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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.
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.
I'm pretty sure that's what you said last time.
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.
+1 for blue jay, they are auspicious.
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
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.
Would I be limited to life on this planet? I wouldn't mind having a go as some alien lifeform on some distant planet.
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.
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.
Nothing. I suffered for a lifetime as the dominant species on the planet.
Leave me in the void, please.
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.
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
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.
D:
Humans don't treat animals well enough.
Capybara would be legit. Chill with everyone. Just eat and swim all day.
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.
Sea turtle
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.
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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Mountain lion. Just chilling in the mountains, napping for 14 hours a day, occasionally sneaking up on a deer, they have life figured out.
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.
I would simply embrace my new source of food and make sure the bodies aren't found.
Eat the rich!
cat
A duck. I get to walk swim and fly!
Lore-accurate Lilith cause she seems nice.
Biblical or Diablo 4?
Little bit of this, little bit of that.
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.
A lesbian couple's cat. Do you really need an explanation?
Sloth. Minimal change necessary
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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An olive tree. They look cool and I don't want any amount of consciousness.
Can I come back as a black hole?
Boring answer: human
Because I really appreciate sapience
In order
The other sex A different race A dachshund
