LmB@lemmy.zip to ShowerthoughtsEnglish · 10 days agoSuicide rates would likely rise sharply if reincarnation were ever proven.message-squaremessage-square295linkfedilinkarrow-up1529arrow-down118
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minus-squaredan1101linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·9 days agoThere would be reincarnation preachers, coaches, and scammers, promising you an ideal reincarnated life.
minus-squareHertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 days agoWell those already exist.
minus-squareCanaconda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days agoYa but this time the koolaid would be on the poster
minus-squarepotoooooooo ✅️linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoI legitimately don’t follow the analogy?
minus-squareCanaconda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days 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 ✅️linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days 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-up2·9 days agoThe whole thing is a hypothetical so who knows?
minus-squareRandom Dent@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoThey’d also probably make it so that debt carries over into your next life.
minus-squareBloomcolelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 days agoAnd it would work. there’s a sucker born every day
minus-squareBloomcolelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 days 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