Robyn to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway?message-squaremessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up1158
arrow-up1158message-squareWhat if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway?Robyn to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square26linkfedilink
minus-squareaarch0x40@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 months agoYou could take refuge in the fact that you must have been a very good plankton to make it all the way to human in a single cycle.
minus-squarefonix232@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up28·2 months agoBut human existence is suffering. Buddhism teaches that if you do incredibly well, you’ll be reborn as a being with a worry-free life. Being a plankton sounds exactly like that. IMO human existence, with all its benefits, is waaaaay below plankton.
minus-squaretungah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoHe was a good christian plancton.
minus-squareaarch0x40@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThen wouldn’t he have gone to plankton heaven?
You could take refuge in the fact that you must have been a very good plankton to make it all the way to human in a single cycle.
But human existence is suffering. Buddhism teaches that if you do incredibly well, you’ll be reborn as a being with a worry-free life. Being a plankton sounds exactly like that.
IMO human existence, with all its benefits, is waaaaay below plankton.
He was a good christian plancton.
Then wouldn’t he have gone to plankton heaven?