• Alien Nathan Edward
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    1 year ago

    The only danger here is the danger of crawling so far up your own asshole that you just pop entirely out of existence.

  • JokeDeity
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    1 year ago

    Meh. This whole thing is just one assumption after the other, like variable after variable have to line up for this. More silly than anything.

  • thrawn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A weird little thing, I like to sleep pondering mild existential concepts like these. Between this and reading BLIT and its sequels for the first time, basilisks (which I’d actually not heard of before) have given me much to think on tonight

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      11 months ago

      This is a perfect summary because they both seem to prove a really interesting point as long as you assume there’s no downside to dedicating your entire life to something only to find out that thing never existed.