Discussion Does the concept of reincarnation both terrify and comfort anyone else?

[KTbear]

Only the terrify part. Like if it turns out to be true I am terrified of having to go though life again and again. Just let me be done when I'm done, please. Once was more than I wanted in the first place.

 

[Snake of Eden]

No it doesnt terrify me because it is fictional concept

 

[KTbear]

Coming back here will suck, but it is a necessary evil. I believe that this world is a lesson ground, and we are sentenced to keep returning here until the conditions have been met for our release/ advancement to the next stage of existence.

I hope with all my heart that this isn't true. Just seems cruel, but not as cruel as Christianity. Isn't there some religion that just let's you die with no worry of Hell or having to endlessly repeat countless lives of suffering?

 

[Remember-Me-Not]

Trying to logically explain what happens to my consciousness after death always give me that anxiety existential dread. Because for me, I have this thought that we only know we lose consciousness because we regain it later on (i.e. I never notice myself falling asleep or don't remember when I do).

If we die... what is at the end of it? So it kind of reassures me when I believe in reincarnation. I hope I get to keep my memories. It would be like having an advantage.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

No thanks! Not this life at least

 

[lonerclown666]

I am afraid to reincarnate in some animal or insect as punishment

 

[Eternal Oblivion]

It doesn't scare me, because reincarnation doesnt even make any sense.

What pains me is to know that we live only one life and that's it.

 

[Death_of_a_Phynixx]

The thought of me reincarnating to this specific realm we call the 3rd dimension or Earth is absolutely terrifying to me! Earth was and still is not the realm that I belong in. When I was a child and my conscious mind started to develop, I can remember looking around and saying "I made a mistake". I truly felt this within my entire being then, and I still feel this way now. My memories of how I even got here are null and it scares me. I truly feel in my heart that I was supposed to incarnate somewhere else, like within higher dimensions. My feelings are that I originated from higher dimensions far from this realm, hence my feeling alone, too different, and too advanced for this asleep and zombified 3rd dimension. When I depart from this plane, I do not desire to come back here to Earth. Earth is not my home. Earth is a phony place filled with phony belief systems, and the few of us that are aware of this have been separated from one another to break us mentally and spiritually! If I must reincarnate, I just want to go back to my home realm, but I just cannot remember where HOME is. I have lost myself in this 3rd dimension, and this is also terrifying. I want to go home!

 

[TerminalConscience]

Reincarnation makes me feel like I'm a prisoner.

 

[lonleycrowdedwest]

Me too. I've had nightmares wheee I keep waking up in another dream and can't wake up for real. It feels like that

Reincarnation makes me feel like I'm a prisoner.

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