Reincarnation or oblivion? Which would you choose?

[Der_Trihs]

@One_And_Only_Wanderers

Presumably if you go again this is with a clean slate, so you are not ‘you’ in any real sense anyway, how is this different to oblivion?

I agree, and have said so before.

@Der_Trihs

I certainly don’t recall any such lives, and my memories are the most important part of what makes me, me. If you could prove to me that I had a soul with past lives, it would be like proving to me that a particular iron atom in my blood once was part of Alexander the Great; mildly interesting, but that’s all. Reincarnation is functionally equivalent to having no soul at all, in my eyes.