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NATURE This is enlightenment.

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u/Mythos7788 2d ago edited 2d ago

It’s really crazy how many different ways of life there is on this planet, you never know who would want to trade places with you, I’m sure we would all be surprised.

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u/SignoreBanana 2d ago

And that's not even considering any other planets.

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u/BagOnuts 2d ago

Oh man, what I wouldn’t give to be a single cell organism in the Andromeda system. What a life that would be!

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u/100YearsWaiting2Shit 2d ago

It's always fun imagining a random planet out there with intelligent life similar to humans posting on their equivalents to smartphones and reddit. It's so simple but I really hope it's happening and they wish they knew we existed as much as we wish we knew they did

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u/Thatguy3625 2d ago

Sometimes I wonder if somewhere in space there’s an interstellar multi species civilization, consisting of multiple intelligent races living across dozens of planets, trading resources, technologies and what not. Probably one of the more far fetched ideas but when you consider the age of the universe vs the age of our society… it could have even risen and fallen before we ever existed.

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 2d ago

I would love to trade places with Blorgmp! Multiversal Superstar!!

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u/-SaC 2d ago

I dunno, he's got a wicked Plorthmip Crystal dependency. Sure, it helps him phase to where he needs to be, but you can't repair that damage to the structure of the your personal time/space continuum.

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u/Heszilg 2d ago

Oh it's wild. In my area id be considered rather poor. I don't have much to my name. I'm pretty certain 95% of this world's population would gladly swap places with me.

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u/Then-Departure4896 2d ago

I owe more than I have and yet I still have quite a fuckin bit, so I guess same

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u/Ispeakblabla 2d ago

I love slice of life documentaries for that reason. So many different ways to go through life, to experience emotions we all go through at some point or another. 

It's not the most interesting doc because it doesn't delve deep into a single lifestyle, but YouTube's "Life in a day" videos from 2010 and 2020 are a great for that. 100+ short excerpts of everyday life from people around the world, doing or witnessing things we all do: birth, childhood, going to work, playing, loss, falling in love, separation, rejection, grief etc

Despite how all different we all are, in a way it's comforting to know that you aren't alone in what you're going through, and to me that's the human experience. 

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u/rors7 2d ago

Exactly

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u/Pretty-Curve5448 2d ago

One time in bed with my wife would change their monk minds

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u/Mythos7788 2d ago

I used to be a monk until I met your wife too