hasunoha

Number of ancestors review

According to one sermon, my parents are 2, their parents are 4, my great-grandparents are 8... 16--32-64----128, and if it was 16 generations ago, I calculated 65,536 people 100 generations ago, then it became 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376 people! No matter how many Earths there are it won't be enough lol lol.

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It's interesting

Well, that's an analogy, so wouldn't it be nice if I could pick up what I wanted to say? It's not about theory, it's about communication.

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> Maybe my ancestors and your ancestors are the same.

No, that's why it was a staple story of “everyone is connected” from the beginning...

All humans are brothers

I read it.
Well, we all humans are siblings.
Or rather, all living things are siblings, aren't they?
That's a relationship, isn't it?

“2 to the nth power”... I belong to everyone

“I have 2 parents, 4 parents, 8 great-grandparents...”
Even if we assume that they were all only children, it is calculated that everyone has “ancestors of the 2nd n passenger.” No matter how many generations ago your ancestors were born without even one person, you wouldn't have been able to be born. It's really amazing, isn't it?

The fact that you exist there now is more proof than anything else that your ancestors, who numbered in such a huge number, have made it through that era.

As an aside, even in this Hasunoha, there are many people who want to die and complain that they want to die, but I definitely want them to think about this calmly.

How many of our ancestors died

 Well, that's because I'm talking about if everyone were alive.
This way of saying it in Buddhism is based on facts. However, people from around their great-grandparents four generations ago have already passed away each time, so they cannot be counted as a population. So as for the population, it will probably be as per the statistics so far.
Well, there is a possibility that there were that many people, but it's interesting to think about what happened after they died as humans, nothing, reincarnation, etc. If it's just humans, it should be decreasing rather than increasing, but that's not visible, and the same phenomenon is occurring in animal habitats such as insects and animals. after dying as a human or a beast? What was it before you were born a human or animal life? I think the Buddhist method is to expand one's thoughts.
Conversely, it is biologically impossible for Adam and Eve to spread all over the world.

Well, it's because they're wearing it as someone's ancestor somewhere, and most of them have already passed away. On the other hand, your DNA definitely contains DNA for 1,267,650, 600, 228, 229, 401,496,703,205, 376 people, even if you go back just 100 generations, and that is an unmistakable fact.