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[narcasse]

I suppose the point would be if that if you’re going to fail you may as well fail hard.

I can almost see what they were reaching for with this and the first part of the question does make perfect sense but then we get into the realms of Buddhism doesn’t work like that. In a sentence it goes from reasonable question to fuckwit territory and that honestly is an impressive level of incomprehension. I can’t decide if I’m more offended on a Buddhist level or because common sense is very evidently not as common as everybody likes to think it is.

All that said I have had on occasion to explain to people what the point of reincarnation would be because they just don’t seem to get it and never seem to manage to absorb the information through the usual sources. Reincarnation is a learning curve not an ongoing party. In fact I’m amazed at just how many people don’t get that because it’s a ‘mystical Eastern belief’ and the monks are just too polite to call them on their idiocy.

At least this serves as another reminder of why Kant believed that while humanity as a whole can progress: individuals really tend to stay mired in their idiocy. I’ve been being reminded that the vast majority of the world are idiots of late but despite the fact that I know this the sheer levels of stupidity around never fail to amaze me. Oh, the wonder of the natural world.

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[lanithro.livejournal.com]

In my past life, I was Charlotte Church.

It was horrid, but I got to be drunk a lot.

Before that, I was the Enterprise D. Will Riker crashed me into a planet. Why did Picard even leave him with the keys?

[blasphemiliar.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I recalled a little problem I had in the last week where my attempt to simply explain atheism to a teacher fell on selectively deaf ears; I suppose it would have been worse had I tried to explain reincarnation as well.

And I guess the only thing to do when a question like this turns up is to apply palm to face. Preferably that belonging to the person who came up with it.