I disagree vehemently with Maartenn100's assertion that an eternal soul is more reasonable than the lack thereof.
For starters, science has yet to find even a whiff of a clue that such things as souls actually exist.
Secondly, eternity is a long, long time. Hypothetically it would extend an indeterminate distance in space-time, past both the Big Bang and the heat death of the universe (and, in theory at least, transcend the problem of time supposedly starting at the Big Bang).
As such, it would be statistically extraordinarily unlikely that the lot of us here on this planet would be "new souls." After aeons wandering around the universe/multiverse, a significant number of us should have access to mass quantities of useful knowledge that would make Newton, Einstein and Hawking look like preschoolers fighting over a toy truck in a sandbox. Instead we have infestations of inanity and disrespect such as religiously-motivated violence, an unwillingness to solve no-brainers such as keeping us all adequately fed, clothed, housed and healthy, and the current slate of candidates attempting a run for POTUS.
One would think that a bunch of clever old souls stuffed into meat suits would not be so susceptible to indoctrination and flawed thinking, yet here we are -- Regularly getting ourselves and others killed for unfathomably stupid reasons, including getting trampled to death in big box store stampedes on Black Friday.
If there actually are such things as souls they don't seem to be particularly useful things to have, and I wouldn't expect them to be any more useful the next time around. Or the time after that. Or the time after that...
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