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Palm Springs - the new Groundhog Day style movie is an eternal time loop - like human lifetimes!

6 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this commentary, the speaker reflects on the premise of the film Palm Springs, where characters are trapped in a repeating day that resets regardless of their actions, even death. They draw a parallel between this narrative device and the concept of reincarnation, suggesting that just as the characters know they will awaken to the same day, souls may know they will be reborn into new lives. The speaker muses on the philosophical tension between meaninglessness—since actions seem to have no lasting consequence—and significance—because each iteration still matters in the moment. They question how one would behave if aware that each ‘lifetime’ resets, exploring ideas of agency, determinism, and the search for purpose within an endless cycle.

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They know for certain that they're going to wake up again in exactly the same day. Like, that is certain. Whether they get killed, no matter what they do in that day, they will wake up again in the same place. So that kind of made me think, like, it's kind of like a lifetime. Like, when you choose to incarnate, you know you're going to, like, go back Come out of this life form and you can choose to incarnate again. So it's sort of like that— what would you do if you knew, like, kind of none of it mattered, but it did matter at the same— like, you know what I mean? Like, it doesn't really matter whatever you do in that day, or AKA lifetime, you are still going to be like— you're still going to start back at the beginning again. And it's kind of a bit like each lifetime, like no matter what you do, you can reincarnate and start again. No matter what you do, you can reincarnate.