cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/61827321
Surprisingly, it’s been 1.5 years since this was last asked.
I pick Peregrine Falcon. They thrive all across the globe, they’re fast as fuck when they’re in a dive, they’re the cutest killers, but they’re not at the top of the pecking order, which means a lust for life.
Universe’s recycling of ALL energies ( including meaning ) contained within it is rigged: the only way to opt-out is to evolve one’s way out: force-dissolving one’s soul-ignorance/soul-ignosis…
Please read the brilliant Huston Smith book “World Religions”, the Hindu, & Buddhist chapters, & also the Primal Religions chapter, for an angle that Western-educated minds never would have thought-of…
Just for interesting-perspective, is all…
It’s a wonderful book: real mental exercise!
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For that, I would need to believe in some concept of a soul; I do not. What makes us is the electrical systems interacting with our nurons. When that stops working, that person no longer exists.
Last-century, I was Catholic.
I earned, in deep meditation/trance, memories that didn’t even fit human-sentience properly.
Years-later, I discovered they had been soul/continuum memories of other kinds of lives.
THAT nuked ALL the Abrahamic religions, at one single evidence.
It also nuked atheism.
It took me years to adjust my worldview to the evidence.
I see no reason for you to either do the experiment yourself, or to accept any testimony by anyone who has honestly done the years-of-meditating to earn such results.
“The Boy who Knew Too Much” is 1 book providing evidence that universe recycles-continuums, & lives are just momentary-stops of continuums: some accept that it falsifies the no-soul axiom.
There are academic publications, including a book of 100+ case-studies, of children who too-accurately could describe previous-lives, & their details: some accept that that entire-sea-of-evidence falsifies the no-soul axiom.
But I see no reason for anyone who holds it to be axiomatic that that’s inherently untrue bunk, to bother testing-the-evidence, let-alone accepting ANY evidence contradicting their belief.
That is your, & all, right to your religion.
Constitutionally-protected, here…
Universe is going to recycle your continuum, whether you “believe in it” or not: it’s blunt physics: ALL energies CONTAINED in universe, get recycled.
There are methods of making the process less-horrible, but they require taking the long view: working to earn future-lives having better-results.
Do what you can to eradicate what I’m saying from significance, for your-world’s your-religion’s benefit: that is good: Nature is competitive!
Let natural-selection of ideas happen.
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