The meta aspects of vintologi

Leucosticte

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What is your role, @adolf512 ; most of those who bring forth a religion will say, "God gave me these golden plates and then took them back" or "Jesus taught me in the desert." https://biblehub.com/kjv/galatians/1.htm

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
What's the origin story of vintologi? "Evolution molded me to be smart enough to come up with this manifesto, and you can see for yourself from the references that I'm not full of shit about what I say"? What about the reincarnation aspects that might be harder to prove?
 

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It's impossible to properly explain why you are having a conscious experience now in your current body (rather than some other body) without invoking some form of reincarnation, then your current life will just be a continuation of a previous life you experienced via some other body/brain.

Given reincarnation (of some form) it become possible to properly answer philosophical questions since we can simply evaluate how actions now will affect upcoming lives, this leads to conclusions most people are uncomfortable with and might explain why people prefer to just discard reincarnation as a possibility.
 

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It's impossible to properly explain why you are having a conscious experience now in your current body (rather than some other body) without invoking some form of reincarnation, then your current life will just be a continuation of a previous life you experienced via some other body/brain.

Given reincarnation (of some form) it become possible to properly answer philosophical questions since we can simply evaluate how actions now will affect upcoming lives, this leads to conclusions most people are uncomfortable with and might explain why people prefer to just discard reincarnation as a possibility.
It could also be that no one has explained the mechanics of how reincarnation works in a convincing way. Gravity's mechanics aren't explained either, but we have to accept it because a ball thrown in the air comes back down; it's harder to prove that reincarnation happens.
 
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