What if we're reincarnating in reverse and the best times are behind us!

All of them.

They put me here to hide me.
I try to help reduce suffering, in small ways. Best I can do at the moment.

Who is they and why are you hiding? :O

Probably intergalactic tax evasion, knowning my luck...that's just what I used to tell my parents when I was a small annoying child, that they were not my parents because, "someone sent me here to hide me".

Odd tantrums. I don't have any skills. Witness protection?
Maybe I just came here to hide from my next dentists appointment.

Since it's already Written, we are actually going backwards.

successful life (success according to one's own standards

See that's what we need to define.

"Success."

What in the world does that mean? Monetary success? George Soros AKA "Schwartz" just made 1 BILLION dollars on a trade against the yen. How much money do you need? Why is one person allowed to do this? Why is this person dedicated to destroying countries?

Well anyhow. I'm on the kill list and I'm okay with that. My time is short here and I'm happy about that. I hope I destined for something better than all this money shit.

You are not annoying now. You are enlightened.

Then I guess it's time we start making the best of it.

You should. :)

And this is where the dinosaurs came from.

"Quality" of living is subjective. I agree, we are less free than we were before and need double household income but look at what tools we have in our disposal! Cars, Computers, phones, Starbucks haha, airplanes, etc... would you trade all this in to only have to be able to support a family on one income? and producing 1/4 of the work now? Maybe.... but maybe not because if we are not advance as a country, we will be overtaken by another that is willing to advance at a faster pace.

But good topic nonetheless.

How many angels can you fit on the head of a pin?

Its a little less esoteric than that. If, in the afterlife, there is no sequential time....then its possible to be reincarnated before you died. Or during your own lifetime. You could conceivably meet yourself if the laws of sequence that govern the mortal world don't apply to the spiritual one.

Assuming reincarnation and the lack of sequential time in the afterlife, the smallest number of souls necessary to populate the entire universe...

...would be one.

Following that idea and speculating shamelessly, we could all be different lives of the same soul. Manifesting in no particular order.

I like you!

I get a great vibe reading your posts

The idea of the next generation having a harder time fixing the world's problems are not new. Look back to antiquity, the golden, silver and bronze ages. Its pretty obvious that the ages are based on atomic weight and we have been in decline since the very beginning...

Thank you! It is entirely subjective but we all know what is wrong. and this existence is wrong! screw the tech I want to live on a small farm giving to the locals. :D

Oh i'm with you on this one but tell that to the younger generation who would cry so bad if you take their xbox and iphones away. Lol

Thank you I'm only here for the good word and enlightenment. :)

haha don't ask me I'm not brave enough to produce kids. :D

That’s exactly how it is and why it’s referred to as ‘the fall of man’.

When we reach rock bottom we start asking these types of questions.

I think the next step is to make efforts to self-realise.

If I knew how to express my thoughts perfectly, I would not have put it down better than you Sonic Dreamer

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Self-realisation is dependent on memory. An experience from the past of something better (higher/more authentic/refined/subtle) is triggered in the consciousness and there is realisation of how we have fallen. This provides the contrast that motivates change from within.

In a sense it's quite true, OP. More lives we have, more 'bad' karma we tend to accrue, at least until we get the picture and start doing something about it.

Maybe if you're a white male than the best is behind you.

Sad but true, lol

It’s much worse than that. Karma is probably settled as we go along but it’s the habits/tendencies that remain with us from birth to birth and so the same bad karma is performed and the habit more ingrained until the intensity of suffering tells that enough is enough. Even then it’s like trying to cure 2000-year heroin addiction.

I quite agree. You can meditate all you like but you can't change your basic personality. It colours all you do. Still,
I'm hopeful that it's not just a case of life's a bitch then you die.


My guru was fond of telling a story of when, as a young yogi, he was charged with guarding the tent containing the sweets for a large celebration. Of course we wandered in and eat himself unconscious! He later became one of the foremost tantric yogis of his generation.

Well, obviously you have no religious beliefs, so it must be bleak.

While I would not have appreciated sitting in an outhouse for hours with intestinal discomfort, I have to say that I have lately been thinking that life was much better before electricity. We might have had shorter life spans etc., but I think the value of every day was much more valuable. I'm so sick of cars, apps, cell phones - agreed I'd definitely like to go back at least before the last two. Life was much better.

My mother has often said - and she watched the moon landing live like most Americans, and made the kids watch it etc. - that the moon was almost more enjoyable before you knew what it was. More mystery....
I can understand that now.

As a Christian I'm not worried about my own destiny, and I know what will happen to the planet, but I do share your enthusiasm for looking at things differently.

Anything that you have added to yourself eventually has to finish and that includes your religious beliefs.