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If you suddenly found yourself teleported into a Minecraft world, how scared of dying would you be compared to before? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

People don't grasp immortality and infinite time.

"High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed."

Hendrik Willem Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

yeah, but I could watch villagers and other enslaved mobs suffer for that time.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Man that's one old bird