[Livia]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

Really confuses me that our species has this desire to hang on to some childish notions of life, consciousness, and the "soul".

People who do this actually limit their window to the real beauty of existence. People can believe what they like but recycling existence over and again? How does it follow that people often have similar personality traits to their parents, who have similar personality traits to their parents, and back in a human regression?

How far back did this start happening? Do other apes also have this recycling personality thing going on? Is it all life, or are we humans really that special?

I don't think it's any sillier a notion than the premise that something as complex and perfect a creation as a human being has one short burst of life with no purpose. None of us know for sure until we actually die, so all the idea about what happens when we shuffle off this mortal coil are both possible and impossible.