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.
73 Comments
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 42 pts · 132d
I’d love a chance to be reborn as myself and I promise this time I won’t fuck it up.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 132d
Mr Cumfart I rarely expect your comments to be so relatable
Jacob_Mandarin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 132d
Dont make promises that you cant keep.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 132d
I'm pretty sure that's what you said last time.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 132d
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.
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 132d
+1 for blue jay, they are auspicious.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 132d
You can also be relatively immortal
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 132d
Not that I'd notice, since I'd have no ability to conceptualize time. Jellyfish are truly the apex of evolution
CaptainThor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 131d
Especially Vladdy
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 132d
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.
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 132d
Hmm, I dunno. Everything blows when you’re a wind turbine.
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 132d
Would I be limited to life on this planet? I wouldn't mind having a go as some alien lifeform on some distant planet.
Libb@piefed.social · 5 pts · 132d
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.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 132d
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.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 132d
Nothing. I suffered for a lifetime as the dominant species on the planet.
Leave me in the void, please.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 132d
You'll evntually get called out for jury duty, sorry.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 132d
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 132d
Perhaps the void could still bear life?
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 131d
DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 132d
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.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 6 pts · 132d
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
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 6 pts · 132d
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.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 4 pts · 132d
D:
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 4 pts · 132d
Humans don't treat animals well enough.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 132d
Capybara would be legit. Chill with everyone. Just eat and swim all day.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 132d
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.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 132d
Cute rich girl with a tragic backstory I guess
Dasus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 130d
snoons@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 132d
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.
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 132d
If I were confined to the aquatic, sperm whale would be my choice. Moby Dick, thou hast left thy mark on me.
CybranM@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 132d
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
blarth@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 132d
Sea turtle
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 6 pts · 132d
I would opt out. Once is enough.
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 132d
What if you’re offered to be some 4th or 5th dimensional being?
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 2 pts · 132d
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.
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 132d
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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tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 3 pts · 132d
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.
Paragone@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 83d
Last-century, I was Catholic.
I earned, in deep meditation/trance, memories that didn't even fit human-sentience properly.
Years-later, I discovered they had been soul/continuum memories of other kinds of lives.
THAT nuked ALL the Abrahamic religions, at one single evidence.
It also nuked atheism.
It took me years to adjust my worldview to the evidence.
I see no reason for you to either do the experiment yourself, or to accept any testimony by anyone who has honestly done the years-of-meditating to earn such results.
"The Boy who Knew Too Much" is 1 book providing evidence that universe recycles-continuums, & lives are just momentary-stops of continuums: some accept that it falsifies the no-soul axiom.
There are academic publications, including a book of 100+ case-studies, of children who too-accurately could describe previous-lives, & their details: some accept that that entire-sea-of-evidence falsifies the no-soul axiom.
But I see no reason for anyone who holds it to be axiomatic that that's inherently untrue bunk, to bother testing-the-evidence, let-alone accepting ANY evidence contradicting their belief.
That is your, & all, right to your religion.
Constitutionally-protected, here..
Universe is going to recycle your continuum, whether you "believe in it" or not: it's blunt physics: ALL energies CONTAINED in universe, get recycled.
There are methods of making the process less-horrible, but they require taking the long view: working to earn future-lives having better-results.
Do what you can to eradicate what I'm saying from significance, for your-world's your-religion's benefit: that is good: Nature is competitive!
Let natural-selection of ideas happen.
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Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 132d
Mountain lion. Just chilling in the mountains, napping for 14 hours a day, occasionally sneaking up on a deer, they have life figured out.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 132d
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.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 132d
I would simply embrace my new source of food and make sure the bodies aren't found.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 132d
Eat the rich!
lennee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 132d
cat
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 132d
A duck. I get to walk swim and fly!
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 132d
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.
Paragone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 132d
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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chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 132d
I always thought to myself that I would like to reincarnate into a rock (not a whole mountain) and just chill for millions of years, if such a thing were possible. This is food for thought. I'm tickled that anyone has put this much thought into this.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 5 pts · 132d
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.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 5 pts · 132d
Lore-accurate Lilith cause she seems nice.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 132d
Biblical or Diablo 4?
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 4 pts · 132d
Little bit of this, little bit of that.
Generica@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 131d
A lesbian couple's cat. Do you really need an explanation?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 132d
Sloth. Minimal change necessary
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 132d
A pineapple. Just seems pleasant.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 132d
*flashback to sausage party
Paragone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 132d
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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Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 132d
Better than wasp who just like to hurt ppl
https://youtu.be/08kMdn8L7Yw?USiaiexhWaEy-LCC
kureta@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 132d
An olive tree. They look cool and I don't want any amount of consciousness.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 131d
Boring answer: human
Because I really appreciate sapience
ICastFist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 132d
Can I come back as a black hole?
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 132d
Elephant
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 131d
The other sex :3
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 131d
Good answer. It would be cool to have tits and hips
CaptainThor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 131d
Have you tried eating more?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 131d
I think being an ant or some other kind of eusocial insect would be interesting. Not the most peaceful existence out there, but definitely an interesting one.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 131d
In order
The other sex A different race A dachshund
Oka@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 132d
I wont be around to experience it, so why bother? Id probably be a cat i guess.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 131d
I would like to be reincarnated as a Sag A* size black hole centered right in DC because, well, everything
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 132d
Black vulture. The way they just glide on air currents looks amazing. Scavenging seems easier than hunting. And they're social animals, as opposed to turkey vultures (these being the two species in my area). Plus they look really cool.
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 132d
Per Wikipedia, there’s a curious relationship between Black Vultures and Crested Caracaras, in which the Caracara will bow its neck and the Vulture will then preen them. There doesn’t seem to be any discernible reason for this behavior.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 131d
I want to be reincarnated as a magic swordsman with OP skills and live a quiet life in the dangerous forest where everyone will leave me the fuck alone.
Strider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 132d
Dodo.
Reason: I want my dodo!
(it's a reference)
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 132d
As a billionaire‘s kid but develop my current mindset. I’d invest in genetic modification and add the "ability to speak gene" to cats and dogs (it has worked with mice)