No choice of as who ( would be human though) or where etc ... but it would be an instant start after croaking , what would be your reply ? The other option would be no further existence. Strange question you may think and it popped up in my head this morning for no reason ,so thought I'd ask .
I think my answer would depend on how I was feeling. As a long time depression sufferer my normal answer would be NO but recently , feeling quite good , it could be different.
Some people believe this already happens of course. 🙂
It's a no from me, but presumably you'd have no consciousness of your previous existence anyway? So you wouldn't know, which is the same as, it doesn't matter...
Would you be aware of the previous life? If not the question is irrelevant. There will be more lives every second no matter what your decision.
The question is not irrelevant as it's asking about your experience of this life and whether it's been such that you'd risk doing it again for certain .
The rules were that you wouldn't know about your previous life.
I personally think it's more likely we'll live again than not anyhow ...far more likely than heaven and hell etc . I am of buddhist leaning but could never understand if you generated bad karma and were born again as a rat for example ..how you could generate good karma in that life to work your way back up!
how you could generate good karma in that life to work your way back up!
You become a chef it's just as like likely as being born again.
Some rats lead very useful lives eg scientific experiments, sniffing out landmines, detecting diseases such as TB. That'll generate good karma, surely?
good answer Esme! maybe I should change it to a fly or a slug.
Some flies lead very useful lives eg Drosophila (fruit flies) in genetic research 😉
And some slugs lead very useful lives eg clearing rotting vegetation, valuable source of food for toads, slow-worms, beetles and birds.
The question is not irrelevant as it’s asking about your experience of this life and whether it’s been such that you’d risk doing it again for certain .
Irrelevant because if you had no knowledge of former self the new life is no different to any other. If you make the decision NO, then how do you stop every other new life?
Yes.
Due to take the five year old and 10 month old granddaughters swimming shortly.
That makes me so happy that despite some very grim times, the chance of doing something as simple as that means a definite yes.
On the whole, it's been a privilege.
Some say it's where dajavu comes from .
deffo.
i have had a quite tough life, but have enjoyed pretty much all of it. i cant think of any really bad experiences that make me sad.
Irrelevant because if you had no knowledge of former self the new life is no different to any other. If you make the decision NO, then how do you stop every other new life?
you seem to miss the point ..there's no stopping of other lives ..it's just that YOU ( whatever that is ) would never experience life again so I'm really asking about from your experience of the life you currently live, would you prefer to be conscious again in another life or never have consciousness again...Or maybe it's me that doesn't understand!
Absolutely yes.
No. Switch me off please.
edit- based on my experience in this world in its current state.
<div class="bbp-topic-title">If you were given the choice at the end of life if you want to live another life</div>
<div>No thanks.</div>
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<div>It would just be another version of this one wouldn’t it. Therefore have the same issues and general social/political problems we have now.</div>
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<div>Just live this one, like it’s your last. Because it really is your last one.</div>
Yeh, reckon I would go for it again. Discovering new places and experiences has mostly been good
Yes. Hopefully I would be wiser and make a better fist of it.
Quality of life is important. Being born in the UK at this time is winning the lottery of life vs. being born in some impoverished part of the world. Though humans have never had it any better than now and things are improving more quickly than ever for more and more humans on the planet, billions of humans still live horrendous lives and pretty shitty lives. So if I was going to come back as one of those living the shitty lives then probably best not to be reincarnated only to live a horrendous life and ultimately die in an unpleasant way.
Also thankfully through my life I've made more good decisions than bad ones (just as much though luck than judgement), but it could have easily been different, a lot of people I was at school with who had very similar backgrounds to me with all the same opportunities and prospects are in very different places to me 30 years on i.e. alot worse...the only difference being they made different decisions through the course of their life, choices I could very easily have made myself meaning my life could easily have gone in a very different direction. So even if you are born into a nice environment with everything going for you, it is alot easier to screw things up and have a shitty life than keep it all together and end up having a good life. There are no guarantees and you ultimately make the life for yourself off your own back irrespective of the opportunities presented to you...opportunities are only useful if you take them...alot of people don't. SO if I was reincarnated I'd also want the same personality traits that meant I made similarly good quality decisions through the course of my life.
One thing is for sure...right now is the best time to be alive despite all the doom and gloom you get in the media...they don't tend to report on the good stuff only the bad - so the world they paint is not representative. And the trajectory for the improvement of life for more and more people on the planet is going stratospheric, so life is getting better for billion of people every year. Some people seemed determined to spread the myth humans are some sort of virus, and the world is going to shit in a hand cart, but they're wrong and all the stat's and numbers, no matter how you cut them don't support that view. So if you were reborn again, then the chances are overwhelmingly in your favour of a better life compared to the time you were actually born.
No thanks.
I certainly would prefer not to have to go through my formative years as an adult again, however to not answer the OP’s question, I would certainly like to carry on living from this point in my emotional and personal development so long as I can keep my physical abilities.
Life is a sine wave, ups and downs and everything in between, that’s all part of the human condition. To not experience the sine wave, don’t be a human being!
If you were given the choice at the end of life if you want to live another life
You should ask to clarify the life you will be given. Go for the one that comes with peace of mind and the one that will lead you to the right path. I don't think you have choice of saying No because that is reserved for those that have exhausted their karma.
