Subnostr

yes but headcrabs were a parasitic organism that functioned like parasitic wasps do with their beetle prey who they took control of their nervous system and then laid eggs in them.

it's not for nothing that they call Satan the Lord of the Flies. many of his gambits are basically parasitic. actually, all of them are, the dude is a parasite, and all parasites are his servants.

Comte de Sats Germain 7mo ago

That's part of why I take the "gnostic" cosmologies seriously. Its pretty obvious that its parasitism all the way up and all the way down, in a never ending fractal that overlays the base fractal pattern of consciousness and matter. I don't go as far as some of them do when they say we're worshipping the wrong god - but Satan would do everything possible to be mistaken for God because he tries to copy God. Whether that's inherent in reality or just a product of sin is the point I'm unsure about. There's tons of biblical support for the notion that this isn't the real reality, that its just as "fallen" as we are, and if its true that consciousness comes before matter, then the fallen state of man would equal the fallen state of matter. Is it physically possible to construct a reality without parsitism and predation? Would I be able to conceive of it, given that I exist within this paradigm? How much of parasitism is a product of time? Could there be a restoration, a reversal of the degeneration of ages, while still having the experience of selfhood?

Mmm... Welcome to the inside of my crazy mind...

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

every living thing has to eat but parasitism... i mean, parasites live on you and inside you, and they don't benefit you.

lichen is algae and bacteria helping each other out.

humans herding sheep, goats and cattle is not parasitism, the animals pretty much live their natural life under protection and instead of tearing them apart slowly we kill them with precision, and honor every part of them, feeding our plants, wearing their skins, ornamenting our walls with their horns.

most of the stuff that lives inside us is not parasitic, it is a mutual benefit between us and them.

it kinda contradicts the whole nihilistic heat death of the universe model of reality that living things generally are helping each other. the parasites are outliers. probably a great deal of relationships between life forms are actually about crowding out the space where parasites might be.

not only are they cheap and fake they are depressing.

Comte de Sats Germain 7mo ago

And, perhaps, a parasite can become an ally if it can make a slight change in behavior. Lichen and algae might have begun as a parasitic relationship, and same with cells and mitochondria.

I just reject the notion of the heat death of the universe entirely. Its nihilistic, and also based on the dumbest assumption ever - that we know enough about physics to make such a claim.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

yeah, the heat death thing. like electrons have no say in the matter, at minimum. lol