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Imagine the joy that exists in nature at any given moment. Billions and trillions of creatures in various states of ecstasy, happiness, and contentment. Then mu

Imagine the joy that exists in nature at any given moment. Billions and trillions of creatures in various states of ecstasy, happiness, and contentment. Then multiply all those experiences for every time frame back to the first organisms. I don't think people think about the implications of a billion years of the vast experiences life has to offer.

dijit 5y ago
That’s certainly optimistic. When I think of nature I think of the horrible dilemmas: wolves starving, circling a new mother and her cub. I think of pestilence, the urgent near insatiable need to find food, stave off predators and yet somehow extol endless energy to mate.
- etxm 5y ago
  You should talk to a therapist.
  - dijit 5y ago
    It’s slightly rude to suggest that I have issues with my mental health because I watch nature documentaries. It does not make me miserable to think of these things, it’s just life. Life is struggle for the majority of living things with brief intermissions of contentedness- if you think otherwise you’re only kidding yourself (although it doesn’t harm anyone by living that delusion.) David Attenborough pulls few punches when showing how brutal the food chain is. Keeping your kids safe means others starve. This goes for plants too, it’s surprisingly easy to empathise with tragedies that occur to other species, including flora and fauna.
    - etxm 5y ago
      Pumps the brakes, my dude, it was a joke.
  - dang 5y ago
    Please don't do this here. It does no good and only makes threads worse. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22internet%20psychiatric%20diagnosis%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
    - etxm 5y ago
      It wasn’t a diagnosis, it was a referral.
      - dang 5y ago
        If you keep posting unsubstantive/flamebait comments, we're going to have to ban you. It looks like you've been doing a lot of that, which is not cool. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

dijit 5y ago

That’s certainly optimistic. When I think of nature I think of the horrible dilemmas: wolves starving, circling a new mother and her cub. I think of pestilence, the urgent near insatiable need to find food, stave off predators and yet somehow extol endless energy to mate.

etxm 5y ago
You should talk to a therapist.
- dijit 5y ago
  It’s slightly rude to suggest that I have issues with my mental health because I watch nature documentaries. It does not make me miserable to think of these things, it’s just life. Life is struggle for the majority of living things with brief intermissions of contentedness- if you think otherwise you’re only kidding yourself (although it doesn’t harm anyone by living that delusion.) David Attenborough pulls few punches when showing how brutal the food chain is. Keeping your kids safe means others starve. This goes for plants too, it’s surprisingly easy to empathise with tragedies that occur to other species, including flora and fauna.
  - etxm 5y ago
    Pumps the brakes, my dude, it was a joke.
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't do this here. It does no good and only makes threads worse. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22internet%20psychiatric%20diagnosis%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
  - etxm 5y ago
    It wasn’t a diagnosis, it was a referral.
    - dang 5y ago
      If you keep posting unsubstantive/flamebait comments, we're going to have to ban you. It looks like you've been doing a lot of that, which is not cool. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.