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Life eats Life

  • We tend to see life as reproduction, as creation of other life: living things make other living things.
  • But life is also the opposite: destruction of other life.
  • In order to grow and reproduce, living things eat other living things.
  • Life eats life.
  • There is no life that doesn't destroy other life.
  • Unless you get cremated, millions of worms will eat your body.
  • Life's mission is to eat life. At the same time, life's mission is to be eaten by life.
  • The meaning of your life is simple: to be eaten.
  • Living things eat living things to make more living things that will eat other living things to make living things that will eat...