.
Ya but this time the koolaid would be on the poster
I legitimately don’t follow the analogy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Basically any reference to drinking koolaid is referencing a suicide cult.
Because reincarnation was proven they would advertize the suicide part instead of brainwashing them
Gotcha. I guess I agree those already exist (see your link). But I agree that’d be way more popular maybe. Except doesn’t suicide guarantee a shittier re-roll?
The whole thing is a hypothetical so who knows?
They’d also probably make it so that debt carries over into your next life.
And it would work.
there’s a sucker born every day
You mean there’s a sucker reborn every day!
Birth me once, shame on you; birth me twice, shame on me