This question has been bothering me a lot tonight. The average fly lives for weeks I believe. Do you think flies are aware that they're not here for long and do you believe the thought depresses them?
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Do flies know they don’t live very long?
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Look at it this way.
The average human life span is 80 years. There's tortoises that live to be up to 150.
Do you think tortoises think that humans have short life spans.
To a fly (if they have a concept of time), time would be different. Just like how 80 years to us, is different then a 150 year old tortoise.
The average human life span is 80 years. There's tortoises that live to be up to 150.
Do you think tortoises think that humans have short life spans.
To a fly (if they have a concept of time), time would be different. Just like how 80 years to us, is different then a 150 year old tortoise.
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Okay. I'm assuming you're being sarcastic. Your opinion on my other threads should not have any bearing on how you respond to my current one and being snarky just serves to make you look rude.
Think what you may, but I looked at your thread history and realized that I have been entertained by many of them. Keep 'em coming
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Not all of them, but flies are the only ones that can cross the Chrono Gate, where the Time Flies maintain history and see that it is not disrupted by time travelers.
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Bees are known to have heart attacks due to the stress of knowing their lives will be short combined with their overall busyness.
A fly probably has the ability to be depressed as much as a calculator can play Playstation 4 games.
Flies do not think or get depressed like us, they lack the chemicals and complexity. They're driven by instinct, rather then thought or emotion, and respond only to their senses and what they can detect in their environment.
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You can't really say that about someone without living in their shoes.
Somewhere out there is a depressed fly having a therapy session with some higher understanding bee.
I doubt many creatures below humans understand the concept of life, let alone any insects.
But just to be safe you should invest in a fly depression foundation. Spread awareness.
But just to be safe you should invest in a fly depression foundation. Spread awareness.
did you know that alligators/crocodiles don't die naturally
They always die of starvation and/or something else, but never of old age.
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It's a condition crocodiles lack. Basically, they don't die of old age. But as they get bigger and they keep growing, then they'll either get hunted, killed by another predator, or die of starvation.
They always die of starvation and/or something else, but never of old age.
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It's a condition crocodiles lack. Basically, they don't die of old age. But as they get bigger and they keep growing, then they'll either get hunted, killed by another predator, or die of starvation.
Emotions are observed in humans and other mammals because we have chemicals in the brain triggering feelings. Flies don't have any of these chemicals, and hence no feelings. They literally don't possess the physical means of this.
What you are describing is your perspective of this scenario and projecting your thoughts and emotions onto the flies.
I actually managed to learn something interesting in this thread.
I thought "dying of old age" is just a common way of understanding numerous complications that eventually build up and kill off a person, and from a medical standpoint death by old age doesn't actually happen.
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