• Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink
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    A LOT more suicide cases probably

    That and an increase in size for religions that believe in reincarnation, as well as people probably treating animals kinder or maybe even believing they’ve found a dead family member in a pet

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      A LOT more suicide cases probably

      Lots of people constantly rerolling, waiting to get born into a rich family before committing to a full round of life.

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        This might depend on what else we know about it. Or don’t know. We know that reincarnation is real, but do we understand the “rules”?

        Most reincarnation beliefs include some sort of points system for how you come back. For example, Good people come back better, and bad people become slugs. If it can be confirmed that suicide gets you demoted, there might not be people doing it.

        Or, after enough people start rerolling, an official government agency “confirms” it just so they don’t lose their working class.

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      That and an increase in size for religions that believe in reincarnation […]

      Would reincarnation alone still really be a religious element at that point, given that it may just be a natural phenomena?

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        Well in theory all of the religious elements are not religious elements. We just haven’t demonstrated them to our satisfaction. (which I suppose is the line between bullshit and not-bullshit right there)

        Like, if we forgot how to make particle accelerators And the only talk of quarks and leptons was in religious mythology.

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        More of a natural phenomena, but if they were right about that and others were wrong about heaven/afterlife then some people would trust those religions and distrust the others