• qantravon@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        My entire adulthood has consisted of one unprecedented once-in-a-lifetime event after another, and on occasion the same kind nearly back-to-back. This won’t be the last.

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          1 year ago

          Do you believe in karma?

          Edit: LOL I meant to say “reincarnation” as a joke for the “once in a lifetime event” as in they’ve had several lifetimes already and they just don’t remember it happening.

          • qantravon@lemmy.world
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            I’m not talking about things that have happened to me specifically, rather events broadly across the Earth that should be rare happening on a more and more frequent basis.

            I don’t believe in karma as some kind of cosmic balancing force, but I do believe a lot of it is the consequences of our actions a-la climate change.

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        At the risk of being too morbid, it definitely is once in a lifetime, for the people who died from the fire.