• aarch0x40@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    You could take refuge in the fact that you must have been a very good plankton to make it all the way to human in a single cycle.

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      20 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.

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      18 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, and recently deceased plankton would fuel the hunger of the overlords, and doesn’t even remember

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        18 hours ago

        Damn, I didn’t realize plankton had it so hard. Makes sense that it would be krill or be krilled.