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finallymadeanaccount lemmy.world finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-31
#52 · Quote Reply

Yes, it'll be a bloody long time before I come back as a human, I'll tell you that for nothing.

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krisevol lemmus.org krisevol@lemmus.org
Joined: 2026-03-16
#53 · Quote Reply

He got reincarnated as a violent rapist?

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AnimalsDream slrpnk.net AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-06-29
#54 · Quote Reply

If you secularize the idea of rebirth, removing any idea of cosmic justice, all you have is a hypothetical naturalistic process. What you'll be reborn as will depend on what's being born, and the odds don't look so great.

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Tikiporch lemmy.world Tikiporch@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-03
#55 · Quote Reply

If you secularize the idea of rebirth, removing any idea of cosmic justice, all you have is a hypothetical naturalistic process. What you'll be reborn as will depend on what's being born, and the odds don't look so great.

Here I come, Pelagibacter ubique.

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Geobloke aussie.zone Geobloke@aussie.zone
Joined: 2025-06-30
#56 · Quote Reply

Return as a yew tree. Come on, eat me fuckers, I dare you.

Fun fact, the English wiped out their yew trees to make longbows

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tim infosec.pub tim@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-08-15
#57 · Quote Reply

When I was a kid I was horrified by the idea of oblivion; just one day your body is too worn out to ever let you wake up again and you just don't, no dreams, no fate, no long tunnel of light. Not even sitting around waiting for something, but going back to the place I was for all the thousands of years before I was born; not being at all. I swear, the older I get the more and more attractive th...

More like trillions of years. As a secular person, I do still hold out hope for the idea of some kind of afterlife. Like maybe this is a simulation or something like that, and we'll get to be reunited with all our loved ones and continue to exist, explore and try new things, read all the books that have ever been written, watch all the movies and TV shows, play all the games, visit areas throughout history that you could've never seen while alive, talk to all the famous people throughout history who've lived and died - you get the point - up until we tire of existence itself and commit ourselves back to the universal fold. Basically, the setting of the Good Place, once it was turned into the actual Good Place. I really hope for something like that, because going back to nonexistence bums me out, even if by definition we cannot experience it.

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Fart Armpit lemmy.world GoldAxolotl@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-18
#58 · Quote Reply

There's no reincarnation and no afterlife.
But comparison of human's life and duck's one made me thinking about it for a brief moment. Nah, human life is generally better and much more sophisticated.
But yes, ducks don't have to think about so much things.

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TankovayaDiviziya lemmy.world TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-22
#59 · Quote Reply

Plot twist: He's reincarnated as a duck in a duck farm.

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legacy_warrior_104 lemmy.world legacy_warrior_104@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-11
#60 · Quote Reply

Meanwhile ducks are over here raping each other and they have crazy spiral dicks.

I have to search the image about this, but you know the even crazier part is that female ducks evolved spirals in the opposite direction

sources: X, X Viewer no login

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CalypsoGirl lemmy.today CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-08-15
#61 · Quote Reply

He got reincarnated as a violent rapist?

In a species that is bound by no laws.

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NotASharkInAManSuit lemmy.world NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-05-06
#62 · Quote Reply

Plot twist: He's reincarnated as a duck in a duck farm.

Meh, still better.

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NotASharkInAManSuit lemmy.world NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-05-06
#63 · Quote Reply

If you secularize the idea of rebirth, removing any idea of cosmic justice, all you have is a hypothetical naturalistic process. What you'll be reborn as will depend on what's being born, and the odds don't look so great.

“You’re being reincarnated.

Roll the D100.”

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NotASharkInAManSuit lemmy.world NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-05-06
#64 · (edited) Quote Reply

Equal opportunity rape birds.

Nature, as a whole, is a rapist, murderer, and cannibal far more often than not. Often all at once.

Edit: But there are also Quokkas, so it kind of evens out.

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NotASharkInAManSuit lemmy.world NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-05-06
#65 · Quote Reply

How's he wake up as a grown-ass duck?

A wizard did it.

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Axolotl.cpp lemmy.dbzer0.com Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-10-01
#66 · (edited) Quote Reply

If it was produced in the last ten years, is there any real chance it's not your first option?

60% chance of being the first, 40 of being the last, if it was made prior of 2020 then 2nd and 3rd are the most probable with a 45% each

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
#67 · (edited) Quote Reply

dont ducks try to gangrape a female duck.

i think capybara, koala, or sloth would be more better.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
#68 · Quote Reply

Potential titles for this isekai: Fowl Reincarnation: All I Asked For Was a Quiet Life, Not a Holy War Over Breadcrumbs! Pond Overlord The Demon Lord is Quackers! My Life as a Qillainess: Peace was never an option!

in australia there used to have massive duck and goose relatives, demon ducks and giga goose.

