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I wouldn't call it support or comfort but I often think if there was reincarnation then everyone must eventually live every life, so those who are killing will also be the killed, we will all end up living the lives of those we despise too, and that would be fair.
Also I think about just how little we can perceive of the world and universe, we have techniques and senses to see this pinhole view, and mostly trust it, but it's so much bigger and more complex than we can imagine or perceive.
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It's a nice pat way of thinking of things, but it presupposes some sort of justice or built-in meaning to the universe, when the real truth is that there is no inherent meaning to any of it. Meaning is an emergent property that evolves with the development of sapience.
I don't believe it, really, just consider it whenever people talk about past lives. Just seems like either we are individual and a blip in time (acceptable to me) or we are a collective and cannot tell with our separate bodies and senses, we are all one happening. We evolved here on earth, many systems here have a distributed existence, intelligence, consciousness, whatever it is. I have had enough weird shit happen to me to question whether our current working model is correct. But don't have the "gift of faith" at all, can't really draw conclusions from my experiences.
That's one opinion, certainly. I completely disagree that there's no inherent meaning to anything, I think there absolutely is.