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.
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.
Easy: House cat.
One of the well-looked-after, non-abused ones, naturally.
I already know about the monkey’s paw curses for that.
You have the constant recurrent belief that your owners are not pampering you at all times on purpose. And that they’re basically stupid big kittens who meow all the time and are terrible hunters. And that they control the rain but won’t turn it off for you. And also I don’t like this brand of food any more.
And hairballs.
I suppose it’s time I had another nap.
… but I think I can live with all that.
Cute rich girl with a tragic backstory I guess
Can I come back as a black hole?
cat
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.
Sloth. Minimal change necessary
Lore-accurate Lilith cause she seems nice.
Biblical or Diablo 4?
Little bit of this, little bit of that.
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.
A duck. I get to walk swim and fly!
An olive tree. They look cool and I don’t want any amount of consciousness.
A mountain. But a revered one, that they’re not gonna blow up or dig tunnels through, like Mt Fuji. Just chill and look at the scenery and the goofy little humans, for thousands of years.
Each kind of incarnation has its own time-speed…
Rock’s time-speed means that its life is measured in not days ( insects ) or years ( bigger mammals ), but in megayears.
They don’t chill, when they’re formed by being mashed into each-other ( Himalayas ). Maybe they do when filled-in into existing, with lava…
Not trying to be an asshole, only trying to keep the view accurate, because yes, incarnations can catch-in such kinds of matter, & the consequences are real.
( life is a property-of-universe, not a created-by-this-configuration-of-matter “magic” which specific configurations-of-matter “create”, as the dogma of Physicalism pretends )
Castaneda pointed-out that religions among mountains tend to be angry or/and jealous, & … yes, that checked out…
( even Tibetan Buddhism: wrathful-path Buddhism of the mountains, with its Dharmapalas, etc… )
Carlos was of the opinion that it was the spirit-of-the-mountains which was tainting them that way…
It is, though, entirely possible that crushed-together tectonic mountains are totally-different-in-spirit than lava-formed mountains, as Hawaii seems much calmer … mind you, the ocean’s dominant-spirit there, so that may be the reason for the Hawaian difference…
but the timescale-difference is real, & significant…
Once I knew someone who’d had an incarnation as a mountain-range-portion…
… some bright/hot/energetic/curious people got all over it, & its awareness caught in their energies … breaking that incarnation, yanking that continuum/soul into the human-category-realm’s incarnations …
the civilization was flicker/blur speed to the stone-bedded mind, that had been just doing its thing…
ALL is at-least-passively alive…
I have no idea if the lava-formed mountains are chill.
I know the mashed-together ones are not.
That’s all I’m adding.
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Hornet: been 1 in a previous incarnation ( hornet/wasp/bee, anyways ), & their awareness is stupendous compared with the little awareness in a fish ( whatever kind of fish that incarnation was ).
The flying social/hive insects seem to pack the most awareness per mg of bodyweight among all creatures.
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Better than wasp who just like to hurt ppl
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.
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.
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
+1 for blue jay, they are auspicious.
