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1THRILLHOUSE t1_j1syauj wrote

It depends on how you behave in life as to what you come back as. Maybe an ant, a dung beetle, a single celled organism, a blade of grass.

Potentially a life form from a different planet.

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deep_sea2 t1_j1syurc wrote

I don't believe, but the answer could be that we don't know how many living "souls" exist in the universe. Maybe our population growth coincides with the population decline of the planet Xanadu.

Also, how long does it take for souls to transfer? Maybe there is a waiting room with billions upon billion of souls waiting for a body. As our population increase, may those waiting in the waiting room are getting fewer and fewer.

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1THRILLHOUSE t1_j1sz02f wrote

Replying to paradisemoses (#1,086,055)

Given the deforestation, fields becoming concrete, biodiversity dying off Id imagine not although I don’t know that for a fact.

Id say farm animals and pets have increased but what else would have?

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arcosapphire t1_j1sz6bj wrote

Although I don't believe it, why not adopt the "one soul" point of view? One entity loops through time and experiences everything.

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Bad_Mad_Man t1_j1szo3x wrote

Are souls bound by the constraints of linear time? Maybe we’re all the same person being reborn in parallel with ourselves.

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I_love_hate_reddit t1_j1szp6a wrote

Biodiversity is decreasing. Species's are dying out. They're being reincarnated as lower life forms...... humans

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presidentofjackshit t1_j1t088h wrote

I don't believe in reincarnation, but it doesn't really mean that the human population is just constantly the same. Human life increasing in one part of the world may mean animal/fish population decreasing in another. Some bug might become some dude.

That said, lots of cultures and religions have varying views on reincarnation and/or rebirth, so the explanations can vary.

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urbanek2525 t1_j1t0ca2 wrote

Why in the world would you try to apply reason to a religious belief?

There are no religions that stand up to even the most cursory application of reason.

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Right_Two_5737 t1_j1t1l40 wrote

I knew someone who believed in reincarnation. She believed she was an old soul, reincarnated many times because she kept messing up. Which means there must be new souls too.

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NatashOverWorld t1_j1t1xsb wrote

Quality. In the Iron Age, which we have just exited but its not yet the next Golden Age, the quality of rhe human soul is poorer.

Also, reincarnation takes into account animals, extra terrestrials and other dimensional beings.

The conservation of souls is not one to one.

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Strange_Distance_779 t1_j1t53rz wrote

coz there are plenty of species who's population is decreasing, increasing and that has nothing to do with incarnation........ We have made earth such a facilitative planet for humans in every way, meanwhile some species completely lost their habitats, white rhinos just last week went extinct if you have read......

I don't know if i strongly believe in incarnation or not but, hinduism stats that, just like a drop of water gets splashed and separated from ocean for a while, our souls are the same.

We have departed from the "brahman", the single eternal consciousness like ocean of water, and our souls are on a journey to find its way back, it will keep taking birth on planet untill we figure out how to merge with the brahman. Heaven and hell are the same place we live in, we chose what to make out of it.

There are ways given in the sacred texts. Which honestly just teachings to lead a life that in an ideal heaven will be.

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urbanek2525 t1_j1t97af wrote

Replying to paradisemoses (#1,086,313)

True.

So, my ELI5 answer is, many reincarnation religions hold that you won't always be reborn as a hunan. So the explanation could be that the increase in human population is an indicator of the continual improvement of the souls as they become humans.

It could also be an indicator of fewer and fewer people reaching Nirvana and ending the reincarnation cycle.

It just comes down to what do you want to believe? In truth, if you want to belive in reincarnation, in one form of another, just make up whatever explanation satisfies your intellectuals needs.

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