re: Does anyone believe that earth is actually a living being and we are but fleas?

Ive had this thought before.

I've had the thought that we are the descendants of aliens. We are fricking weird, even compared to monkeys.

I've had the thought that we were dropped here to produce something the earth needed. What are we producing? No idea

I've had the simulation thought.

Ive wasn't able to explain it coherently as a kid, but I've also wondered if there were people or more advanced animals before us. Before the earliest record of humans. Like, when the earth was only 1 billion years old, maybe there was some sort of animal that would put us to shame but a superior alien life force came and wiped them and all Traces of their existence away.

I've thought maybe the planets are animals, difference species, and the earth is a sort of animal that, when it gets old enough, gets humans. Like we can get shingles.

I've thought what if we are just in a really big cell in a world that is the same as ours in every way.

Plus many others. They are all fun thought experiments to have.

It also makes me laugh when people talk shite about roaches or mosquitos. "they don't do anything productive" as if they are some worthless creature, not realizing that we don't do anything productive either. Nothing productive that has to do with any animals other than ourselves. The closest is population control of other animals, but even that is centered around what we deem as appropriate.