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And these facts are how you ruin reincarnation. You know how many passes you need to be human again? It’s a lot.

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This thought is kind of inspiring, in a “gratitude for what you have” way.

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But also… Imagine knowing that your child most likely was some amoeba in their previous life. Actually don’t do that.

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Your child was a single cell in this live.

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I like your headspace!

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Nooooooo! 😫

Imagine being reborn as some silly bacteria miles below the surface of the earth, though. 😖

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thanks for reminding me, i gotta stop accruing karma

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Hm, what are we taking now. Soul as a material construct? Wouldn’t fit into a worms nervous system. Soul as something incorporeal? Why stop at animals as smart as an object? Reincarnated into a cupboard?

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There are more living organisms in one tablespoon of people than there are people on earth.

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I’m sure of it but that ruins the pun.

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Nahhhh, depends entirely on where from. Digestive tract? Absolutely. Middle of a large muscle? Not by a long shot.

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Oh sure, apply this logic to the human body but soil gets a free pass. Enough of this online pro-soil/anti-human agenda.

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Average tablespoon then.

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Not by a long shot. Only the digestive tract has a ton of bacteria in it. Bacteria elsewhere is called an infection.

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There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system.

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2 > 1

This seems actually to be true.

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I approve this message

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This must be how all of your Shovel-centric romance novels read.

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the air smelled like loam

Bish, loam is a particle size distribution and has nothing to do with soil fertility directly

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That guys a pedo.1

1.Pedologist.

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TIL a new word. Thank you.

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