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Rich people would try to develop a technique to identify and transfer their wealth to their next life. If no way exists to identify people apart from memory, you would probably get a lot of people claiming to be the same wealthy dead person.

Things also might get ugly if people or states try to punish the reincarnations of people for whom death or a life sentence wasn't determined to be "enough" (though on the other hand, I suppose murder would be less heinous a crime since the victim just comes back and isn't gone), or if people seek out the reincarnations of dead spouses, since those reincarnated people would now be babies.

On the brighter side, if those past memories are good enough, education becomes a lot more effective since it doesn't just teach the current person but all their future incarnations until the subject matter gets forgotten or out of date.

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It's a bit dark, but I think suicide would become extremely common. Born in a third world country? Reroll. Born as the wrong gender? Mulligan. Getting old? Refresh. etc.

It would probably cause a lot of chaos in society. I think there would probably be a stigma around it unless there's a good reason, with people going out of their way to prove that they died naturally. I guess you'd have to memorize a secret phrase or something to prove you're the same person.

Also, would people even want to have kids, if it's just some random old person's mind? Not really sure how I would feel about that.

And what happens when the population decreases? Would everyone just be waiting in a queue to be born, or would they actually die? Either way, choosing to not have kids would become a bit of a tragedy of the commons.

Never mind karmic debt, you'd carry your student loans over to the next life.

Suicide would skyrocket, and people would be born with ungodly amounts of personal debt. Honestly, I don't see any positive to this.

If you always come back to life, and you remember your previous lives, is it really death? How is it really different from going to sleep?

People would know what the last seconds before death actually feels like.

Y’all already lay in bed awake at night thinking about that cringy thing you did when you were in middle school. Yeah, that thing. Y’all want lifetimes of that?

In the US? Worse, much worse. We'd have kings and queens at this point. The rich would make sure that their wealth always came back to them. People would probably have to test who their baby was before, probably a lot of adoptions and what have you. I could see parents suing the rich person if they didn't share their wealth, likely new laws would need to be enacted to insure the wealth isn't shared with anyone (and we know it'll pass because anything that hurts people always passes). I could even see a greater decline in birthrates. Who wants to carry a baby to term just to have it snatched away by the Walmart empire and leaving you with nothing but the scars? Or what if you happen to get a murderer who did heinous things?

Oh god, and debt would never, ever die. As soon as you're 18, they'd drop those same bills off, likely with interest. There would be no end to suffering, no peace at the end. You'll be in your 80's, still working to pay off debt that may be from two lifetimes ago. It would be harder for new artists as well. Just keep throwing Beyonce out there. Why get a new actor? Just keep putting the same guy in there, over and over.

Only thing I could see getting a little better is racism. Since you can't control who or what you come back as, kind of hard to hate brown people when you're just a flip of a coin away. They literally wouldn't be able to judge a book by its cover.

No one mentioned the sh$@! Lovers would go through. Like its great if you always have your soul mate but what happens if you love 2 different souls in 2 different life times and now they exist at same time or worst none exist at all.

This is a great question which brings ones thoughts close to understanding the very nature of existence.

If you were god, with a singular and all encompassesing consciousness, without any concept of a self seperate to others, then you would be alone, and eventually bored.

So we forget that we are god and variety becomes the spice of life, as 'they' say.

You dont't even have to believe in anything to understand this. Just for a moment, suspend disbelief, and just toy with the idea that you're god. Little you, capital G. But, so is everyone and everything else around you. In fact, your true self is everything, everywhere, all at once for all time.

If this is true then past lives, future lives, remember them, forsee them, it doesn't matter. What matters is, you keep going.

As an exercise, try taking a walk around your local store with the idea in your mind that you and everyone around you are inhabited by the same entity. How does it make you feel? Are you there for them or are they there for you? Can you see yourself being seen by yourself?

I believe the closest you one can be to god, is to understand that you are it, without actually having the experience. But this knowledge is what begins to build an enlightened mind and at once this person sees the absurdity of things like war or poverty. However, other things like sexual intercourse become a little unusual.

Ultimately, you want to forget. Many will discard these words as nonsense, reinstate disbelief and carry on with the delusion for many, many lives to no end. But thats ok, for humans are but one avenue of the godly experience.

2 words: Fuckin' awesome!

who would you like to be the incarnation of?

I would like to be Ataw Wallpa Churin de Wayna Qhapaq Tiyanhapiy

Horrible. Hell on Earth, even more hellish than it already is.

Like, when I kms, I wanna end this. If I get reincarnated, I want a fresh start, not having to fullfill past promises.

Can you imagine being the Avatar?

The Dragon Reborn in Wheel of Time?

Jesus christ, I'd go avatar state and kms to end it all. Or balefire myself. Fuck that. I aint gonna go on an adventure every life, learning 4 elements every fucking life. Or fight a battle with the evil forces of the universe, nor sell my soul to the Dark One. I wanna chill and watch TV, or play a video game, or just chill and not worry about the world ending.

Reincarnation is "meh", but fuck the memories. Don't want them unless every other soul in the universe become "enlightened" and conflict ends, and everyone stops judging me for past actions.