Is Reincarnation Real? | Nick Mullen on The Adam Friedland Show

[@pinkfloydguy7781]

In Buddhism there’s also no conception of a beginning or end of time, so basically any kind of gay sex you can imagine, you’ve already had it infinite times. It is really comforting to think about.

[@11kungfu11]

So there is most likely a universe where gay actor Michael Douglas was NOT gay?

[@toastedt140]

​@@11kungfu11Only in the worst timelines

[@tsedubgyatso]

I’m a Buddhist monk and this checks out folks 👍

[@ThePageNo1]

@@tsedubgyatso cheeks out folks

[@daniellong7926]

Wow. Just imagine how amazing it would be to have infinite gay sex.

[@tonyreyes3780]

Nick Mullen really out here scandalously flaunting his ankle like a Victorian era pole dancer.

[@DannySullivanMusic]

lol dude nice one

[@brandonc4985]

Here’s the thing though, if you do reincarnate as a person, you’re probably gonna be Indian or Chinese.

[@hithere4719]

That’s why you have to be good. Buddha told his students they needed to get their thoughts under control, lest they come back as a dravidian.

[@greenburg2276]

Ok

[@kgtherocky]

Nooooooooooo

[@Grundlesweat]

Imagine being Indian only to be reincarnated as Chinese

[@williamgass9242]

Only if you suck

[@lewismulligan2244]

If Adam was a Pokémon he would be the awkward middle evolution after catching a Timothee Chalamet before it finally evolved into Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[@scottsmith8162]

Good one 👊

[@CyberneticArgumentCreator]

Was "He's like if Timothee Chalamet and Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a retarded baby" not good enough? What made you think Pokemon was the way to go here?

[@LankyMofo]

Palpatiene

[@johnnycapps9010]

Wordy but I like the idea :)

[@Alfielthomas]

A rare instance of my best friend Nick being sincerely sweet

[@doclime4792]

Well yeah because according to the logic, he must of been a saint to come back as a millionaire? Podcaster. He dragged himself up this spiritual caste system and thinks everyone else should do the same.

[@DannySullivanMusic]

agreed dude. entirely right dude

[@chuckheap]

Fucking lost it at "That's just some peice of shit, a shit mom" 😂😂😂

[@Golden284-fan]

If my mom came back as a black person she would be VERY upset, wonderful lady.

[@keith3946]

Every moment of this show feels like that weird moment you have when you've been hanging out at a friend's house talking for too long, and neither one of you is wrapping it up to leave. These dudes are drier than a Muslim wedding in Dubai.

[@Bulasheyadadoptop]

You have to be gay to enjoy it

[@des5748]

All 100,000 of us are best friends with Nick, so watch your mouth buddy. Careful starting your car tomorrow.

[@dsadawrware]

he is intentionally not doing bits or impressions and he openly bitches on other podcasts AND here about how much he resents being seen as the "cum" guy, if you are here to see nick mullen do the thing that made him famous, you're shit out of luck

[@MyHandsForWar]

Everyone who watches has to force themselves too, it's like white noise

[@mr.coolmug3181]

How can we really know how dry a Muslim wedding in Dubai is though?

[@DisposableCowboy]

Indian people and college freshmen girls have a lot of similar beliefs.

[@Poopmannn]

Yeah weird it’s almost like yoga comes from Hinduism and a lot of girls are into yoga

[@bonson9156]

I want the sweet mommas

[@jerryfromtheblock6463]

Im not sure who controls this channel but that thumbnail is incredible work lmao

[@143jcm]

its a fun idea if we only reincarnate back to earth, imagine dying then spawning on a planet with an environment that produces just millions of Adam as the baseline

[@chucklefuck]

Planet Gay Bug

[@hithere4719]

That’s what NYC and Palestine are. Remember those poor people in your prayers. I mean, look what it did to my good friend Nick.

[@pinkfloydguy7781]

Okay so I haven’t heard this from any teacher but I’ve heard other Buddhists say that it’s our karmic entanglement to each other that keeps beings of one world all rebirthing on the same world together. So if that were true then like, probably only people who would rebirth on another world would be the operation paperclip Nazi scientists that did experiments on the survivors of the Roswell crash.

