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Can you imagine what a boring existence they must have? Live forever, and do almost nothing.


“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy


I consider that book/trilogy/fiveology to be canon and nothing can convince me otherwise


Well luckily for them, I’d imagine they don’t think too hard about it.


You're right, they should totally die much earlier from stress-related illnesses like the rest of us!


You can also think of it as calm bliss.


wu wei, nirvana, shanti, samadhi, fana, ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(Buddhism)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fana_(Sufism)

i gave two links, you guys can google the others.


If you like to imagine yourself as a fish you could do much worse than these guys! The male anglerfish comes to mind..


different strokes for boring folks - like you.




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