I Don't Think I'll Ever Look at the Future the Same Way Again, Since 2014

[BlakeGood88]

When I first started believing in reincarnation, back in 2008; I always assumed you could only go forward in time and I was fine with that idea. There was nothing at the time that actually scared me about the future. I remember being so obsessed with this docudrama that aired on the Science Channel called "2057". It showed a very Jetsons/Blade Runner esque world and I was over the moon for stuff like that. I was actually (no pun intended) looking forward to what my next life would be like in the late 21st or early 22nd century. Then sometime around 2014, that all changed. I was noticing how our world was getting worse with all this political correctness stuff and the harsh reality that the future could be like the ones shown in a lot of those dystopian films, was starting to slowly come true. It's hard to believe there was a time when this didn't even scare me. I had seen a lot of futuristic sci-fi films, even before 2008-2014 and that stuff never scared me, so even in 2008-2009, I wasn't worried at all. Once this stuff hits our reality and you realize that a lot of these dystopian films had similar stuff in them, it's really jarring and worrying. Since around the time my optimism for the future had completely died; I've been on a crusade to reincarnate into the past. I do not want to go back any further than the 1940s. I couldn't stand living in the 19th century or earlier without electricity or some form of modern tech. It just wouldn't feel right.

To play it safe, I actually wanna do something I'm not sure is even possible; I want the same family again, except this time I don't want to be "me" again. I have gender dysphoria and I think it somehow relates to not having a twin sister. I always think of those twin brother and sister duos in cartoons like Rugrats and Gavity Falls. The latter one makes me wonder how interesting my life could've been if my twin sister existed. I really think I "somehow" made a mistake with this life. Growing up, I've seem to have had issues with gender since I was about 10 years old. I've even liked a lot of girly shows, like The Powerpuff Girls and Sailor Moon. I've dressed up as a girl for Halloween back in 2002 and then again 9 years later and a few more times after that. I've done this like 5 times, even once when I went to see Annabelle at my local theater. I cannot prove that I lost a twin sister, but my grandpa (who died almost 3 years ago) had someone in his family (his mother, I think) who supposedly had a twin of the opposite gender, but they somwhow vanished. Does that mean anything and did that somehow affect me? I do have twin cousins, but they're both girls. I still to this day cannot figure this out and I probably won't, until I die. My mother's sonogram never showed a second baby and there was no miscarriage on the morning of April 14, 1988. So I have no idea what went wrong and why it took me until 2016 (28 years later) to figure this out. I don't want to say I am right about this claim I make, but it seems to be the reason why I've had gender dysphoria, since I was about 10 years old.

So you where born in 1988 wow I remember that year well, made some future predictions back than that actually happened also. some even now in the world around. Now years later I saw lots of my future so no worries there. Why not try and see your future and see if its good for you and if not change it into what you , like . Why not write down what you imagine you will be doing 30 years from now ? anyway liked reading your thing here :-)

[BlakeGood88]

Like I said, I don't think I can be optimistic for the future, anymore. PC culture has ruined us since around 2014-2015 and now with the advent of AI, that's even more worrying. While it's mostly harmless now, I bet in a few decades, it won't be.

I don't know if going back in time is the answer and I don't like how people give less than "discerning" conjectures that it isn't and you're somehow always destined and are (supposed) to go "forward" and I don't like it at all. It would be a very different story if all this PC culture was finally dying out, but it's not. I understand AI is essential and it's needed for technology to move forward, but the dangers it will have in a few decades is scary! It's almost next to impossible to convince me to go back to believing in reincarnation the same way I believed in it back when I was in my early-mid 20s. I've gotten older and technology has changed since the early 2010s. I can't look at the outlook of the future, in a positive light, anymore. That's been ruined for me for quite some time, now!

A lot of people seem to dismiss the fact that The Simpsons have predicted a lot of things and got them right, yet there are skepticals out there that dismiss those correct predictions as "coincidences" and I have to disagree. I mean sure, if it was only one time, then maybe. But they've gotten over a dozen predictions right and the show has been running for almost 35 years and that's practically my entire lifespan. I don't know how that could only be a "coincidence". Maybe Matt Groening is a time traveler himself or maybe all the writers (old and new) are somehow psyhics?

