Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway?

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All these memes about wanting to die: You could have been a chunk of ice orbiting Saturn, but you lucked into the single greatest thing the universe has to offer, sentient life.

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  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How do we know sentience is the greatest? It could be peaceful just orbiting.

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    • Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You wouldn’t know your alive though or even exist. You would just be.

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      • justsquigglez@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sounds like heaven to me, most of my troubles come from knowing what my situation is and how powerless I am.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Even if it’s just Earth, if we assume there is a degree of randomness in species assignment then you’ve got decent odds of reincarnating as an ant:

  We conservatively estimate total abundance of ground-dwelling ants at over 3 × 10^15^ and estimate the number of all ants on Earth to be almost 20 × 10^15^ individuals. 1

  And of course, massively high odds of being a bacteria. There are probably ~40 trillion bacteria living just in your body right now:

  They estimate that the range of bacterial cells goes from about 30 to 50 trillion in each individual. 2

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  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Now add the ocean. Yeah, we all spend billions of years coming back as bacteria

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• DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean that can explain a lot. I’ve always been a creature of great inertia, more like a tectonic plate than a human being

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  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I always admire your name

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    • DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And the same to you, good sir!

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