Would You Want a Return Visit?

[Wizard of Whatever]

Anyone who wishes to repeat the experience of this life, world, universe, space, place, or time is terminally insane.

 

[TheVat]

I need to read Ballard - you're the second person to mention him to me in the space of a few weeks. And swerving back to topic, I have wondered if there were inflection points in one's life where people would want to roll the tape back to, porting the wisdom of a lifetime back to that moment. As it is, all we feel we can do is look back occasionally and think man was I young and stupid! Usually mixed with a yearning for youth and innocence and a simpler worldview. It would be interesting to have a do-over where one loses all the memories of the later life, except for one crucial piece of information, planted as a kind of unsourced intuition.

And last week I discover there is a British novelist, Kate Atkinson, who basically takes that do-over with unsourced intuition idea and runs with it.

Life After Life (novel) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also a BBC miniseries.

 

[davewhite04]

Reincarnation, would you want to do it again? If you could, and if you had a choice, which next life would you want to live? Suppose you could model your fortunes and failures for the return visit. Perhaps you would come back as an animal or some other form of life, something not of this world?

Myself, I wouldn't mind repeating this life, but with insight into where I could do better. All things considered, it's been a good life. I could do it again.

Nope, last time for me.

I have learnt enough... mind that might well change when I'm thinking crystal clear when I leave Dave, the human that has housed me for 50 years. This is why you should try and love yourself, humans are special, we're not nothing in a universe that is so massive as some of these scientists, more specifically astrophysicists say.