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• violent raids have decreased in many regions thanks to stronger palace kingdoms and organized chariot armies (yes, having the Hittite king threaten your neighbors counts as “regional stability”)
• roads and trade routes are more connected than ever; you can travel from Egypt to Babylon using established caravan networks without immediately dying in the desert
• written information is becoming increasingly accessible because scribes now copy diplomatic letters, myths, and trade records onto clay tablets instead of relying entirely on oral tradition
• faster communication via royal messengers means kings can hear about rebellions, famines, and invading “Sea Peoples” within days or weeks instead of entire seasons later
• international diplomacy is thriving; the great powers literally call each other “brother” in letters now, which is basically the Late Bronze Age equivalent of global cooperation
• luxury goods are more available than ever before. You can buy tin from Central Asia, lapis from Afghanistan, ivory from Africa, and Mycenaean pottery all in the same port city
• niche cults and obscure local gods are spreading everywhere. If you’re obsessed with some storm god from northern Syria, there’s definitely a shrine for him somewhere
• military careers are more accessible to commoners, not just hereditary warrior aristocrats. Congratulations, you too can die in a chariot accident for the glory of the king
• bronze weapon production has massively increased thanks to expanded trade networks moving copper and tin across continents
• monumental engineering is advancing rapidly; massive temples, cyclopean walls, and sophisticated irrigation systems are being built everywhere
• literacy among elites is at an all time high. Entire archives full of treaties, taxes, and angry diplomatic complaints are being preserved for future archaeologists to decode
• economic specialization is increasing. Some cities now basically exist entirely to produce textiles, metalwork, dyes, or ceremonial goods
• seafaring technology has improved enough that merchants regularly cross huge stretches of the Mediterranean carrying cargo instead of just hugging coastlines in terror
• more kingdoms are becoming economically interconnected instead of surviving as isolated river valleys praying for a good harvest every year

the only reason this era feels more unstable than the Early Bronze Age is because everyone keeps hearing constant rumors about collapsing kingdoms, droughts, and migrating peoples through traders and scribes. But honestly, Ugarit only got burned down once and there’s still a huge civilized world outside the eastern Mediterranean panic cycle.

So this existential crisis began when I first started to get scared of eternal oblivion after death/no afterlife, but I got over it and after finding out about forced reincarnation I am desperately wishing for it to be true, then it evolved into a fear of forced reincarnation, where I get reincarnated in an terrible life without my control, I think it’s the most likely scenario to happen after you die, because assuming the universe and existence is infinite, there’s a chance you are born again without your control, and those past life memories by young children and this fear is costing me months of my life, PLEASE tell me reincarnation isn’t real and please dont tell me you won’t remember anything it won’t help at all

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So this existential crisis began when I first started to get scared of eternal oblivion after death/no afterlife, but I got over it and after finding out about forced reincarnation I am desperately wishing for it to be true, then it evolved into a fear of forced reincarnation, where I get reincarnated in an terrible life without my control, I think it’s the most likely scenario to happen after you die, because assuming the universe and existence is infinite, there’s a chance you are born again without your control, and this fear is costing me months of my life, I can’t even enjoy any fun things because of this anxiety, i want to rest forever. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!! I CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!! Please please please PLEASE tell me reincarnation isn’t real please I want to experience happiness again

So this existential crisis began when I first started to get scared of eternal oblivion after death/no afterlife, but I got over it and after finding out about forced reincarnation I am desperately wishing for it to be true, then it evolved into a fear of forced reincarnation, where I get reincarnated in an terrible life without my control, I think it’s the most likely scenario to happen after you die, because assuming the universe and existence is infinite, there’s a chance you are born again without your control, and this fear is costing me months of my life, I can’t even enjoy any fun things because of this anxiety, i want to rest forever. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!! I CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!! Please please please PLEASE tell me reincarnation isn’t real please I want to experience happiness again

Let me explain this first for these past months I’ve been having a non stop anxiety about what happens after death, first it was about eternal oblivion, i got over that, then it was about forced reincarnation, about me reincarnating without my consent, now it’s about the eternal recurrence theory, where after i die i repeat my whole life forever and ever and i really dont want eternal recurrence to be true and this anxiety has been taking me months of my life i can’t go a single moment without this anxiety i want to rest forever after i die

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when you guys say the universe is under no obligations to make sense to us you don’t seem to be bothered about it, how do you guys handle it?

I would really really like to know why existence exists at all

For me personally I don’t agree with many worlds interpretation because I find it absurd that a new alternate timeline where I put clothes B instead of A exists

I am extremely worried by our current problems, developed countries facing a demographic collapses, climate change getting worse and worse, extreme political instability/polarization, will we grow out of this fine? Are we living in a transition period or very dark times are ahead?