• Zozano@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    Fun fact, the whole thing about suicide preventing you from getting into heaven wasn’t in the bible.

    That was made up by the Vatican after they realised people would have no reason not to.

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      7 months ago

      Unfun fact: most fledglings die within their first decade of unlife, and for Clan Tremere, the leading cause is suicide. I guess being forced to join an opressive, hypercompetitive, top-down, strict academic organization is hard to deal with, while you also have to deal with the grim realities of your vampire existence.

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    Humans really got a raw deal, existentially speaking. We can’t come to terms with our mortality without making shit up, we can’t philosophically justify not committing suicide, and we couldn’t even deal with an infinite existence as vampires or in heaven. It makes me think… What if we’re not actually meant to accept or process anything? What if our best existence is to refuse things the way they are?

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      7 months ago

      This is (kind of) what The Buddha said. Life isn’t as much a problem to be solved as it is something to win freedom of, and one that you can’t just kill your way out of due to cyclic rebirth.

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      7 months ago

      can’t philosophically justify not committing suicide

      Albert Camus would like to have a chat with you.

      What if our best existence is to refuse things the way they are?

      Srsly, read Camus.

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      7 months ago

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    7 months ago

    On the more short term. Immortal and hot as shit for eternity… Humans slowly getting taller on average over the centuries.

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      7 months ago

      But if you’re hot as shit for eternity, you must either magically adapt over time, or are permanently the standard of attraction that is the driving force of evolution.

      Suddenly every dating app says, “don’t bother if you’re over 5’8”

    • Godric@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      You literally can use your blood and experince to become hotter. Who fucking cares if you’re a 1.5 metre tall goblin motherfucker if you’ve spent the last two centuries perfecting your Rizz, or if you can make yourself supernaturally sexy?