You could take refuge in the fact that you were a very good plankton to make it all the way to human.
What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway?
Submitted 18 hours ago by Robyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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aarch0x40@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
fonix232@fedia.io 17 hours ago
But human existence is suffering. Buddhism teaches that if you do incredibly well, you'll be reborn as a being with a worry-free life. Being a plankton sounds exactly like that.
IMO human existence, with all its benefits, is waaaaay below plankton.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Interesting thought, but I’ll take thought over what’s basically water-grass.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 9 hours ago
I wanna be a lobster
DrFistington@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Homie led the plankton revolt of 1831479QT, and ushered in a golden age of cooperation and peace between the sea Lords and planktonions, so that only the old, sick, recently deceased plankton would fuel the hunger of the overlords
aarch0x40@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Damn, I didn’t realize plankton had it so hard. Makes sense that it would be krill or be krilled.
tungah@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
He was a good christian plancton.
aarch0x40@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Then wouldn’t he have gone to plankton heaven?
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I remember though. A big whale ate me.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Speedrunning death again? So, how was it? Did you get to top 500?
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Even if you were a human your memories would still be in your previous brain. I see no reason to assume you’d remember anything from your previous life unless you believe there’s a “soul” that carries your memories rather than your brain.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I guess it would explain why everyone can fucking eat me.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
Pretty sure that’s because humans are simply at the top of the food chain and can eat pretty much any other animal, including other humans.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I use the name Donner to make restaurant reservations just to hear them say, “Donner, Party of four”
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
The ghost of Jeffery Dahmer has entered the chat.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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tanisnikana@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Wait a minute, I fucked up, viruses aren’t technically alive. Too bad, your soul is in it until it gets destroyed cause I’m not changing my original comment. You’ll just have to wait it out, then you can go back to being probably-but-not-always bacteria.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
I lean in favor of open individualism these days, so yes, I was, am, and will continue to be plankton for as long as plankton continues to exist. And to be extra cliche, I am also you, and you, and you, and you, and I am he, as you are he, as you are me, and we are all together.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 18 hours ago
That’s part of the whole mythology
You have no idea about your previous incarnation, it’s a way to try to manipulate people into being good which (as with all religions) relies on choosing stupid leaps of faith
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
No mythology, contrivances, or manipulation are necessary. Even from a completely secular perspective, some form of rebirth is arguably more likely than simply non-existence after death. Things like karma are unnecessary. If rebirth is real, even one driven entirely by naturalistic processes, then the state of the world is enough to make us ask what kind of world we want to be born into next. The more suffering there is in the world, the more likely it is you will be reborn as something that will suffer.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 12 hours ago
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Rebirth more likely…?
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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s not just about manipulating people into being good. It also gives great comfort to everyone who believes because if anything bad happens to someone, it’s because they deserved it.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 17 hours ago
Oh yeah, it (again, with all religions) gives people licence to be cunts
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
So I deserved my back injury and subsequent 7-stich wound? Perhaps I’m just a bad construction worker in this life.
saltesc@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Technically it’s true. There’s a high chance bits and pieces of you have been used in other life several times, though you were more likely parts of plants than other creatures.
And when you die, you’ll be reused again. Nature has always been like that.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 9 hours ago
Nothing goes to waste, but god-botherers and smelly hippies want to make something stupid out of it
HubertManne@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Thats an interesting take. Figure between sapient lifetimes there would likely be many on sentient lives and your last sentient life would just be a garble by the time you got a new one. Makes me wonder taking the idea that universe is just sorta sentience rearranged and you could then be rocks or beaches or such to. Its like life is a grade school play.
Beebabe@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Guess I was a bad plankton :(
Lumidaub@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Does my previous life have any effect on my current life? Then if I don’t even remember, the fuck do I care?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
What if it includes the entire universe and the chances of being a human, on Earth, are just super incredibly slim?
shalafi@lemmy.world 16 hours 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.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
How do we know sentience is the greatest? It could be peaceful just orbiting.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 16 hours 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:
And of course, massively high odds of being a bacteria. There are probably ~40 trillion bacteria living just in your body right now:
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Now add the ocean. Yeah, we all spend billions of years coming back as bacteria
DrFistington@lemmy.world 15 hours 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
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 9 hours ago
I always admire your name