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in an ethical context, it doesnt matter if reincarnation (or eternal return, which is nietzsche's transposition of the idea) happens in fact or not--it can be seen just as easily as a regulative idea. like most regulative ideas. reincarnation/karma (which seem linked to me) is about retribution, but it requires no dad-like god person to carry it out. you do it to yourselves.
if an ethical system is built around regulative notions, it seems to me irrelevant whether they are testable or not.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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