[@nicholasbyram296]

Adam's mother would obviously be reincarnated as a black teen, deadass...

[@roberthorry621]

and his dad would come back as a gay dung beetle

[@tq6892]

@@roberthorry621lmao

[@dom-ru5cc]

That would slap

[@MinaDeborah]

Never noticed how delicate these mans ankles were

[@GameConnoisseur69]

I wanna hold em up you feel me?

[@junes2k]

Nicks adopted son popping up on the picture frame is killin me

[@Donatokoko]

RIP Ronaldo Fink Mullen

[@gorgonot44]

I want to come back as Nicks sick hat

[@KH-rt3ef]

The uncut look is timeless

[@MCalla-jw8vh]

Interesting. you want nicks head inside you, but I'm the one who's gay.

[@paulltyler]

It's nutria, which is a type of rat, and it's a poorly made one at that.

[@withnail-and-i]

Pythagoras believed in metempsychosis, which is the transmigration of souls. Plato talks about this in the Phaedrus. Something else that Plato talks about: gay dudes.

[@johnheitkam193]

"Its one thing to make people laugh, its another to make people smile" -Norm MacDonald

[@MahkyVmedia1]

Okay do you have anything of your own or are you just good at repeating what other people say? You're useless.

[@twenty-fourframedavinci8641]

Childhood is when you think Osama Bin Laden was somehow a cool woke freedom fighter. Adulthood is when you realize Charlie Manson had more of a spine than Richard Nixon

[@bloodeagle6458]

That stink-bug line triggered Adams PTSD

[@herbertmoon998]

Its heartwarming how Nick has to be irrational in order to be positive

[@Epiousios18]

What's irrational about the concept of reincarnation? Just seems optimistic or hopeful.

[@ASTROPLANET13]

​@@Epiousios18I'm not sure if it counts as irrational, just that to me it's kind of pointless. I view it as an ancient attempt at instilling empathy in people when you remind them they *LITERALLY* could be walking in somone else's shoes. But sadists and the selfish don't care. They prioritize the now so it's a weak incentive imo. Also, if my memories are gone and my brain (assuming I have one) is fundamentally different , is that a good analogy of the self? Hell no. A butterfly ain't gon ponder about human wants. I guess if nectar is code for pootang.

[@sebasitn]

​@@ASTROPLANET13 Calling it some golden rule justification coming from up top neglects the stellar literature arguing in favor of reincarnation like what you find in Plato. If you read the dialogue, Phaedo, I promise you'll come away thinking there's a whole lot more informing the belief than merely attempts at normalization. Questioning what the transmigratory "self" might be is an interesting topic of discussion, which mountains of lit in the Eastern canon has tried addressing. I think it's premature to handwave so much work and thought merely on the basis that it's not an effective tool for sustaining social harmony, following from your norm-setting assumption, and using what for many is the starting point for their investigation of the self, how it in some way may constitute the constellation of conditions, to dismiss the whole idea.

[@DannySullivanMusic]

agreed. absolutely true dude

[@bonson9156]

Depression is real man.

[@AllThatAmar]

This is the best "what would you do?" episode ever.

[@goodolarchie]

The hilarious thing is probabalistically Nick is getting more likely to be reborn a poor Indian or Nigerian than anyone who would get to experience ice cream.

[@DeadPig325]

thats fair in a roundabout way

[@IZA_Grey]

Nick was the San Frangelico guy in a previous life

[@studioarcady]

I always have thought that Freddie and Lancaster in the Master were Daniel Plainview and the priest in their past life. In that way, The Master is a sequel

[@yaboykirby7789]

My Dad's last words to me before he died were "I'm going to be reincarnated as your first girlfriend"

[@NathanielHanks]

6:05 Great bit from Adam

[@janberkemeier7406]

"The Unsinkables" "The Unsmellables" "The Ferengi" It's like poetry

[@TheHonoredMadman]

6:22 That shit had me rolling. Of course thats something that would cross Adams mind but holy shit what a great insight

[@ottoginafiel5468]

Fran Leibowitz has the same face as Klaus Schwabb

[@antoinepecquet3147]

Endearing conversation. On a side note : Zijek doesn't know shit about Buddhism. There's nothing passive about the Dharma. One is actually seriously encouraged to actively build good karma and merit in the present life, because there is no shortage of really shitty lives to take rebirth into.

