Robyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoWhat if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway?message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down110
arrow-up185arrow-down1message-squareWhat if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway?Robyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 14 hours agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·13 hours agoIt’s not just about manipulating people into being good. It also gives great comfort to everyone who believes because if anything bad happens to someone, it’s because they deserved it.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-212 hours agoSo I deserved my back injury and subsequent 7-stitch wound upon returning to work? Perhaps I’m just a bad construction worker in this life. It’s like a trope that people coming off of long medical leave in the construction field will injure themselves in the first week. I’m a meme.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 hours agoIf you believe in karma/reincarnation then it’s your fault!
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·13 hours agoOh yeah, it (again, with all religions) gives people licence to be cunts
It’s not just about manipulating people into being good. It also gives great comfort to everyone who believes because if anything bad happens to someone, it’s because they deserved it.
So I deserved my back injury and subsequent 7-stitch wound upon returning to work? Perhaps I’m just a bad construction worker in this life.
It’s like a trope that people coming off of long medical leave in the construction field will injure themselves in the first week. I’m a meme.
If you believe in karma/reincarnation then it’s your fault!
woah
Oh yeah, it (again, with all religions) gives people licence to be cunts