If you are not going to take rebirth again you will know.
I personally think it’s more likely we’ll live again than not anyhow …far more likely than heaven and hell etc . I am of buddhist leaning but could never understand if you generated bad karma and were born again as a rat for example ..
The chances of being reborn as human immediately is very slim. The reason we are all born is due to our karma. Karma is the reason we are born. Without karma or when all our karma is exhausted then there will be no more rebirth.
how you could generate good karma in that life to work your way back up
You generate good karma by cultivating your present life slowly over many future lives. One at a time and slowly building up those good "genes". When you build up these good "genes" you will naturally gravitate towards the path. However, on the path to generate these good "genes" as a beginner you will encounter plenty of hurdles and may be distracted or even increase the accumulation of the wrong or bad "genes" as you continues ... so you start all over again, again and again until you reach a certain level where you will never be distracted.
Some say it’s where dajavu comes from .
I knew you would say that.
No, I didn't choose this one and I definitely wouldn't choose another.
and whether it’s been such that you’d risk doing it again for certain
No chance, for no other reason than I wouldn't want to risk coming back as a roadie!
That's a very spiritual question for a dreich Sunday morning. It's a question that's popped into my head a few times, especially when experiencing some sort of grief.
The Dhammapada and The Teaching of Buddha, like all scriptures, is a collection of fables as a way of explanation as to the reasons why things are.
"My deciples, my last moment has come, but do not forget that death is only the vanishing of the physical body. The body was born from parents and was nourished by food; just as inevitable are sickness and death.
But the true Buddha is not a human body :- it is Enlightenment. A human body must vanish, but the Wisdom of Enlightenment will exist forever in the truth"
Not bad for a 4BC scientific description. My interpretation is that energy is always converting and that your soul lives on in the memories of others, therefore you're more likely to be remembered either because you were extremely kind or an absolute jerk
...if you generated bad karma and were born again as a rat for example ..how you could generate good karma in that life to work your way back up!
You let it be. i.e. you let the karma exhaust itself no matter how many times you will be a rat. Nothing you can do about it.
Plenty of good points wobbliscott but ....
Quality of life is important. Being born in the UK at this time is winning the lottery of life vs. being born in some impoverished part of the world.
Have you noticed that even in some of the improvised part of the world there will always be some better off than the others? A person can be improvised even when they are born in the best part of the world.
I'd say yes and hope i could come back as a pedantic smart arse and spends vast swathes of my free time on an internet chat forum.
pedantic smartarse
It's "impoverished" chewkw.
/pedantic smartarse
I'm not sure what it is the OP is asking as you seem to contradict yourself in your second post..you say that based on our experiences of this life would we want to come back again ..to which I would answer yes .
Then in the very next sentence you say that the rules are that we would not know anything about our previous life..
How can we make a decision based on our experiences of this life if we don't know about it ?
If I could come back as a different gender, I’d be interested.
I’m not sure what it is the OP is asking.
what's the meaning of life in a round about way. It's ultimately pointless folly so No
pedantic smartarse
It’s “impoverished” chewkw.
/pedantic smartarse
Too quick to judge?
That was a typo as I forgot to enlarge the page font while typing. Eyesight not very good and need new reading glasses.
If I could come back as a different gender, I’d be interested.
That depends on who you are now and in your previous existences.
So if I was going to come back as one of those living the shitty lives then probably best not to be reincarnated only to live a horrendous life and ultimately die in an unpleasant way.
But still people who live under the worst of circumstances generally prefer life to death.
Regarding the op's question if tou had no knowledge of your previous life wanting another one is irrelevant. But life is continuous anyway, perhaps a better question would be "would you like someone else to have the chance at the kind of life you've had". For me I'd say yes.
No .
I would not. There are too many people around already.
Why would be any better second time round
Its like the delete pill question that came up a few weeks ago . Alot of people admitted , bravely , that they would have taken it if it was an actual thing
Being better the second time around wasn't part of the original question ..
Based on your experience in this life would you want to come back again was..
yes so I can come back as a stw big hitter
Based on my life up until 3 years ago, a definite yes.
Now, a definite, big fat NO.
Depends
Amazes me people say no. Absofigginlutely from me.
I don't really think some of you are getting the concept of nothing, forever more! 😆
Absolutely, to be alive is nothing short of wondrous.
That said if you gave me a button that would eliminate all humans in an instant.... I'd press it.
You want to come back as Kim Jong-Un..?
Strange choice ..
YES! This life's been a blast so far. Maybe the next one I'll would live a poor/miserable life picking over rubbish dumps in India or somesuch but I bet there would still be some great times to be had. Bring it on.
Just to clarify.....having no knowledge of your previous life was related to once the new one ,if chosen,started .when making the decision beforehand ..you would have the experience of your current life to help you decide.hth
Don't think so. By the time I've been through the misery of old age, my body crumbling and becoming even more decrepit than it is now, my memory fading, my eye sight being useless, and all the other joys of the last 20 years of life (bowls ffs!)... I think I'll be glad to have it over with.
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You want to come back as Kim Jong-Un..?
Strange choice ..a
as opposed to eternal nothingness? 😆 yip!