• cinoreus@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Forget duck, give me life of an Orca. It checks every single checkbox for a fun comfortable life.

    1. Endangered: humans won’t fuck with them
    2. Intelligent: one of the most intelligent animals on this planet
    3. Apex predator: we kinda take this for granted. I dont wanna spend my life being chased by hawks.
    4. No mosquito
    5. They have great social life
    6. I’m giant, I fuck with fishes, mom doesn’t tell me anything cause she too is fucking with the fishes
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    16 hours ago

    Nope. Get me back to the starting point but grant me my memories from my past life.

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      17 hours ago

      Where you’re a slave but you dont have to do squat and they feed you and you dont have to pay them a dime. Then die before you’re life is over before you become a trapped burden to yourself and everyone around you.

      Unlike this life where you are a slave and have to scrape together to feed yourself and them…then you cant just simply die. no simple release. you must wither away.

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    1 day ago

    If you secularize the idea of rebirth, removing any idea of cosmic justice, all you have is a hypothetical naturalistic process. What you’ll be reborn as will depend on what’s being born, and the odds don’t look so great.

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    2 days ago

    It’s really funny to see a bunch of terminal online people to one-up each other about how much they know about duck penises.

    The comic is nice.

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    2 days ago

    People wishing to be one with nature don’t ever seem to realize that nature is brutal and horrific just as much as it is peaceful and serene. If anything it is more the former.

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      2 days ago

      Just like our lives, but at least theirs less to think about as a duck.

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      Yeah fuck nature. Domesticated cat is the sweet spot.

      Outside free to roam a fairly safe territory and then snuggles and guaranteed food and shelter pretty much on command.

      Ditto dog, but they’ve got a slightly less sweet deal.

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      2 days ago

      At least the animals are just trying to survive and procreate, rather than hoard more wealth than they can consume in a lifetime.

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          19 hours ago

          He’s try to eat it all, but he will not board hundreds thousands of times what he can possibly eat.

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        1 day ago

        I often hear people complain that billionaires could never actually use all their wealth. The hoarding of the wealth for their “use” was never the point though.

        Its all a game of power, influence, and leverage over other people. If you have more money than someone else, you get the ability to bully them. So for a billionaire, you want more money than the other billionaires. You also want to deprive poor and middle class people of wealth so they have even less leverage and are more desperate than they would be if you simply had a lot of money, and not all of the money.

        You can get a starving homeless person to do a lot more for you with an offer of cheap gruel than you can a contented peasant with a solid gold bar.

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          Huh, am I the contented peasant, largely by refusing to accept the bullshit of consumerism?

          It seems like I really dont need much money to be happy

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          We still have them, though I do suspect a lot fewer than would be there naturally. We have now wiped out almost all of our woodland in general.

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      That was my reaction. You could compare isolated moments from any two lives so one looks blissful and the other looks horrible.

      • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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        We had ducks when I was a kid, I know all about it.

        They may be cute, but they are horrible creatures and I don’t feel bad for eating them. Fuck you, ducks. Little assholes

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      You gotta wonder what fucked up stuff he did during his human life, to get reincarnated as one of the animal kingdom’s foremost rapists…

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    There’s no reincarnation and no afterlife. But comparison of human’s life and duck’s one made me thinking about it for a brief moment. Nah, human life is generally better and much more sophisticated. But yes, ducks don’t have to think about so much things.

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      17 hours ago

      There’s no reincarnation and no afterlife.

      less a fact and more a point of view just like everything else in which we can’t possibly know while in this form of perspective.

      almost like its intended in such a way so we can question our own ego on such things.

      but what do i know?

      nothing.

      just like you.

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        14 hours ago

        It’s also your imo And i know precisely that i know nothing and never enough. But critical thinking is a nice practical skill to develop in this life, so i’m sticking with it. It helps at decision making like a lot. It also helps out in various other things. Deal with it 😁

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    2 days ago

    You want to be reincarnated as an Epcot duck. Sure, there are fireworks every night, but other than that, it is easy, fat, living.