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’d love a chance to be reborn as myself and I promise this time I won’t fuck it up.
Mr Cumfart I rarely expect your comments to be so relatable
Dont make promises that you cant keep.
I’m pretty sure that’s what you said last time.
Jellyfish. Nothing to worry about. Just floating around. Get eaten? No sweat, you don’t even have a brain. It’s be pretty boring, but what do you care? You don’t have a brain.
Alternately, the blue jays always seem to be having a good time.
+1 for blue jay, they are auspicious.
You can also be relatively immortal
Not that I’d notice, since I’d have no ability to conceptualize time. Jellyfish are truly the apex of evolution
Especially Vladdy
I’ve already been reincarnated as a wind turbine. I wasnt sure how to feel about it at first, but now I’m a big fan.
Hmm, I dunno. Everything blows when you’re a wind turbine.
Would I be limited to life on this planet? I wouldn’t mind having a go as some alien lifeform on some distant planet.
I don’t think the rest of the universe is that willing to see us spread around, as they’re watching us destroy the single planet we have access to. Human species is considered a bit too dangerous for the health of the rest of the universe.
Just imagining an alien studying a beetle analog and wondering why it’s killing everything within a meter of it and planting only one type of crop that it just uses to stand on.
Nothing. I suffered for a lifetime as the dominant species on the planet.
Leave me in the void, please.
You’ll evntually get called out for jury duty, sorry.
Perhaps the void could still bear life?
A little dog. Then a beautiful Fräulein would buy me and love me and cuddle me for the rest of my life. No need for wedding rings or divorce lawyers; just good food everyday and treats in between. What more could you want.
Seconding puppy dog :3. Free snacks if I do tricks, naps whenever I want, and a warm house to stay in for free? Sounds like a sweet deal
Monkey’s finger curls
You have just been born in a puppy mill. It’s overcrowded, there’s shit everywhere, and a lot of the dogs you’re crammed in with are diseased. Your mother tries to look at you, but her eyes are stuck closed with conjunctivitis. You try to suck on her nipples but there’s so little milk. You cough.
D:
Humans don’t treat animals well enough.
Capybara would be legit. Chill with everyone. Just eat and swim all day.
Housecat please. I think I’ve really upped my goodness in this life and can hopefully have a calm, warm, cozy environment to exist in next time.
Cute rich girl with a tragic backstory I guess
A Greenland shark. I would just chill in the ocean forever.
Or maybe a Sperm whale so I could fight and eat giant squid all the time. >:3
*Either way I eventually die as the oceans warm and the ecosystem that supports me collapses.
**We’ll eventually have no choice but to reincarnate as algae.
If I were confined to the aquatic, sperm whale would be my choice. Moby Dick, thou hast left thy mark on me.
Greenland shark would be kind of horrible imho. Stuck in eternal cold darkness and eventually some parasite eats your eyes and you can’t do anything about it
Sea turtle
cat
Mountain lion. Just chilling in the mountains, napping for 14 hours a day, occasionally sneaking up on a deer, they have life figured out.
Then a developer comes and turns your home into a ski resort and sub division for retirees. You try to find new territory but the other mountain lions attack you. You’re forced further away into unsuitable habitat and eventually starve to death.
I would simply embrace my new source of food and make sure the bodies aren’t found.
Eat the rich!
A duck. I get to walk swim and fly!
I would opt out. Once is enough.
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.
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.
