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.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    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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      8 hours ago

      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.