Are you strong enough for life?

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I'm curious about what would you do if presented with this scenario.

So in this hypothetical you're given 2 choices, these are assumed to be genuine, whichever one you choose will happen, but you won't have another chance at changing this, ever.

The first choice is: you can make reincarnation real, which means that whenever you die, you will be reincarnated into any other being/living creature, from microorganisms to humans, to extraterrestrial equivalents or superior, at any point in this universe, and you will do so in an unbreakable cycle. The end of the universe here is assumed to be not real, and this cycle of life and death will exist perpetually; chemical reactions will never cease to occur, maybe plateauing at some point where everything is at balance and nothing happens, but then restarting again with another Big Bang or similar phenomenon, continuing the endless cycle.

The second choice is: after you die, your consciousness will dissolve and be transferred into a perpetual dimension, similar to being in limbo. This state of consciousness will make you as if you were having a dream, or just waking up, still able to think but in that state, and always feeling just enough as if you were taking a bath with mildly warm water, forever. Eventually you'll reach a point where any desire for having different "physical" stimuli will cease, and thinking there will become the most meaningful thing you could ever do.

Now you have to make a choice, which one will you choose? And why?
If you need something to think about before doing so, let me remind you that most life even in this planet is a brutal race for survival, not even for humans, but for animals, which you most likely will be reincarnated into most of the time if you choose the first option, statistically speaking (most likely microorganisms). On the other hand, the limbo like dimension would sound boring to most humans, but you can still think to some degree, and any horrible problem you'd have to face otherwise will never exist there.
 
Both options kind of suck.
In option 1 you'll go mad through the sheer number of experiences.
In option 2 you'll go mad from lack of stimuli.
 
I'll take limbo, because I've seen some fucked up nature videos, and I have no desire to be a smaller monkey getting my guts ripped out by a chimpanzee while I'm still alive, plus in a dream state you can't really think too deeply like you can when you're fully conscious at least, so you likely can't be too miserable, even if you are bored.
 
Wouldn't you just forget your past lives if you were reincarnated as a less intelligent species? If you reincarnate as a microorganism with no ability to remember things you would just lose all your memories. The only way you could possibly retain your memories is to reincarnate as a being that is born with the same brain capacity you died with.
 
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In the latter option, would you really be thinking? Eventually in the absence of stimuli or contrast your consciousness will become nothing and you'll be effectively regular-dead; it's only our interaction with the external world which gives rise to thought.

And as for being reincarnated, what would be the point? You wouldn't remember anything, and most species aren't really capable of consciousness. What would you actually be transferring if you were reincarnated? Is this like a samsara deal where you have an intangible spirit that's eternally passed into different bodies?

Either case would ultimately be no different than what we have now. So I guess the first option.
 
The second. I would like nothing more than plenty of time to think alone without stimuli.

Just contemplation of pure mathematical beauty in peace, comfort and quiet. I don't need anything more than that, If I get bored I can just make up more stories in my head which will become increasingly bizarre and abstract without external stimuli.
 
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What does any of this have to do with being strong, because they both seem like faggoty choices.

I opt for the third option where I stomp God's nuts out of his eyes Saint of Killers style as revenge for inventing poison ivy, oak, and sumac. What a fucking asshole. You better keep me alive God, because ten minutes after I die I'm going to piss on your corpse you annoying faggot.
 
Second choice, obviously. Anything else is small brained. If it's a perpetual limbo-state where nothing exists, then your own thoughts constitute as the whole of reality. Behold the infinity of possible realities of all kinds, in which one of them we already all live.
 
As someone who believes ego is a big fucking lie, I have little preference for one choice or the other. We are the universe looking at itself, fucking itself, hating and loving itself, killing and cherishing itself.
 
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