cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/61827321
Surprisingly, it’s been 1.5 years since this was last asked.
I pick Peregrine Falcon. They thrive all across the globe, they’re fast as fuck when they’re in a dive, they’re the cutest killers, but they’re not at the top of the pecking order, which means a lust for life.
I would opt out. Once is enough.
Universe’s recycling of ALL energies ( including meaning ) contained within it is rigged: the only way to opt-out is to evolve one’s way out: force-dissolving one’s soul-ignorance/soul-ignosis…
Please read the brilliant Huston Smith book “World Religions”, the Hindu, & Buddhist chapters, & also the Primal Religions chapter, for an angle that Western-educated minds never would have thought-of…
Just for interesting-perspective, is all…
It’s a wonderful book: real mental exercise!
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For that, I would need to believe in some concept of a soul; I do not. What makes us is the electrical systems interacting with our nurons. When that stops working, that person no longer exists.
What if you’re offered to be some 4th or 5th dimensional being?
If I could zip around the past learning about language, culture, ancient hominins and such until I got tired of it, I would do that. Living again? No thanks.