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[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

Yes, and it is such a good book series

“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And we are also born to pet that borzoi snoot 🥰

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wild telling me what I was born to do. I was actually born to give it head scratches.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Well that part's self evident 🤷

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Hey it’s Apollo the BORZOIIII 🎶

[–] Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Going off the other comments, this is not a masturbation metaphor and i must've missed something to get the reference

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

The breed of the dog in the picture is called borzoi 😁

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love the optimism, but some people are literally born just to die. Remember we're the lucky ones that get to grow and learn and love and live, and enjoy what you have while you can.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The tragedy is that I'm done loving, being joyous, moving, learning, crying, and feeling, and yet I remain

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How did you decide that you are done?

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Mostly inability and when I can, it hurts too much

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No.
We are born due to inevitable combination of events in infinite pseudo-randomness*. We are simply chaos processing energy to spread it out until there is no energy potential left.

*If the entire universe/multiverse (if it has an effect on our universe) could be accurately simulated, it would become predictable. Basically "fate", except there is no purpose.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

AFAIK Quantic indeterminacy means quantum randomness is real randomness (see Bell's theorem).

But it is the fact that it will end that gives our life meaning. If we didn’t know that it’ll end our lives would just be an endless loop where because it all happens nothing will matter. As Todd May says “One has a place in the cosmic process of which one’s own existence is a fleeting moment, but a moment nonetheless”

[–] agavaa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I will never unsee "does a bork start just to finish?".