Is reincarnation real?

[Anonymous No.18041500]

I've seen too many smart people believe in some version of reincarnation to dismiss it right away. Thinking about it makes no sense to me, what would be even the point reincarnation? Why can't I remember past memories? Why did I reincarnate into an incel? Where do souls come from and are new souls born every day to accommodate for the increase in population size? How can I figure out what my mission in life is?

What is the most convincing book on reincarnation?

[Anonymous No.18041524]

>>18041500
>Tell me what books will convince me of [retarded idea that I already believe to be true], although I won't read them or even google their names.
why are all /lit/ threads like this now

[Anonymous No.18041539]

>>18041500
I unironically think the New Agers are right on this one and this is more or less a kind of school in which we incarnate because there are specific things we need to learn. Although I believe the purpose might be different for everyone, for example this might be a prison for some, a school for others.
The dharmic view seems retarded to me though.

[Anonymous No.18041544]

>>18041539
>I unironically think the New Agers are right
>The dharmic view seems retarded to me though.
lmao, the absolute state of this board. I'm done.

[Anonymous No.18041552]

>>18041544
I knew my post would attract seethe, but I stand by what I said.

[Anonymous No.18041555]

>>18041539
But how did you even come to believe in reincarnation, was it out of necessity? A religious person believing in Christ might say that God is necessary for the existence of moral claims and absolutes. A Platonist will say that the idea of Forms is the best defense against relativism. What does the person who believes in reincarnation have to say?

[Anonymous No.18041594]

>>18041555
I don't subscribe to the view that we come back here millions of times, and I don't know what ultimate reality is like or what exactly happens once we're done with this place or how to be done with it. The people who say "you'll keep reincarnating until you achieve [thing]" have always seemed like they were fear-mongering to me.
It's not out of necessity, it just makes intuitive sense to me that this existence is not all there is, and from there, the idea of temporary incarnation and different possible worlds in which you can incarnate seems more plausible to me than this being the only thing that exists leading to a one-size fits all afterlife.

[Anonymous No.18041622]

>>18041500
Just because you cannot find a strict point does not mean it doesn't exist.

[Anonymous No.18041628]

>>18041500
It isn't real, not even in orthodox Buddhism or Brahmanism. Read Coomaraswamy, start with "Hinduism and Buddhism"

[Anonymous No.18042733]

>>18041500
It is real. You will never know when it happens though, only if it will.

If your specific combination is nearly replicated, then you have lived again after death. If the genes that make you up are replicated and if they thrive in an ethnic cluster, then you live through the future generations of people like you. If your genes are lost among an alien genepool, then the chances of a near replication of yourself is impossible.

Unironically dont race mix.

[Anonymous No.18042795]

>>18042733
retard take buddy
you are not your genes

[Anonymous No.18042813]

>>18042733
most embarrassing post I've read in a while

[Anonymous No.18042816]

>>18041500
>what would even be the point reincarnation
you're part of the wheel and you have to try and break it by finding Nirvana
>Why can't I remember past memories?
impermanence
>Why did I reincarnate into an incel?
you were a rich guy who murdered or raped someone, live your life well and you'll become president sometime in the 2100s

[Anonymous No.18042837]

What if every single person is just your own reincarnation

[Anonymous No.18042841]

>>18042733
>reincarnation is when, uhh... science. yeah. genes and that sort of thing, i think.

[Anonymous No.18042843]

>>18041524
>now

[Anonymous No.18042859]

>>18042813
he's literally right though? if not in an objective sense then in a spiritual one

[Anonymous No.18042927]

Nick Land don't look so good.

[Anonymous No.18043114]

>>18041628
If I'm not mistaken, Coomaraswamy said there is a transmigration of souls, but you do not retain the jiva's past personality because it was destroyed, no? Sounds like reincarnation to me.

[Anonymous No.18043122]

Imagine that you are a rain drop sliding down a window. Now ask the question.

[Anonymous No.18043230]

>>18042795
>>18042813
>>18042841
I assume you are uncomfortable with a genuine perspective. Have you nothing to say, beyond "no thats wrong"?