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Originally Posted by Angushjalmur
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What are your thoughts on reincarnation?
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First of all, I do certainly hope reincarnation is a thing. Just disappearing into nothing doesn't look fun as a prospect.
Your idea of having a finite number of souls is closely related to what I suppose. When I mean "soul", I don't mean it in a religious way. A soul is basically what makes me, me, or you, you.
For some particular reason, you see the world through your body's eyes, not through mine. I see the world through my eyes and not through anyone else's in the world eyes. When I die, I want to believe that my soul will completely forget what happened in this particular body, and will inhabit another body from birth to death, and my soul will see the world through that body's eyes (and maybe ask itself the same questions, who knows).
I think there may or may not be a finite number of souls. Maybe souls are created or even destroyed with some regularity.
I wonder, if I am reincarnated in someone - what it will be. I certainly hope it will be someone as nice and brilliant (and modest) as me right now, but what if I have to deal with being some kind of reject?
Here's another theory - maybe what makes you, you, is not the body you are reincarnated into - but your soul. You will always be, no matter what you are reincarnated into this time, something close to yourself right now. This is a bit far fetched but certainly appeals to me to some extent.