Discussion Do you want to be born again or simply to cease to exist?

[Versailles]

This question is somehow related to CTB, asking yourself, what do you want for yourself, to be born again, perhaps in other circumstances? Or simply to cease to exist?

For me, I would choose either one, both seem fine to me

 

[xrafinha]

I'd like to be born the same person but not be bond to the same mistakes, that would be nice.

 

[Symbiote]

I rather cease to exist. Why be born again to experience the flip of a coin tragedies that can befall you at any moment? To experience pain and hurt from things outside your control? Tired of life itself and tired of so-called dreams of the afterlife. Just obliterate my soul into dust and let it blow away into the cosmos.

 

[hʚll]

not existing anymore

 

[FuneralCry]

I would choose to cease to exist. The thing with life is there is no limit as to how bad it can get. The cause of all of our problems is the fact that we exist in the first place. There is unlimited potential for suffering. Non existence is an ideal state for me. Nothing is objectively better.

 

[suicidesheep31]

be born again imply that you die, re-incarnate in human again. Maybe my interpretation of the thread is wrong.
But I would prefer to just cease to be. period.

 

[Moose.000]

Born again without a coerced soul contract.

 

[motel rooms]

This question is somehow related to CTB, asking yourself, what do you want for yourself, to be born again, perhaps in other circumstances? Or simply to cease to exist?

For me, I would choose either one, both seem fine to me

It's cute that you think you have a choice in the matter

 

[Under The Graveyard]

If I could be reborn the same person, but under different circumstances, I would. Other than that, I'd rather cease to exist.

 

[MountKecske]

I'm a most militant atheist, not being able to comprehend how Richard Dawkins ended up calling himself agnostic so the best case scenario when I feel desperate is to imagine we're living in a simulation and everyone has their own personal god(mine would be Andrea Dworkin) and when you die you get to be the messiah of your own religion and start your own cult like Klaus on The Umbrella Academy :D

 

[noname223]

Cease to exist. Living can be so dangerous all these horrible things can happen...

 

[MountKecske]

Then you would only die if the computer you're in the hard drive of gets broken otherwise you would be repurposed as other data and could always end up as another sim on the alien teen's computer who doesn't share your own failures and consequences.

 

[motel rooms]

the messiah of your own religion

 

[At_The_End]

When talking w/ my mentor and dear friend, he stated he was interested to see what death was like. He went to his death excited and interested in what the next phase would bring. He taught me not to be afraid of death and that no person can truly being to live life until they come to grips w/ death. Blessed to have him in my life when I did. To say Im excited about death would not be totally accurate...but to say I'm very interested to see what it brings, would be true..

 

[SelmaJezkova10]

I would be born again, the world sucks, but there are also some enjoyable things.

 

[it's_all_a_game]

I'd be reborn as a diffrent person, in a different decade. I hate being me, in this time period, right now.

 

[Busticket]

I'd like to be born the same person but not be bond to the same mistakes, that would be nice.

Exactly this.
I would never want to be someone else.
Being born again but with the knowledge about mistakes I have made that I have now would be sweet.

 

[whywere]

I have always said that I was put on the wrong planet period. I am NO BETTER than anyone, heck I am a mental mess, BUT, BUT I have always tried, unless I get smacked in the face, verbally or physically, to try and be nice and look out for other folks. I have in my 65 years on this rock been crapped on by so, so many narrow-minded, greedy, self-centered people that I get sick thinking of it. My "parents" were ULTRA abusive till I was 18 and got kicked out. After that through the decades I have seen most anything and everything that humans can do to one another and it is sickening to say the least. I would love to be reborn somewhere else. Please NO zingers, I have had enough of the few mean people on here. Thank You!! Walter

 

[Hurt]

I want eternal darkness

 

[DoodleBug]

I most certainly DONT want to be reborn as the same person I am now. If i were to be reborn, I'd like to be someone stronger and with more capacity to handle responsibility, because life can be radiant and beautiful despite its harshness, although I never could appreciate moments because of the ever-present implications of impending doom. I cant Imagine myself in a scenario where I make peace with existence itself, so, all in all, I'd still much rather choose the ultimate void of nothingness.

 

[Largeletters]

I am going to be so pissed if I'm born again.

 

[Dear Agony]

Cease to exist. I don't like the world and how things are. Being born again would go against all my ideals. I don't want another life, I'm fed up with not only my life but the world too.

 

[dreamlessnight]

Rolling a new life sounds interesting, assuming the first one carries over as the same DNA, family or beliefs. Things were written off for me years ago, so unless the next life puts me somewhere else, we're in for a second round of misery. Cease to exist then, there's no need to see years crumble a second time.

 

[ReadyForIt]

I'd like to be born again, either as myself without making the same mistakes, or as another person in better circumstances.

 

[Bauhaus]

I want to be reborn without the genetic defect(s)....

 

[motel rooms]

Since it's a scientific fact that this universe makes all of our wishes come true, I've decided to be reborn as an immortal sex god who has the power to seduce any man he wants & can have 5 orgasms per hour

 

[lofticries]

Cease to exist. Can't stand this world. Like legit I want off this ride not another ticket back.

omg what if i get reborn into a prolifer. *screams*

 

[Passersby]

The whole point of my CTB would be to not exist and end the suffering. If such a scenario existed where I would be forced to come back and relive it all over again I would be very mad. There's no way I would go all through school, etc, and do all of this over again. In that case I would be forced to CTB a second time. If I kept coming back then would just have to keep dying again and again continuing the cycle. Sure I guess if I could create my own heaven consisting of never ending euphoria maybe I would go there for a while.

 

[ExistentialEntropy]

In my belief we come back but not in the way people usually imagine. I view consciousness as the infinite mind of God which every being is a small part of. Like characters in the dream of god's mind. When we die the consciousness that is precipitated through our body mind returns to the infinite sea of awareness. Parts of it may converge to reappear elsewhere in the world, other parts may go elsewhere. Like a whirlpool in a river that vanishes and rejoins the current. It is still there but not in the same way.

 

[OpheliasFlowers]

I'd prefer to cease to exist... but if I had a choice in the matter AND was given the ability to decide the circumstances of my being reborn which I would INSIST on: being 100% (or at least 98-99%) healthy and strong with only minor, transient, common health problems like the occasional flu or whatever AND *NO* anxiety/depression/any other m. i. AND I had at least a couple advantages next go around that I didn't have this time like a healthy family dynamic, actual friends and possibly even a talent or natural aptitude for SOMETHING, then and only then would I choose to reincarnate. I don't want or need a fancy, rich, entitled, 'perfect' life but I'd sure like one where I wasn't sick and suffering every single damn day and I could be completely independent and have at least a couple fulfilling aspects to my existence - a job, an income, a friend and family support system, etc - then dealing with all the other shit in the world and that comes with just being a living human on this earth *MIGHT* actually be worth it. Otherwise...just no. Just let me be nothing, or be part of the collective consciousness of the cosmos/nature. I'd NEVER want to be 'me' again.