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TheStaffmaster lemmy.world TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-02
#69 · (edited) Quote Reply

GOALS

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vaultdweller013 sh.itjust.works vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-08
#70 · Quote Reply

Nature, as a whole, is a rapist, murderer, and cannibal far more often than not. Often all at once. Edit: But there are also Quokkas, so it kind of evens out.

I'd also point out the Capybara who while they do fight are chill like 90 percent of the time.

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late_pessimistic slrpnk.net late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-07-05
#71 · Quote Reply

dont ducks try to gangrape a female duck. i think capybara, koala, or sloth would be more better.

AFAIK koalas are rapists too. Living in the wild is brutal for every being, really

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HerbGrower slrpnk.net HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-07-09
#72 · (edited) Quote Reply

Fun fact, the English wiped out their yew trees to make longbows

We still have them, though I do suspect a lot fewer than would be there naturally. We have now wiped out almost all of our woodland in general.

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dropdrip lemmy.ml dropdrip@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-04-19
#73 · Quote Reply

When I was a kid I was horrified by the idea of oblivion; just one day your body is too worn out to ever let you wake up again and you just don't, no dreams, no fate, no long tunnel of light. Not even sitting around waiting for something, but going back to the place I was for all the thousands of years before I was born; not being at all. I swear, the older I get the more and more attractive th...

As a child I was suspicious of death. What is it? One moment you're alive and the next you're not. I reasoned that it must be a state of non-existence, just as was my state before my birth. I could not know that though. One moment I'm not alive and the next I am. As far as I knew one person died and another was born. If I were to die I might just be born again somewhere else. I was horrified: we're trapped. I never wanted to be alive. I am compelled to be. I do feel trapped. I'm plagued by procrastination in every aspect of my life. If I could choose I would choose to have never existed. I see life as a mistake.

Abstract absurdities such as Buddhism (below commentator mentioned it) have taken on a different quality as I age. I would have mocked such absurdity as a child--and I was often confused about people's fascination with fantasy (religions)--but time has given it a context. Life's absurd and if everything's absurd nothing is.

I would embrace death if I could get their fast, without this body refusing so completely. I think it's a fact that there's more suffering than pleasure in all aspects of life.

Everything I perceive is full of contradictions: if you were to love a partner you'd never wish childbirth upon them; to force pain upon them willingly and to put them at risk of death itself during childbirth. Every child is a mistake.

I feel there's two-parts to us. One that has a type of abstract logic and the other that has a real logic. They're at constant odds with each other. Some people are controlled more by one than the other, but no one is content in any capacity.

Because it's such a taboo topic I have no grounded reference, but I do wonder if everyone would rather not have existed.

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paraproto szmer.info paraproto@szmer.info
Joined: 2026-09-10
#74 · Quote Reply

At least the animals are just trying to survive and procreate, rather than hoard more wealth than they can consume in a lifetime.

Think of invasive species or whatever happens when a balance in nature is toppled. If they would be able to hoard more wealth they would do it.

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Tabula_stercore lemmy.world Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-19
#75 · Quote Reply

He got reincarnated as a violent rapist?

Yes, with a corkscrew penis

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not lemmy.dbzer0.com not@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-28
#76 · Quote Reply

Meanwhile ducks are over here raping each other and they have crazy spiral dicks.

He became a male duck...

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SkunkWorkz lemmy.world SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-26
#77 · (edited) Quote Reply

dont ducks try to gangrape a female duck. i think capybara, koala, or sloth would be more better.

Koalas are literally smooth brained and have chlamydia. Like they are so stupid that they don’t even recognize eucalyptus leaves (their favorite food) if the leaves aren’t hanging on the tree and you put the leaves on a plate in front of the koala.

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Akasazh lemmy.world Akasazh@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-24
#78 · Quote Reply

Shake a treat bag near a fat dog and see what happens.

He's try to eat it all, but he will not board hundreds thousands of times what he can possibly eat.

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saimen feddit.org saimen@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-09
#79 · Quote Reply

If you secularize the idea of rebirth, removing any idea of cosmic justice, all you have is a hypothetical naturalistic process. What you'll be reborn as will depend on what's being born, and the odds don't look so great.

I can actually secularize the idea of cosmic justice. I can totally imagine the idea of karma being a completely mechanistic process, just extremely complicated and convulated involving multiple other dimensions.

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bertlewirth lemmy.world bertlewirth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-15
#80 · Quote Reply

He got reincarnated as a violent rapist?

The duck is trump??

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#81 · Quote Reply

I can actually secularize the idea of cosmic justice. I can totally imagine the idea of karma being a completely mechanistic process, just extremely complicated and convulated involving multiple other dimensions.

Have you watched The Good Place?

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saimen feddit.org saimen@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-09
#82 · Quote Reply

Have you watched The Good Place?