[@petewerehere]

Sila (morality) is a core tenet of Buddhism. It's all over the Noble Eightfold Path (which is the guide to Enlightenment in Buddhism). Even the spokes of the Path that aren't explicitly about sila are strengthened and guarded by proper sila. To be fair to Zizek, most Westerners don't bother engaging with sila all that much and are more concerned with "being spiritual" and meditation making them feel good.

[@Uncle_Dave_Dave]

western world is filled with hylics@@petewerehere

[@heywhatsupnerd.7793]

This man got thin leg

[@roberthorry621]

coke legs

[@SneakyBadness]

There's gives way too much existential panic. I cant

[@DrLazerbeam]

The "gotta be something wrong with that guy" hat

[@briansimerl4014]

I want to reincarnate into the Town Manager in Storm of the Century.

[@MarbleStatueMillett]

Ram Dass, the best eastern inspired Jew who found his spirituality middles aged.

[@ConnorNolan]

This is so deep and cool wow

[@cooladam5487]

I was straight when I started watching this video.

[@thavisanimation]

i really like this podcast

[@mr.coolmug3181]

At the heart of the caste system is the idea that something is what it is and remains what it is, before and after its incarnation. So a dalit is a dalit is a dalit, and that doesn't change. A dalit remains eternally a dalit, and it leaves no room for exceptions, I assume.

[@goodolarchie]

Adam's mom reborn as a shift manager of a Carl's Jr that tells Adam that they stopped taking orders ten minutes ago.

[@gung2549]

I want to come back as a gay man

[@Ball_drips]

Again

[@severalwolves]

come *on your* back…

[@Jeffreyk7]

There is a great story of a young boy, 9/11 and the reincarnation of a New York City fire lieutenant who perished in The North Tower. The full story as told by the boy's mother on (and off) a popular Reincarnation Forum starting in 2007 up to the present day. The books full title, Fire in the Soul: Reincarnation from Antietam to Ground Zero. The author is Jeffrey Keene a retired Asst. Fire Chief.

[@globaldottools4432]

Nick’s exposed ankle amid his full winter regalia is disgusting.

[@roberthorry621]

gay

[@GameyRaccoon]

That thumbnail though

[@SYNTAAAX]

Who is that woman in the picture next to Manson

[@tobypadilla1519]

That's actually Adam

[@CloveCoast]

When Nick isn’t being comedic but just sharing his outlook it’s painfully depressing to me

[@TopSoulMan]

If reincarnation is real, i would assume that you could reincarnate to any living being. Adam would come back as a tape worm.

[@zusty9589]

Nick attended some kind of American Seon "meditation area" for a time but still thinks that East Asian Buddhism doesn't hold to reincarnation for some reason

[@adrenochromejoe7448]

1:00 AHHHHHH! What is this a horror-movie?

[@cheddar8213]

Hey guys its me chode adam

[@DITDS]

Why tf does the thumbnail of Charles Manson reincarnating into Fran Lebowitz have no pay off in the video ? I’m disappointed… Wanted to hear that…😢

[@arempy5836]

Nick is Manson, Adam is Lebowitz. That's the bit.

[@cooladam6670]

The idea of reincarnation has existed in Judaism and Christianity as well.

[@Uncle_Dave_Dave]

to correct you, reincarnation still exists in judaism. takes 10-14 generations depending on who you ask. True christianity is much closer to islam. In that, if you die correctly, you never have to return to this shit hole. This is the training ground for a soul, and that to move to heaven, you have to dismiss earthly things, and instead be concerned about the true common good, and truth. The cycle ends, and the souls that have been rejecting authority in the form of truth are deleted. You don't "go to hell" god eliminates that aspect of himself because spending energy to sustain evil beings is clearly a waste of fing time.

