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.
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 × 1015 and estimate the number of all ants on Earth to be almost 20 × 1015 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
What if it includes the entire universe and the chances of being a human, on Earth, are just super incredibly slim?
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.
How do we know sentience is the greatest? It could be peaceful just orbiting.
You wouldn’t know you’re alive though or even exist. You would just be.
Sounds like heaven to me, most of my troubles come from knowing what my situation is and how powerless I am.
Well now hold on…sometimes NOT knowing how bad you’re fucked is even worse!
For example…
tackles Squigglez to the ground, handcuffs them to the wall, and puts a hood over their face
See? Now you’re fucked, but the hood over your face makes it so you can’t see what I’m preparing, or how fucked you are!
Maybe I’m about to give you a ham dinner, or mabe I’m going to steal your kidneys. Who’s to say?
chainsaw revving
Now hold still…this is only going to hurt a lot.
Death is the option here. 🤷🏻♂️
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:
Now add the ocean. Yeah, we all spend billions of years coming back as bacteria
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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