• cinoreus@lemmy.world
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    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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      I am reading #4 saying “oh my god” while looking like the dude in the anti-AI memes who is stunned when the computer says what he told it to say.

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

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      Koalas are literally smooth brained and have chlamydia. Like they are so stupid that they don’t even recognize eucalyptus leaves (their favorite food) if the leaves aren’t hanging on the tree and you put the leaves on a plate in front of the koala.

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        so what you are saying is that men are like Koalas. too stupid to see the truth and rapists pieces of shit.

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      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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    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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      I can actually secularize the idea of cosmic justice. I can totally imagine the idea of karma being a completely mechanistic process, just extremely complicated and convulated involving multiple other dimensions.

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        Karma has been interpreted that way, as basically just cause and effect in the field of human ethics. It’s also extremely misunderstood by virtually everyone in the west.

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            Well without spoiling anything, it sounds like it might be right up your alley.

            Very funny and very thought provoking. They get pretty in the weeds at times about how something like “secular” karma-like system might work, and how the complexities of the modern world would make it essentially unworkable.

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

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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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      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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        Think of invasive species or whatever happens when a balance in nature is toppled. If they would be able to hoard more wealth they would do it.

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          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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        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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            Very few people realize how much we can impact the system if we all just rejected most things it offers us and lived the simplest life we could

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              The awesome thing about it is that it saves so much money, eliminates a lot of sources of stress, frees time and energy. You could cut back on work hours or retire earlier too!

              Honestly think we should be pushing more for a 4 hour work week too.

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          Me too! I mean, I wouldn’t be able to have any hoarded wealth even If I wanted to, so at least I don’t want it, so it’s fine

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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.

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    Potential titles for this isekai:

    • Fowl Reincarnation: All I Asked For Was a Quiet Life, Not a Holy War Over Breadcrumbs!
    • Pond Overlord
    • The Demon Lord is Quackers!
    • My Life as a Qillainess: Peace was never an option!
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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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      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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        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 😁