I get it but I just live in my own world and there its all just fine , been doing it for years , so it works. I let much that happens pass by me . as in feeling not involved

[BlakeGood88]

Would be fine if interesting stuff was happening. But nothing interesting has been happening since at least 2019. The last 4 years have been Hell! Even COVID is still around, albiet in a weaker state than it was, about 4 years ago.

[FallingLeaves]

i i feel like i reincarnate into the late 20th century, a lot. So much so i kinda know instinctively what I'm getting into when I get here. I don't much like it... i reincarnate earlier sometimes, my current time loop takes me back as far as the mid 19th century.... but mostly I'm late twentheth centruy or later.

.I've been in lots of futures since here as well.... a lot of them are as awful as you are considering while you live through them. I didn't much appreciate the futures where AI takes over and evertyhing becomes even more mechanistic than it already is. Almost like someone took every awful idea in the universe and made me live through it. So tired of having to pretend I am what I'm not just to survive...

A couple of futures have been sorta cozy though.... That Joseph person is so wonderful any time we can find a way to relate! though I still wouldn't want to go back to even those futures sigh.... im sorta getting tired of selecting a script to live out.... I used to wish I could just go home already but any more accepting I can't also seems better than continuing to believe I'll ever make it there....

FWIW I've wondered if I was separated from someone at birth, or even if I'm not in the right family? i don't much deal with such though because the possibilities are endless... and I'm sorta in a life where I get to believe whatever zany thing I decide is believable even though it has absolutely no basis in reality, and don't really want to do that any more. IF I don't get to know exactly what is real to begin with there is no point speculating because it will just get me more of the same. Sometimes not knowing the answers is seeming like the smart move...

I have the gender dysphoria too, but, after so many lives where I've tried to satisfy that I've found I just can't, I'll either hurt with the dysphoria or I'll hurt with my efforts to fight the dysphoria. YEah it has been proven I can succeed in such fights bu the price is very high and I end up hurting another way.. So I think I'm in trouble either way so any more it is like, if I'm gonna hurt no matter what I do why not take the freebie instead of going to a lot of effort just to get the same results? Not very satisfying I suppose but really, I found living other ways trying to get what I should have just had isn't ever very satisfying either. So it is a matter of, just accept what I've got and quit trying to make it into something else? Seems awful but I'm between a rock and a hard place, and again it is starting to seem good, just take the pain that it seems Im stuck with the easiest way possible... honestly it seems insulting any more that I'm made to feel like I've gotta do hard stuff when that doesn't get me anywher nice either...

[BlakeGood88]

I could reincarnate into the 1950s (reborn in 1948, instead of 1988) as a girl but there's a few issues; I could end up with Polio and wouldn't want that and the sexism was worse back then. I wouldn't mind having to wear dresses and skirts to school. That isn't a problem and they wore such cute fancy smocked dresses, back in the 50s and 60s. The big problem is ending up with Polio. Not being able to use your legs and having to use crutches would be very annoying. Also, the lack of video games I couldn't live without. Sure, TV existed and music was way better than anything from today, but would it really be worth it? On one hand, the 1960s had the best fashion out of all the decades in the second half of the 20th century. But on the other, a lot of riots and assassinations happened; like imagine being a sophomore in high school and finding out that the president has just been assassinated! That would be parallel to 9/11 from this life, except 9/11 in this life happened when I was in 6th grade. As interesting as this sounds and how it would be like a prequel to this life (in terms of the timeframe, but only relevant to this life) I still feel like revisiting this life, but as a different person, but in the same family sounds way more interesting and it would be familiar to me.

There's just more stuff to do as a girl in the 1990s compared to being a girl in the 1950s. I knew a friend and she played video games. This was around the late 1990s and early 2000s when the Nintendo 64 was popular. Her favorite game was Perfect Dark and she was the reason why I got into that game and enjoyed it. I couldn't replicate the same feeling as a female in the 1950s, but coming back and being my twin sister and hanging out with that same girl again would be interesting because we would be BFFs, instead of just a boy hanging out with a girl. It reminded me of Henry and June from the Nickelodeon cartoon KaBlaam!