Stamets@startrek.website to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 8 months agoPerhapsstartrek.websiteimagemessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1909arrow-down125
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minus-squarePiecemakers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoYou aren’t the decaying body, you’re the reason it’s decaying… 🥹
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoYou are actively trying to destroy it as your body is continually trying to preserve itself … you are your own worst enemy.
minus-squarePiecemakers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoYou are both the reason it isn’t already rotten, and the reason it inevitably will be, no matter how hard you try.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoNeat the power of good and evil, yin and yang, the dead and the living … a constant balance between forces Where life may have momentary strength and periodically wins in the short term … death has stamina and plays the long game
minus-squarePiecemakers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoPerhaps, though that seems a perspective biased by living, while the other 99.999% of reality would consider all life to be a fleeting anomalous spark that arcs brilliantly before returning to the collective abyss.
You aren’t the decaying body, you’re the reason it’s decaying… 🥹
You are actively trying to destroy it as your body is continually trying to preserve itself … you are your own worst enemy.
You are both the reason it isn’t already rotten, and the reason it inevitably will be, no matter how hard you try.
Neat the power of good and evil, yin and yang, the dead and the living … a constant balance between forces
Where life may have momentary strength and periodically wins in the short term … death has stamina and plays the long game
Perhaps, though that seems a perspective biased by living, while the other 99.999% of reality would consider all life to be a fleeting anomalous spark that arcs brilliantly before returning to the collective abyss.