No

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duckCityComplex lemmy.world duckCityComplex@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
#83 · Quote Reply

Simple but beautiful artwork on this one, especially the "reincarnate-o" panel.

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explodicle sh.itjust.works explodicle@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-04-11
#84 · Quote Reply

And they all think they are extremely original and creative. Like a bunch of yellow snow flakes.

I predicted that you would say that.

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Honytawk discuss.tchncs.de Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2026-02-20
#85 · Quote Reply

Plot twist: He's reincarnated as a duck in a duck farm.

At least it will be quack quick

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diaphragmwp discuss.tchncs.de diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2026-06-03
#86 · Quote Reply

dos unoooooo crows who mow

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-06-11
#87 · Quote Reply

No

Well without spoiling anything, it sounds like it might be right up your alley.

Very funny and very thought provoking. They get pretty in the weeds at times about how something like "secular" karma-like system might work, and how the complexities of the modern world would make it essentially unworkable.

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Smoogs lemmy.world Smoogs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
#88 · Quote Reply

Plot twist: He's reincarnated as a duck in a duck farm.

Where you're a slave but you dont have to do squat and they feed you and you dont have to pay them a dime. Then die before you're life is over before you become a trapped burden to yourself and everyone around you.

Unlike this life where you are a slave and have to scrape together to feed yourself and them...then you cant just simply die. no simple release. you must wither away.

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Smoogs lemmy.world Smoogs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
#89 · Quote Reply

There's no reincarnation and no afterlife. But comparison of human's life and duck's one made me thinking about it for a brief moment. Nah, human life is generally better and much more sophisticated. But yes, ducks don't have to think about so much things.

There's no reincarnation and no afterlife.

less a fact and more a point of view just like everything else in which we can't possibly know while in this form of perspective.

almost like its intended in such a way so we can question our own ego on such things.

but what do i know?

nothing.

just like you.

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cinoreus lemmy.world cinoreus@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-20
#90 · Quote Reply

Forget duck, give me life of an Orca. It checks every single checkbox for a fun comfortable life.

  1. Endangered: humans won't fuck with them
  2. Intelligent: one of the most intelligent animals on this planet
  3. Apex predator: we kinda take this for granted. I dont wanna spend my life being chased by hawks.
  4. No mosquito
  5. They have great social life
  6. I'm giant, I fuck with fishes, mom doesn't tell me anything cause she too is fucking with the fishes
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AnimalsDream slrpnk.net AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-06-29
#91 · Quote Reply

I can actually secularize the idea of cosmic justice. I can totally imagine the idea of karma being a completely mechanistic process, just extremely complicated and convulated involving multiple other dimensions.

Karma has been interpreted that way, as basically just cause and effect in the field of human ethics. It's also extremely misunderstood by virtually everyone in the west.

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qyron sopuli.xyz qyron@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-08-19
#92 · Quote Reply

Nope. Get me back to the starting point but grant me my memories from my past life.

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Zink programming.dev Zink@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-08-08
#93 · Quote Reply

Forget duck, give me life of an Orca. It checks every single checkbox for a fun comfortable life. Endangered: humans won't fuck with them Intelligent: one of the most intelligent animals on this planet Apex predator: we kinda take this for granted. I dont wanna spend my life being chased by hawks. No mosquito They have great social life I'm giant, I fuck with fishes, mom doesn't tell me anythin...

I am reading #4 saying "oh my god" while looking like the dude in the anti-AI memes who is stunned when the computer says what he told it to say.

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Fart Armpit lemmy.world GoldAxolotl@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-18
#94 · Quote Reply

There's no reincarnation and no afterlife. less a fact and more a point of view just like everything else in which we can't possibly know while in this form of perspective. almost like its intended in such a way so we can question our own ego on such things. but what do i know? nothing. just like you.

It's also your imo
And i know precisely that i know nothing and never enough. But critical thinking is a nice practical skill to develop in this life, so i'm sticking with it. It helps at decision making like a lot. It also helps out in various other things.
Deal with it 😁

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TransNeko lemmy.world TransNeko@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-24
#95 · Quote Reply

AFAIK koalas are rapists too. Living in the wild is brutal for every being, really

so what you are saying is that men are like Koalas. too stupid to see the truth and rapists pieces of shit.

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Smoogs lemmy.world Smoogs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
#96 · Quote Reply

It's also your imo And i know precisely that i know nothing and never enough. But critical thinking is a nice practical skill to develop in this life, so i'm sticking with it. It helps at decision making like a lot. It also helps out in various other things. Deal with it 😁

ditto.

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deathmetal27 lemmy.world deathmetal27@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-04
#97 · Quote Reply

Meanwhile ducks are over here raping each other and they have crazy spiral dicks.

Here's my reminder to re-watch Scientifically Accurate Duck Tales.

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Carrots quokk.au Carrots@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-09-30
#98 · Quote Reply

Duck life with climate change. Life is a bitch.

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