Does it have to get up after four hours sleep to work all day and go to IKEA at the weekend or does it just mess around it's whole life in a warm ocean eating seafood and thinking gentle echinoid thoughts.
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Until it gets torn apart and eaten alive by something else, literally dying by getting chewed to death - pretty much the way of nature.
In the end the world chews us all up and we die screaming and alone in our heads. Have a nice Sunday evening.
Noo😨
Oh I won't be alone. My farts got the police called on me when I was alive how bad do you think they will be when I die
That nature thing sounds bad. Can we get rid of it?
More like I must consume everything thoughts
I'll do you one better:
Imagine you're born and you're a crab who parasitizes the rectum of one of these.
Imagine you're a human who pays top dollar to consume its gonads.
ahem
I could go look this up, but frankly, it's your job now: elaborate, please.
The Japanese delicacy "uni" is urchin gonads
I'll be honest, I like it. It has a soft texture, nice mild buttery flavour, and can be incorporated into various dishes though is commonly eaten on its own as sashimi.
Yep, I love it too.
(I really miss living near Little Tokyo)
That's a good idea, thanks dude. I am going shopping at ours next week
Excellent!
there are some scifi biological spaceships, they look cool and amazing.
but using then is akin to being those rectal parasites.
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I wouldn’t know anything else so I wouldn’t care.
Imagine you're the first person to actually get reincarnated, and you return as this with all knowledge of your previous life.
pure fucking bliss
Meaning that I just need to chill and feed from particles from the water instead of having to slave myself off for wage so a billionaire could dream of going Mars while trying to destroy the very planet we currently live. Don't know what to think, but in Spike's place I'd think that we actually need to do is a revolution!
Oh, that's kiki
Definitely not bouba
You have no fear. There'd be no point to it. All your defenses are passive. Fear is meant to inspire sudden action. You're incapable of that, so your kind discarded that emotion millennia ago.
While holding that exquisite level of peace in your tiny mind, a fisherman plucks you out of the water so some rich dude can eat your gonads.
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I think I will be okay because I wouldn't have a nervous system that can think at that level, porbably
I don't appreciate having my photo posted without my permission, Isaac.
I'm unintentionally the social version of that 
Imagine you're born and you're this
But then I could go around asking "what do you want?" with a suspicious smirk in my face!
Ever see the underside of these on a fishtank side?
I did once at a fish pet store.
I remember it looking like a hundred tiny suction cups.
But I can't seem to find a good photo. This was the best I could find. Check out a real one if you get a chance.
It’s the mouth and the anus!
Not having to go to work.
Apparantly these are a local delicatesse in some regions..
So we caught one with the mindset to see if we could barbecue it and when we placed it on the table it started to move and wiggle its needles.
We originally thought it was similar to fungi, technically not plant but pretty much a plant… we quickly brought it back to the ocean.
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Based
don't threaten me with a good time
Envy is a sin dude! Who wouldn't want to look this metal and NOT pay rent?
You can do both today
If I am correct about my cosmological theory.
We will all have a turn.
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....I'm literally about to travel there for the first time.....wish me luck
Edit: Made it! What an ending man! Buying me a soundtrack FORESURE
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Could be worse. You could be born whatever that thing is, but without the protective spikes.
I'd name them Fluffles
Imagine looking like a demonstration of magnets with iron shavings
*makes the noise of a catcalling porcupine
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