You are everyone that ever existed, and ever will exist: on Open Individualism

this stuff makes me a little scared to be reincarnated into one of those lives of pain and suffering you read about that make you immediately grateful to be who and what you are and where and when you've been born. open individualism means you're not as safe from the suffering of others as you thought. it means you're pretty much bound to experience and live those lives after this one.

but who knows what the average experience is in all time and space... we only know up until now that many of the human lives on this planet have been kinda miserable.

gotta be hopeful that is really good stuff going on out there in the big picture.

i dont wanna have a coal miner life on 10 different planets ;-;

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