I started thinking that it’s crazy that those who do believe in reincarnation always seem to think they are gonna end up back here on Earth. If that shit was real, it would have to be a part of the laws governing the entire universe. Maybe it is real, but nobody on Earth has ever reincarnated back to Earth. They became an alien on another planet trillions of lightyears away.
I tried writing a short story where a guy OD’s on a bottle of sleeping pills. As he lies there dying he meets a ghost who encourages him to fight it long enough so his sister can find him and take him to the ER. The ghost is obviously not human, and the guy remarks on it and the ghost says “What you didn’t think aliens were a thing?”
If this were the case, what if your soul also had to adhere to the speed of light on its way to reincarnation. So iw you were reincarnated into a creature 1000 LY away, it wouldn’t happen for 1000 years.
We manage to preserve messages between reincarnations.
Gets studied to bits by science. Someone develops FTL communication by giving someone a message, offing them and them delivering the message at the new place.
Except that there are a ton of potential places to reincarnate at. So every message needs massive redundancy to properly deliver
I started thinking that it’s crazy that those who do believe in reincarnation always seem to think they are gonna end up back here on Earth. If that shit was real, it would have to be a part of the laws governing the entire universe. Maybe it is real, but nobody on Earth has ever reincarnated back to Earth. They became an alien on another planet trillions of lightyears away.
I tried writing a short story where a guy OD’s on a bottle of sleeping pills. As he lies there dying he meets a ghost who encourages him to fight it long enough so his sister can find him and take him to the ER. The ghost is obviously not human, and the guy remarks on it and the ghost says “What you didn’t think aliens were a thing?”
That sounds like an improvement.
Depends on the planet.
If you think fascist are an Earth-only thing, then I want you to meet my good friend “statistics”
I’ve met plenty of humans. My expectations are pretty low. Good chance I won’t even be burdened with sentients.
If this were the case, what if your soul also had to adhere to the speed of light on its way to reincarnation. So iw you were reincarnated into a creature 1000 LY away, it wouldn’t happen for 1000 years.
imagine it’s FTL.
We manage to preserve messages between reincarnations.
Gets studied to bits by science. Someone develops FTL communication by giving someone a message, offing them and them delivering the message at the new place.
Except that there are a ton of potential places to reincarnate at. So every message needs massive redundancy to properly deliver
reincarnation based FTL communication
Gotta kill 10,000 people just to get a message to one place.
What is this, Warhammer 40k?
What if it didn’t and the spiritual space your soul inhabits between bodies is discovered and exploited as a means for faster than light travel.
So you’d have a non zero chance of being run over by a starship on your way to your next corporeal form
What happens if you die in transit? Could you? 🤣
Now we got a book idea. 😃