RobynWhat if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway?
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 What if it includes the entire universe and the chances of being a human, on Earth, are just super incredibly slim?
NaibofTabrEven 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 × 10^15^ and estimate the number of all ants on Earth to be almost 20 × 10^15^ 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
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.
SquigglezSounds 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.
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
I always admire your name
And the same to you, good sir!