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“existing for no clear reason”
So like every other life form we know of?
That looks like self-propeled bacon.
You found a MAGA voter
Imagine scientists declaring that you are not interesting enough to be technically alive and you have been officially kicked out.
The ocean’s condom.
Jellyfish are the ocean’s condoms. These are the ocean’s big punchy balloon things. Either way Spongebob is having a good weekend.
it doesn’t even have a hole in the sense that it’s for an entrance and exit as a single hole through.
it’s literally just a cavity, like a trench
Ah, found reddit mods!
No clear reason? It’s because the thing can successfully make more of itself before dying. That’s literally it.
See also: ticks
Yeah man but does God have a Divine plan for him? Or does he just like have to make his own way? Or is his entire life just like a cosmic accident and it makes no difference if he lives or dies?
No animal has reason to exist.
*nothing has
As an animal myself, I’d like to object.
Okay, we’re listening. First establish some framework of “reasons to exist” so we understand what that even means, and then tell us yours. Centuries of philosophy haven’t gotten past the first step and you probably won’t either, but I won’t stop you from trying. Okay, go.
Sending memes in the group chat
Maybe i dont wanna share mt reasons ;((((
Okay but you could still do step 1 without revealing anything personal. Tell us: what even is a “reason to exist?”
One could be to be there to bring the trash cans back in after gc
Damnit! Who let Socrates in here again? /gets broom and starts pushing
Shoo! Begone philosopher! Nobody likes your kind!
Because not existing is …
…where we all come from and where we’re all going!
exists for no clear reason
Sounds like Humans
Sounds like everything, if you’re leaning nihilist.
Nihilists! Fuck me! I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism Dude, at least it’s an ethos!
Nine year olds, man!
Trump? that you?
It also only has one hole, which, if you ask some topologists, is what humans have.
I thought most humans are 7 holes
Mouth, Anus, Nasal Passages (2), Occular passages (2), Aural passages (2) = 8. -1 for topology reasons (one “hole” is a divot, not a tube, and a divot is topologically equivalent to a smooth surface) = 7.
Math checks out. (EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ )
I would post the human floss video. But it seems to be lost media. It was of a guy who got extra strength floss, tied it to one of his teeth, and one end to a pen lid… Swallowed the entire roll. Found the lid days later, and then pulled it back and forth, to floss himself. The video would be +10 years old.
Seems dangerous. There are sections where you wouldn’t want the floss pulled taut, and certainly not the whole thing.
I wonder if it was just a magic / fx video; at least the “to floss himself” bit.
I just remembered the name. But searching it up just gives reddit posts with dead links. It was called “full body floss.” All the the youtube links are dead. But I wouldn’t recommend trying to do.
Well, there’s the one obvious one - mouth through to the anus, there may be more openings to that hole, but I don’t believe any of them go all the way through.
That changes the topology though. It does go all the way through a section which prevents it from reshaping into a straw/donut
Yes. I’m afraid I’m not a real topologist, so we’re at their mercy. Let us pray they don’t come up with new holes.
Donut be afraid my fellow fleshtube.
Two more out the nose
They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though. At least a part of them…
I think I said in another comment that I’m not an actual expert on this matter. So there may well be more holes in this theory, and person.
They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though.
Yes, but they’re distinct openings, which means we’re not topologically equivalent to a doughnut when you take them into account. Topological equivalence implies that you can transform one object into another without changing the number of openings. Classic example is a doughnut and a coffee mug (the handle of a coffee mug is the opening). A human would be equivalent to a doughnut with two holes poked through the side into the middle.
Return to donut.
If you really think about it, humans are just donuts without the frosting or the sprikles.
We’re the rejects in the donut display.
Our frosting is on the inside.
It’s disturbing to me that so many people search for what something is used for or what’s the value or right to life a creature has. The point of life is to live. If you are successful you maybe make a child or split into a copy of yourself when you get enough food.
Purpose is something you accept for yourself. Imposing it on others is diabolically evil when they don’t have a thing to do with your clade. And still, it would be the case that a person would look at an animal and say “what’s the point of you?”
I also find that to be a weird question to consider, as though something must have a purpose to be worthy of existence
In that vein, what is the point of humans? To bring on the 6th mass extinction?
We’re really trying, aren’t we?
I think try is the wrong world, pretty sure we’ve succeeded, the question now is “Does anything survive?”
<3
Has no organs
Looks inside…
…organs.
is there a poop hole?
No but also yes
There’s a hole
Topologically speaking, no. This is clearly a sphere.
Hang on, is a sphere just a torus that poops out it’s mouth?
I am not speaking topoligically I am talking about the poop hole
As the old saying goes anyway
yeah, the mid-ventral butt opening
The sign on the outside says “Entry ^” and the sign on the inside says “Exit ^”
It truly has one hole, in that it eats, has a digestive sack, and then vomits the poop
vomits the poop
have had norovirus, know that feel
If the hole doesn’t go through, it is only a pocket, typographically identical to a plate.
*topologically
(Typography is text font stuff)
maybe they meant
O
As in “topographically”, which specifically refers to land surfaces?
Edit: For the record, each of the following refers to a completely different thing:
- Typography: fonts & stuff
- Topography: land surfaces
- Typology: classification
- Topology: mathematics of objects and their geometric and morphological properties
I know. I was joking. It’s a visual pun on how a feeding tube of the creature, a dinner plate and the capital O would look similar- hence typographical.
Nice
Meh. I’ll own my mistake. Silly autocorrect
Well we’re just doughnuts.
Why is the digestive sack not an organ?
Organs are a distinct structure made of multiple tissues. So if this thing is just a few layers of tissue, then you can make the argument that the whole creature is essentially a single-organ organism.
Truth be told, I suspect there is a certain amount of hyperbole in the infographic.
Kinda like a 2 stroke engine. The fuel and the exhaust all just mix.
It’s gross, but I can’t see any reason this disqualifies it from being on the tree of life.
Exist for no reason? All life has a purpose, and that is to poop. The excrement speaks for itself.
It sounds like it doesn’t have a poop hole
Edit: oh, nevermind. “For food to enter and exit”
Poop is subsistence, Sex is persistence
Time to wake up and go to work in the shit factory!
I don’t think any natural thing exists for a reason. That’s reserved for things made or at least caused by sentient beings.
It’s the roomba of the sea