[@udippatel6147]

wow, actual comedy based on something of substance on this show, a rare sight. most of the time it's meandering and giggling over nothing

[@alpo777]

my best friend nick is such a deep thinker . maybe i’ll be gayer in my next life .

[@mx338]

Now watch Angel Beats, it's anime about reincarnation in the Bhudist way.

[@generallyuninterested4956]

Til death do us part, releases us from the expectation of ethereal monogamy

[@N1ckvan1oon]

Adam would probably be reincarnated as a different type of dust eating bug.

[@creamsleaze4257]

Unstinkables!!!!!

[@awarenessonly.]

Our brain can catch thoughts floating in the air and we may think that it is past life memory. There is no past birth or next birth because there’s is no eternal immortal inner self independent of its constituent cause and conditions. Body and mind dies decays disintegrates and disperses. Live this life as best as you can because it is the only opportunity. Idea if past life and soul is a fiction good for entertainment

[@ByJoshKrause]

2:58 Adam is perhaps the most detestable thing on Earth.

[@americasmostwantedhater]

i am only a good person so i'll be reincarnated as a great dane named bruce owned by a white woman

[@hithere4719]

Adam is a stink bug. Most bugs stink, but it’s in Adam’s name.

[@andywiddowson4122]

Frozen, is that you?

[@Trisket]

Adam immediately trying to derail Nick's point about Indian reincarnation by bringing up yoga, which is also from India. Truly the worst co-host on the show named after him.

[@Ch33ziTzsk8R]

Adam needs a new set of shoes for fuck sake there’s NO tread on that shoe…

[@kertpilman]

Ferengi :D

[@CH-mu8el]

I don't know why Adam's talking about heaven. He's definitely not going there

[@KingofthaJews]

Are you?

[@DeadPig325]

Adam speaking chinese poor thing😢

[@maxwellpollockable]

living forever is literally the least comforting thought

[@Deity333]

Maha Maha Vishnu

[@TimoshiKami]

I'm on the toilet pooping

[@Samozuo666]

why does he sits like that

[@oisinmurphy8242]

Dmt mullen

[@santaclause369]

Reïncarnation is the ultimate cop out and even if u nirvana who the fach cares great job ur an ubernerd.

[@frankmcclusky7870]

The spiritual worldview isn’t true but it’s a lot like living in your favorite anime or Marvel slop where larger than life characters are battling demonic hordes and plagues of locusts and shit or you have New Agers and pseudo-Gnostics fighting inter dimensional archons farming bad vibes from humanity for sustenance like some kind of cosmic Phillip-Morris. The informal spirituality is so much funnier than the standard organized stuff- because they’ll have whatever their favorite conspiracies are all mixed and matched together like a Chinese buffet and suddenly Robin Williams is on the Galactic Council consulting with the 5th dimensional beings on humanity’s ascension and smoking blunts and drinking brews are religious sacraments. Shout out to Prince Phillip for wanting to reincarnate as a disease. I choose to believe he got his wish as one of those novel COVID strains from a year or two ago

[@sebasitn]

Cynical overdose like this doesn't come off as well informed and transcendent as you think it does.

[@emona5776]

You sound fun to have at a hang-out. Also, me and you. Gay sex, right here. Right now.

[@frankmcclusky7870]

That’s fine, the peddlers of the transcendent are typically con artists or rapists preying off of desperation and desire for community and meaning. Doesn’t matter if it’s Qanon, Scientology, Branch Davidians, Love Has Won, NXIVM- they’re all predatory structures to fill that hole.

[@Uncle_Dave_Dave]

prince phillip already was incarnated as a disease. he was a royal, they are humanities parasite.

[@adamplentl5588]

How is that a comfortable way to sit?

[@roberthorry621]

it feels good if you have a bagina

[@LordJagd]

This made me realize how the process of reincarnation is just something that happens, it’s not like the Christian (and I guess Islamic) idea of Heaven or hell that necessitates you believing in a specific god and that he has judgement and control over the universe, and if you don’t believe then you’re going to the bad place. Really makes reincarnation just seem like a pretty neutral idea (I guess you don’t even need a religion around it to believe in it) and the Abrahamic religions seem like such an obvious scam lol