Ask Lemmy

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I think that is really reassuring

What does that mean? This is one of the most logically true discussions of spirituality I am familiar with. It takes no position on what that condition might be, but addresses the issue in an almost circular reference.

Those who believe we come from nothing cannot argue that somehow, by having lived, we will go on to be something afterwards, per the First Law of Thermodynamics.

Those who believe we have a ‘soul’, something other than our physical bodies, that goes on after we die, admit that we had to have had a soul prior to birth.

And those that believe we are on a wheel, going through life again and again, understand that we are what we always have been, and will continue to be, when we’re not busy living our lives.

https://philosiblog.com/2011/12/05/after-your-death-you-will-be-what-you-were-before-your-birth/

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SPYxFAMILY Season 3 just started. :)

It's a spy anime with this kid who is as adorable as she is dumb. And we love it. It's more of a comedy than anything, I think. Kids like it because the adorable little four-year-old saves the day, adults love it because the dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks four-year-old makes adorable faces. We all win.

!upliftingnews@lemmy.world and !wholesome@reddthat.com exist and I think that's beautiful.

A few somewhat recent ones of different magnitudes:

• Cancer, despite still being the leading cause of deaths worldwide, is seeing a downward trend in mortality rates across most subtypes
• The 2025 Nobel Prizes are currently being awarded
• The Greek Parthenon recently became scaffold free for the first time in 15 years, apparently restoration is using all original pieces as well
• EU has fairly recently revised the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive which will require new buildings to have zero-emission

In the grand scheme this is all fleeting. Humanity is fleeting. The earth will continue, it will heal, trees will eventually take over. The earth has patience, more than we can comprehend. Long after we're gone it will still be here, it will be green and lush and vibrant, life will be abundant again, and we will be little more than a few ancient scars on it.

That personally brings me peace. No matter how dark things get it's nothing on the immense scale that is out planets lifetime. 5 years? 10? 20? 100? 1000? It's nothing to the earth. Humanity's <10,000 years means nothing to the planet in the scale of millions of years. Even climate change, the effects to us will be horrendous, but to the earth it will keep happily spinning, and it will get over it and correct itself.

I’m having goulash this evening, and the next couple of weeks. The world could go up in flames and hell freeze over and I wouldn’t care.

History always repeats itself.

Things get bad, then they get REALLY bad, then usually violence solves it and things get good again.

I believe historically we are still at the most peaceful time in a global scale. Doesn’t mean things aren’t bad or getting worse, but I guess we’ve got that going for us?

"Nothing lasts forever."