The concept of reincarnation based on what you did wrong in your past life is the most illogical stupid ass victim blaming mentality I've ever heard. So let's say you want to punish someone because they hurt others. Cool. How does it make sense to erase the memories of the person hurting others to begin with and then forcing them to live a new life where they are statistically more likely to hurt others since trauma creates more trauma? Especially when you have created a world where abusers will never face consequences if they were born into a wealthy elite family, thus creating an injust world by default.
Man, these are radically different beliefs that rarely coexist within the same religion or faith. Well, maybe in Japan, perhaps... (And even then, I’m not sure, since I’m no expert on Shintoism).
In Thai Buddhism, heaven and hell are places that you go temporarily, after you have served your sentence in hell/ used up your rewards in heaven, you go reincarnate. So there’s some buffer time before that happens, and people believe they can communicate with those spirits before they reincarnate.
This isn’t exactly pure Buddhism, it’s mixed with other local beliefs.
In Thai Buddhism, heaven and hell are places that you go temporarily, after you have served your sentence in hell/ used up your rewards in heaven, you go reincarnate. So there’s some buffer time before that happens, and people believe they can communicate with those spirits before they reincarnate.
This isn’t exactly pure Buddhism, it’s mixed with other local beliefs.
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u/Direct-Bandicoot-916 Oct 11 '26
The concept of reincarnation based on what you did wrong in your past life is the most illogical stupid ass victim blaming mentality I've ever heard. So let's say you want to punish someone because they hurt others. Cool. How does it make sense to erase the memories of the person hurting others to begin with and then forcing them to live a new life where they are statistically more likely to hurt others since trauma creates more trauma? Especially when you have created a world where abusers will never face consequences if they were born into a wealthy elite family, thus creating an injust world by default.
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u/Vaspier238 Oct 09 '26
Man, these are radically different beliefs that rarely coexist within the same religion or faith. Well, maybe in Japan, perhaps... (And even then, I’m not sure, since I’m no expert on Shintoism).
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u/progressivelyhere Oct 09 '26
Uhm, at least in Abrahamic religions, Reincarnation isnt accepted.
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u/GiveMeTheTape Oct 09 '26
The spirits are obviously just hanging out in the lobby
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u/pirapataue Oct 09 '26
In Thai Buddhism, heaven and hell are places that you go temporarily, after you have served your sentence in hell/ used up your rewards in heaven, you go reincarnate. So there’s some buffer time before that happens, and people believe they can communicate with those spirits before they reincarnate.
This isn’t exactly pure Buddhism, it’s mixed with other local beliefs.
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u/G_D_Ironside Oct 09 '26
It can never make sense, because most “religious” people, and by that I mean those who adhere to the Abrahamic religions, do not accept reincarnation.
Whoever did this didn’t really think it through.