Japanese folklore says a tool that reaches 100 years wakes up. Gets a soul. Gets angry if thrown away. They're called tsukumogami. A 500-year-old story, the Tsukumogami-ki. Before New Year, people throw out old tools. The tools remember. They plot. …
Reincarnation in the Hindu sense needs an atman, a permanent self that changes bodies like clothes. Buddhism denies exactly that. No soul, no essence, nothing that keeps its identity through the trip. So rebirth happens with nobody making the journey. …
At first it's your friends and family. Then they're gone too. Maybe your name survives in some photo album, an old email account, a forgotten hard drive. Eventually even those disappear. For almost everyone who has ever lived, there was …
Average lifespan doubled in a century. The maximum moved by nothing. Two different numbers. Almost everybody confuses them, including doctors. 🧊 Cells accumulate damage in the womb. Copying errors, broken repair, mutations inherited from both parents. Birth is not the …