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1. Snail Enthusiast (snailenthusiast@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 06:12:26 JST Snail Enthusiast
   >Nature: Thou forgettest that the life of the world is a perpetual cycle of production and destruction, so combined that the one works for the good of the other. By their joint operation the universe is preserved. If either ceased, the world would dissolve. Therefore, if suffering were removed from the earth, its own existence would be endangered.
   
   >Icelander: So say all the philosophers. But since that which is destroyed suffers, and that which is born from its destruction also suffers in due course, and finally is in its turn destroyed, would you enlighten me on one point, about which hitherto no philosopher has satisfied me? For whose pleasure and service is this wretched life of the world maintained, by the suffering and death of all the beings which compose it?
   
   >Whilst they discussed these and similar questions, two lions are said to have suddenly appeared. The beasts were so enfeebled and emaciated with hunger that they were scarcely able to devour the Icelander. They accomplished the feat however, and thus gained sufficient strength to live to the end of the day.
   
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/52356/pg52356-images.html#DIALOGUE_BETWEEN_NATURE_AND_AN_ICELANDER
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   • Snail Enthusiast (snailenthusiast@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 06:19:27 JST Snail Enthusiast

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     • weissrespecter
     @weissrespecter Immovable object (philosophical pessimism) vs unstoppable force (fat anime tits)
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   • weissrespecter (weissrespecter@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 06:19:28 JST weissrespecter

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     @snailenthusiast I ain't reading all that, but Siege sure has some NFTs (Nice Fat Tits) lol